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Potential duplication of Deva Curl Wash Day Wonder Pre-Cleanse Slip Detangler (part three) – the first formula

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Welcome back to what’s quickly becoming a series on this Deva Curl Wash Day Wonder Pre-Cleanse Slip Detangler! Part one – Obtaining the ingredient list, then reviewing it Part two – Figuring out what’s necessary in the formula, then finding the 1% or lower part of the ingredient list. Then we took a detour to...

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10 minute lotions: Strawberry & honey yogurt parfait with Viscoptima SE

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A few weeks ago, we met one of my favourite new cold process oil-in-water emulsifiers, ViscOptima SE (INCI: Sodium polyacrylate, ethylhexyl cocoate, PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate, polysorbate 20), which you might find as GelMaker RHEO from Making Cosmetics. Next, we reviewed the ingredients we might use in a super hydrating, cold process, strawberry smoothie cream...

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Simple esters: Creating lip balms with esters (part three) – testing the jars

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So far in this series we created a formula for a lip balm in which we can try different simple, solid esters, colours, and flavours, and then we created that formula and tested the lip balm in tubes. Today, let’s see how they perform in jars! Reviewing the lip balm in jars!  These jars contain...

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Simple esters: Creating lip balms with esters (part two) – testing the tubes

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If you want to catch up on this simple ester series, click here for the last post that has all the links to the previous parts!  Yesterday, we created a formula for a lip balm in which we can try different simple, solid esters, colours, and flavours. Today, let’s make that formula and see what...

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Simple esters: Creating lip balms with esters (part one) – the formula

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If you want to catch up on this simple ester series, click here for the last post that has all the links to the previous parts!  After making our lotion bars – click here for that post – we decided to try using these simple esters in a lip balm to see how the colour...

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