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Welcome to this week’s Formulating Friday advanced lotion making series/course in which we’ll be modifying last week’s body butter to be a cream. In last week’s body butter post, I showed you how to modify the hand & body lotion to become a body butter by substituting butters for oils. In this week’s Newbie Tuesday...
Welcome back to our Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion making series, working with Incroquat BTMS-50. Last week, we made a body butter: This week, we’re modifying that cream to be a body butter! We’ll modify it further in this week’s Formulating Friday post by altering the size of the oil phase and recalculating the formula. Previous posts...
Welcome back to part three of this body butter formula. In part one, we reviewed the emollients we might like to use in this formula, including butters. In part two, we looked more closely at the emollients we could use and worked out a few ideas using the principles of combining emollients and the definitions for...
Welcome back to part two of this body butter formula. Yesterday, we reviewed the emollients we might like to use in this formula, including butters, so let’s put those into action today after taking a look at some other ingredients I’d like to include, like solid esters, liquid esters, silicones, and humectants. We’ll be using...
Welcome back to Formulating Friday! I thought I’d take this post or two to get into the concept of combining emollients to make choices for the Formulating Friday body butter formula we’ll be making on Friday. It’ll look like the Newbie Tuesday body butter formula with some changes, so keep that one in mind as...