Why I don’t heat my ingredients in a microwave!

I’m asked all the time why I heat and hold my lotions a double boiler instead of using a microwave to melt our ingredients. There are a few reasons. I heat my ingredients for lotions in two separate containers: One for the heated water phase and one for the heated oil phase. I heat them to...

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Weekday Wonderings: What can we put into the cool down phase?

In this post, Learning to formulate: The cool down phase,  MSC asks: What is the maximum percentage of ingredients, specifically oils, that I can add in my cool down phase? I recently read that it is better not to heat Argan oil, which I would like to use. If I wanted 4% of my oil...

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What do you want to know? How can we control our heating and holding temperatures?

In the What do you want to know post, FC Brooks asks: My question has to do with the heating and holding part. It sounds important and useful: How exactly can you control the temperature to keep it stable for 20 minutes? There are many ways to keep the heated oil and heated water phases...

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