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Having trouble with Montanov™ emulsifiers? Here are my instructions for how to use them, some troubleshooting, and a place where you can ask questions or seek help! (Part one of a series…) 

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I hear all the time from people who want help with Montanov™ emulsifiers, but they rarely given me details beyond that it “failed” or “didn’t work”. I’d like to look at some things you can do to help you create awesome stable emulsions that’ll feel great on your skin! These aren’t hard emulsifiers to work...

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Let’s talk about costs of making products! Part four – altering the oils in an emulsified body butter (with formulas) after looking at sensory characteristics and other properties! Now with US and Australian costs!

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It's a photo of us making a body butter in a white bowl. The lotion is thick and creamy and white. We're using a hand mixer with one beater to mix it.

Welcome back to this short series in which we’re looking at making changes to our ingredients to create less expensive products, like anhydrous products and emulsions. In this post, we’ll look at making some more substitutions to the formula. And we’ll look at international costs from USA and Australia, which I’ve added to my spreadsheet....

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Let’s talk about costs of making products! Part three – altering the oils in emulsified body butters (with formulas)! 

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Welcome back to this short series in which we’re looking at making changes to our ingredients to create less expensive products, like anhydrous products and emulsions. In this post, we’ll look at substituting liquid oils for less expensive ones. We’ll consider the properties the oils bring to the body butter – like awesome fatty acids...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: Sepigel™ 305 and Sepiplus 400 (part one) – profile of Sepiplus 400

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A shot glass filled with a white, opaque, thicker liquid stands beside a bottle. The liquid is Sepiplus 400, a cold process liquid emulsifier.

Welcome to part one of this new series in which we’ll be making formulas using Sepigel 305 or Sepiplus 400! These awesome, liquid, cold process, non-ionic emulsifiers can make emulsions, gels, and gel-creams in less than 10 minutes using low/no shear mixing! Woo hoo! We met Sepigel 305™ (INCI: Polyacrylamide (and) C13-14 Isoparaffin (and) Laureth-7)...

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Let’s talk about costs of making products! Part two – emulsified body butters with formulas! 

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Welcome back to this short series in which we’re looking at making changes to our ingredients to create less expensive products, like anhydrous products and emulsions. In part one, we looked at the costs for an anhydrous whipped body butter using shea butter as the base. We took the cost of our shea butter based...

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