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Let’s make a six ingredient lotion – an easily customizable kukui nut & babassu oil lotion with additional ingredients using Polawax or Natragem EW (part two) 

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A plastic beaker contains a white creamy lotion, it's a summer lotion with babassu oil, and it feels very nice. Not greasy at all.

Welcome to the six ingredient lotion challenge! The rules are simple – make a lotion using only six ingredients! I’m going to expand this into a series in January or February, but I thought I’d share this with you so you can get a sense of what it might be about along with a formula...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – increasing the viscosity by adding a structuring agent (part 8 with formulas and new instructions)

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A photo of three containers after packaging a cold process emulsion using SEPILIFE™ NUDE. The first beaker contains a bit of lotion with a black spatula. The second contains three small tottle bottles. The third has a blue spatula.

Welcome to part eight of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll look at how to increase the viscosity by adding oil-soluble solid-at-room temperature ingredients by creating a new heated oil phase for the formula. In our last post on November 29, 2025, we looked at increasing the viscosity...

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Let’s make a six ingredient lotion – an easily customizable kukui nut & babassu oil lotion with Polawax or Natragem EW (part one) 

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A Pyrex container with white creamy lotion in it

I’d like to turn this into a weekly series in January or February, so let’s take a look at the idea of making a simple six ingredient lotion using Polawax or Natagem EW today. I’d love to hear from you what you’d like to make, so please share your thoughts in the comments or message...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – increasing the viscosity by adding a butter (part 7 with formulas and new instructions)

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A white plastic weighing boat contains some cream coloured chunks of tucuma butter. The boat is sitting on a red tablecloth.

Welcome to part seven of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll look at how to increase the viscosity by adding oil-soluble solid-at-room temperature ingredients by creating a new heated oil phase for the formula. In our last post on October 31, 2025,  we looked at increasing the viscosity...

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Tips & techniques: How to substitute one oil or butter with another (including example formulas)!

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In any of the formulas I share with you here on the site, in my classes, or in my e-books, you can substitute any oil for any oil, any butter for any butter, any oil for any butter, or any butter for any oil and you will create something successful.* Your lotion will still be...

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