Lotions

Esters: Using ethylhexyl palmitate in your creations – making a body butter with shea!

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I’ve said it a hundred times so far, but esters are a great way of increasing the feeling of dryness or reducing the feeling of greasiness, increasing the lightness and spreadability, and decreasing the thickness of your lotions or butters. So let’s take a look at a really greasy product – body butter with shea...

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Esters: Formulating with IPM and IPP

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I’m a big fan of both IPM and IPP – I generally add them at 2% in a lot of my creations to make it feel slightly less greasy (although I do like a greasier feeling lotion, IPP and IPM offer just enough reduction to stop me from leaving huge greasy fingerprints on my iPod...

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An aside…Using cationic quats in other products: Body butter

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If you’ve made an intense conditioner, you’re on the road to making a body butter! You’ve already made an emulsion using BTMS-50 as an emulsifier, and you’ve already done the heat and hold thing with your oil and water phases. You’ve learned how to add things in the cool down phase, and you’ve learned how...

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An aside…Leave-in conditioners become facial moisturizers

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This is a picture of my sprayable serum (left) and my sprayable lotion (right). I wouldn’t put a facial moisturizer in a spray, because getting sprayed in the face isn’t that pleasant when it’s gooey. I do like a toner in a spray bottle, though.  When I’m formulating a facial moisturizer, I generally start off...

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An aside…Leave-in conditioners become light lotions with extracts and hydrosols

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Yesterday we took a look at making a light, sprayable lotion using BTMS as our emulsifier. Today we’ll take that basic recipe and add a few ingredients that might help with some of the issues we encounter in the summer time! Summer means heat, so I like to modify my lotions to be less occlusive...

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