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Having trouble with Montanov™ & Olivem 1000 emulsifiers? Let’s look at making our formulas less soaping by altering the structuring agents (part four, includes base hand & body lotion formula and modified formula)

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A photo of a bottle of lotion with "body butter" sitting on a white plate with a blue line. You can see the body butter is thick, rich, creamy, and off-white.

Today, in part four of this series, we’ll be looking at two formulas – one that soaps quite a bit and one that doesn’t – then we’ll compare and contrast them (because I know how much we loved doing that when we were in school, eh?) This post also applies to Olivem 1000 as they...

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Having trouble with Montanov™ & Olivem 1000 emulsifiers? What we know about the soaping effect and what we can do and some information on liquid crystal emulsions (part three)

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A pile of white, waxy Montanov™ 202 pellets. This is an emulsifier.

Welcome to part three of this series on working with Montanov™ emulsifiers! This post also applies to Olivem 1000 as they use similar emulsifiers as the Montanov™ series. In part one, we looked at the proper process to make one of these emulsions with example formulas. We learned the key is to follow the formula...

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Having trouble with Montanov™ emulsifiers? The soaping effect — why does it happen? (Part two)

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Welcome to part two of this series on troubleshooting Montanov™ emulsifiers. This post also applies to Olivem 1000 as they use similar emulsifiers as the Montanov™ series. In part one, we looked at the proper process to make one of these emulsions with example formulas. We learned the key is to follow the formula and...

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Important information: Please don’t use 2% rheology modifier or cold process emulsifier in warm process emulsion as it will make your formula fail (part one with formulas)!

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In the monthly Q&A, Rick asked, I don’t know if this question is too vague, but let’s try… I made a hand lotion using Olivem 1000 with cetyl alcohol and glyceryl stearate as stabilizers, a few oils, allantoin, panthenol, glycerin and FO, and I really liked it. Then I slightly modified it, subtracting 2% water...

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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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