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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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Let’s talk about costs of making products! Part one – whipped body butters

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A photo from above of three types of whipped butters in jars. The top is a whipped shea butter with green jojoba beads. The second, below, is a whipped refined shea butter. The third, beside the second, is a whipped unrefined shea butter.

I know things are getting tight financially for everyone, so I thought we could look at making some less expensive products, like emulsions and anhydrous products in January! In general, the most expensive products you’ll make will be anhydrous* ones – whipped butters, salves, balms, lip balms, facial oils and serums, beard oils, hair oils,...

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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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