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Newbie Tuesday: Making naturally compliant lotions with Ritamulse SCG (week nine) – hand lotion #3

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Welcome to week nine of our series about making naturally compliant lotions with Ritamulse SCG. If you want to play along, scroll to the bottom for links to all the previous posts.  In the first lotion, we used fractionated coconut oil plus a light, greasy oil.  In the second lotion, we used a light, greasy...

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Newbie Tuesday: Making naturally compliant lotions – an update to the schedule

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Hi everyone! I’m wondering if there’s any interest in re-starting the Newbie Tuesday lotion making series/course for Tuesday, April 14th with hand lotion # 3? I know we’re all going through some pretty heavy collective trauma right now. Whether you’re out of work, working from home, or working on the front lines, this pandemic is...

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10 minute lotions: Strawberry & honey yogurt parfait with Viscoptima SE

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A few weeks ago, we met one of my favourite new cold process oil-in-water emulsifiers, ViscOptima SE (INCI: Sodium polyacrylate, ethylhexyl cocoate, PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate, polysorbate 20), which you might find as GelMaker RHEO from Making Cosmetics. Next, we reviewed the ingredients we might use in a super hydrating, cold process, strawberry smoothie cream...

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Here are a few of my favourite lotion formulas!

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If your hands are anything like mine, they’re parched from all the hand washing and sanitizing. I use the mildest surfactants I can find at the lowest effective percentages combined with all kinds of wonderful emollients and conditioners, but even still they feel so cracked and sore. To prevent all kinds of dry skin, here...

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10 minute lotions: Hydrating strawberry smoothie with ViscOptima SE (part two, formula)

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On Monday, we met one of my favourite new cold process oil-in-water emulsifiers, ViscOptima SE (INCI: Sodium polyacrylate, ethylhexyl cocoate, PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate, polysorbate 20), which you might find as GelMaker RHEO from Making Cosmetics, and yesterday, we reviewed the ingredients we might use in a super hydrating, cold process, strawberry smoothie cream suitable...

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