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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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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – adding some actives and increasing the emulsifiers (part 5 with formulas)

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Welcome to part five of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be creating a 2% emulsions with the humectants from last week with a few active ingredients, like panthenol, niacinamide, and allantoin. We’ll be adapting the formula to include a heated water phase as well. First, we’ll look...

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Let’s make a naturally compliant lotion with “fragile” oils in the heated phase – Olivem 1000

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A fluffy white lotion in a beaker. We used Olivem 1000 for this formula!

As there was quite a lot of interest in this post – Demythifying the myths: Fancy oils are not sensitive to heat – you can put them in the heated oil phase – and we had a great conversation over there about the topic, I thought we’d create a bunch of different awesome emulsified and anhydrous...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – all about humectants, part 4! 

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Welcome to part four of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be modifying the water phase of the 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG we met in part three. But first, let’s learn some skin chemistry! Are you playing along? Have you made anything yet? What...

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