Lotions

Lotion making: Altering the ingredients in a basic lotion (an infographic)

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I wanted to share this with you again to help you get started lotion making! With this formula and the instructions on how to make it, you can make dozens – if not hundreds – of variations to find the lotion you love the best! This is such a foolproof structure for a lotion!  Check out...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG (part three, using 1% emulsifier formulas)

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A white blob of lotion sits on a glass watch glass with a black background

Welcome to part three of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll be making a 1% formula using SEPILIFE™ NUDE or SIMULGEL™️ EG. The way I’m planning this series, we’ll start off by meeting the emulsifiers – which we did last week – then I’ll introduce a new base...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG (part two, about SIMULGEL™️ EG)

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Woo hoo! Welcome to part two of this new Formulating Friday series/course! I’m so unbelievably excited to share these awesome ingredients with you. I know you’re going to have great fun! These emulsifiers are some of my favourite ingredients as I can make a lotion in less time than it takes me to gather my...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG (part one). 

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Woo hoo! Welcome to part one of this new Formulating Friday series/course! I’m so unbelievably excited to share these awesome ingredients with you. I know you’re going to have great fun! These emulsifiers are some of my favourite ingredients as I can make a lotion in less time than it takes me to gather my...

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Let’s try a few different preservatives in a hand & body lotion formula to see how we would adapt them to not lose viscosity – Optiphen Plus formulas (part four)

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I thought I’d share some formulas to demonstrate what we covered in our short series on adding ingredients to the cool down phase of emulsions. In part one, we looked at why we added hydrolyzed proteins, mixed tocopherols, actives & cosmeceuticals, fragrance oils, and essential oils to the cool down phase along with some emulsion...

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