Lotions

One ingredient, ten products: Sunflower oil in body butters

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Sunflower oil is a great addition to a body butter thanks to the – oh no, she’s going to mention it again!!! – linoleic acid, which helps speed up skin’s barrier repair mechanisms and reduces transepidermal water loss; oleic acid, which moisturizes and softens; and phytosterols, which reduce inflammation and itching. As I’ve just covered this subject in the One...

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One ingredient, ten products: Sunflower oil in a zinc oxide cream

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Sunflower oil is a great inclusion in any lotion or cream you might be making to help with broken skin thanks to all that lovely Vitamin E and linoleic acid, so I’m including it in my zinc oxide lotion. My lotion is based on this one – a light lotion with pumpkin seed oil –...

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One ingredient, ten products: Incroquat BTMS-50 in a body butter

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We’ve on the fifth product using Incroquat BTMS-50, and I thought we should take a look at body butters. Before we start, let’s define what we mean by a body butter first because there are a few products called body butters that we could create. What I mean by a body butter in this post...

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Weekend Wonderings: How do I figure out if I can use some ingredients as emulsifiers? Why add cetyl alcohol to a recipe with e-wax?

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HOW DO I FIGURE OUT IF I CAN USE TWO EMULSIFIERS TOGETHER?In this post, How do we make substitutions with our emulsifiers, Mette asks: I have some questions which I hope you can help me with. I am trying to make a baby lotion and I have Sucrose Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate and Cetearyl Alcohol on my hands. As...

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Simplifying a recipe: The oil phase of a body butter

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How many times have you encountered a recipe that sounds amazing, only to find out that you’re missing a few of the ingredients? You aren’t really sure why you need those ingredients, but you really want to make the awesome sounding lotion without having to wait the two to six weeks it’ll take to get...

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