Lotions

I know I keep saying the same thing, but when you make a product for dry skin you want to make sure you’ve chosen appropriate occlusive ingredients – allantoin, dimethicone, or cocoa butter – along with good emollients that contain linoleic acid, gamma-linoleic acid, or conjugated linoleic acid and good humectants. You want these things...

If you’re the type who likes a less greasy feeling lotion, there are a few ways you can reduce that feeling in your lotion. Most of these options can be found in the heated oil phase as we switch one oil for another, one butter for another, and add a few esters and fatty alcohols....

Yesterday we took a look at at adapting the basic lotion recipe for dry skin by including lots of humectants, oils suitable for dry skin, and occlusive ingredients. But that was only one way of creating this lotion – there are quite literally hundreds of variations you could make just switching out one ingredient for...

Now that we’ve seen what ingredients we could use to create a lotion for dry skin, let’s take a look at creating a basic lotion with those ingredients. I’ll use my basic lotion recipe as the base for this product, but I’m adapting it to include humectants every single time for dry skin. (I generally...