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This is a picture of my sprayable serum (left) and my sprayable lotion (right). I wouldn’t put a facial moisturizer in a spray, because getting sprayed in the face isn’t that pleasant when it’s gooey. I do like a toner in a spray bottle, though. When I’m formulating a facial moisturizer, I generally start off...
Yesterday we took a look at making a light, sprayable lotion using BTMS as our emulsifier. Today we’ll take that basic recipe and add a few ingredients that might help with some of the issues we encounter in the summer time! Summer means heat, so I like to modify my lotions to be less occlusive...
You may remember way back when I started this series on conditioners, I mentioned that making a conditioner is a bit like making a lotion. You have a heated oil phase, a heated water phase, and a cool down phase. You’re making an emulsion with the BTMS or cetrimonium bromide. So let’s take a look at...
I’m really excited to see all the tutorials popping up around the ‘net for bath and body products – one day we’ll all be making our own stuff and the giant corporations will fall (insert evil genius laugh here) and we’ll all have lovely skin and shiny hair and overly white teeth that blind anyone...
I am asked all the time about how much emulsifier to use. If you are using Polawax, the general rule of thumb is to use 25% of the oil phase. So if you have 20% oil, you’d use 5% Polawax. If you have 30% oil, you’d use 7.5% Polawax. And so on. So why am...