Lotions

I mentioned yesterday that increasing your thickening agents – like butters, fatty alcohols, and fatty acids – can make a lotion into a cream. Let’s take a look at a 60% water lotion without thickeners, then consider what it would be like with different thickeners. Here’s the recipe from which I will be working for...

As we’ve been working with the 70% water recipe and the 60% water recipe, you can see the main difference between the two tends to be the amount of butters to oils. In the 70% recipe, we use more oils than butters; in the 60% recipe, we tend to use more butters than oil (not...

Unfortunately, I’m in a rush this morning with two craft groups to prepare for today, so analyzing how to make yesterday’s cream drier will have to wait until the weekend!  Not all lotions with 60% water will end up as a body butter or foot cream. I make what I consider a very nice hand...

The recipe I posted yesterday for a foot cream can be modified in so many different ways, it would take us weeks just to get through those variations we could make using soybean oil as the main oil! It’s all about your preferences and supplies – what you see here reflects what I have in...

I find one of the quickest ways to turn a lotion into a cream is to substitute stearic acid for cetyl alcohol. Fatty acids tend to increase the thickness of our products better than the fatty alcohols, although you will experience a decrease in the slip and glide of the product and might even get...