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Last Friday we created the pomegranate and witch hazel moisturizer for men’s skin. and yesterday we made a green tea & bamboo facial moisturizer. Let’s modify the first moisturizer further from being a six ingredient moisturizer to one with some fancier ingredients. It’s incredibly easy to go nuts adding things to a moisturizer, so I’ll...
If you like silicones, Incroquat BTMS-50 should be your emulsifier of choice for lotions and moisturizers because it’s designed to handle high levels of cyclomethicone and dimethicone. (Check out the data bulletin on this ingredient for more information…) Why would we want to use silicones in a facial moisturizer? Dimethicone is moisturizing and skin conditioning,...
Let’s pause this series for a moment and look at a few combinations of ingredients we could use to tweak yesterday’s recipe for a facial moisturizer with Incroquat BTMS-50. Since I’ve written quite a few posts about tweaking the oil phase of our products – see yesterday’s post for that list – let’s take a...
Incroquat BTMS-50 is a great emulsifier for our emulsified products like moisturizers, lotions, creams, and body butters. It will emulsify quite a lot of oils, which means we can use less than we would with other emulsifiers, like Polawax. There is no rule of thumb with Incroquat BTMS-50, so we have to figure it out...
I recently tried some experimenting with a few new emulsifiers, Olivem 1000 and Montanov 68 (aka Sugarmulse at one supplier), and thought I’d share those experiences with you. These are new and interesting emulsifiers that create liquid crystal emulsions, which are quite different than the oil-and-water emulsions we’re accustomed to making with something like Polawax,...