Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part three): Product protecting ingredients! 

Welcome back to this four part series in which we’re making a shampoo filled with a veritable botanical bounty of fantastic ingredients for normal to oily hair! In part one, Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants!, we looked at what it meant to...

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Let’s talk about making substitutions for preservatives in my formulas! (Very long post!)

This is a long post that didn’t have a logical place to make cuts, so rather than spend time re-writing it, here’s a few days of posts in one!  For a while now, I’ve shared charts with you so you can make substitutions for the preservatives that you have in your workshop if you can’t...

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Let’s talk about potential restrictions on preservatives!

There may be restrictions on certain preservatives in your part of the world, something to keep in mind when you’re following formulas or creating new ones. I do my best to keep up to date on these things, but I can’t possibly know every single restriction outside of Canada or the USA because I only...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 8 Choosing product protection ingredients

Choosing product protection ingredients! Let’s look at the things we add to a formula to make sure they remain uncontaminated as we store or use them as well as those things that prevent oxidation of the ingredients, especially oils, which can lead to horrible smells and rancidity. Click here to see a longer post on...

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#alltheingredients: TRIstat PCG 90 (INCI: Phenoxyethanol (and) Caprylyl Glycol) – preservative

I’ve been very kindly sent three new preservatives from Voyageur Soap & Candle, and thought I’d share these with you to give you more options for all your product makin’ needs! This is the second one I’ve been using called TRIstat PCG 90! Yesterday, we met TRIstat SDHA FCC, NF! Click the link to learn...

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