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Q&A: Liquid crystal emulsifiers? Is there a list of them? How to create a successful Olivem 1000 emulsion?

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In this month’s Q&A, Kristina asked, Happy June Susan! I’m have a quick question (I hope!) at one point I was using liquid crystal emulsifiers, now it’s hard to get a list of them – Olivem 1000, and Montano 68 (which has been sold out) are the only ones I can find when I search...

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Q&A: How do I use n-acetyl glucosamine in heated emulsions?

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In this month’s Q&A, Susan asked, Happy day to you! I’m hoping you could tell me how to add n-acetyl glucosamine to heated emulsion face lotions. All I’ve found is that it should be dissolved in water and added to a formulation below 50˚C. Since we’re heating to 70˚C to make the emulsion this would bring...

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Q&A: Why can this company include water in their sugar scrubs? Why doesn’t it dissolve the sugar? (Updated June 2022)

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In this month’s Q&A, Sehrish asked, I want to know that as it is said in sugar body scrub we should not add water based ingredient. So how tree hut’s body scrub is made i am just curious that how it is made in the ingredients list there are sugar, glycerine, poly 20, aqua, oil based ingredients...

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Q&A: Modifying a quick refreshing scalp spray – part three, creating a salicylic acid spray, then comparing the three formulas we’ve created (formula)

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Welcome back to this short series in which we’re modifying a formula for a quick spray refresher I created back in 2017 intended to soothe, protect, condition, moisturize, and cool annoyed, itchy, or otherwise perturbed scalps. In part one, we created a formula removing the ingredients Tiba didn’t want to use. In part two,  let’s...

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Q&A: Modifying a quick refreshing scalp spray – part two, working with salicylic acid 

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Welcome back to this short series in which we’re modifying a formula for a quick spray refresher I created back in 2017 intended to soothe, protect, condition, moisturize, and cool annoyed, itchy, or otherwise perturbed scalps. Yesterday, we created a formula removing the ingredients Tiba didn’t want to use. Today, let’s take a look at...

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