Weekend Wonderings: Making a coconut oil whipped butter? How to use preneutralized carbomer?

In this post on whipped butters, Selah asks:  I would like to make a whipped body butter with just these ingredients: coconut oil, beeswax, vitamin e oil and essential oils. Would you happen to know a good ratio to use for a whipped body butter like that? FWIW: I made one yesterday that had a slightly too...

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One ingredient, ten products: Sunflower oil in whipped butters

I love using sunflower oil in whipped butters because it offers a really light skin feel that takes a while to sink into my skin. It offers me tons of lovely linoleic acid to help repair skin’s barrier mechanisms and reduce transepidermal water loss, oleic acid to soften and moisturizer, and the phystosterols help reduce...

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One ingredient, ten products: Whipped butters without butter

A few years ago, I set out to see if I could create a whipped butter without using a butter in the hopes of being able to turn some of my favourite oils into whipped butters! Take a minute to check out my posts on the topic if you’re interested… Experiments in the workshop: Whipped...

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Ingredient: Using Captex SBE/ButterEZ as a thickener with oils

One of the ways you can use Captex SBE or ButterEZ (INCI Caprylic/capric/stearic triglycerides) in our products is as a thickener. It can be used in place of a butter in your products or you can combine it with a butter or oil to thicken it or reduce grains. I think the most amazing thing...

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What do you want to know? Adding starch to a whipped butter

In the What do you want to know post, Jodi asks: What do you think about making a whipped butter and adding a starch like tapioca powder or Natrasorb? How would this add to the butter? Lots of people do this and love it. The point of doing this is to remove some of the...

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