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

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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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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 7 Choosing botanical extracts

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Choosing botanical extracts! Learn more about these gorgeous botanical extracts in our enormous botanical extracts & hydrosols section of the site, always found under the “ingredients” tab in the menu. Which water soluble or powdered botanical ingredients do I recommend? For a winter product, I want those that’ll help soothe irritated, chapped, or wind blown...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 6 Choosing hydrosols, distillates, or floral waters

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Choosing hydrosols, distillates, or floral waters! Learn more about these hydrosols, distillates, floral waters, and waters in our enormous botanical extracts & hydrosols section of the site, always found under the “ingredients” tab in the menu. If you wanted this to have a subtle hint of fragrance, a hydrosol, distillate, or floral water at 10%...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 5 Choosing humectants

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Choosing humectants! We’re moisturizing our skin by adding all kinds of lovely emollients, so let’s so we’ll add some humectants to help with hydrating our parched skin. We can add 3% glycerin, propanediol 1,3, or propylene glycol to help draw water from the atmosphere to the skin to hydrate it, so let’s do that. We...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 4 Choosing the water soluble ingredients

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4. Choosing the water soluble ingredients Let’s take a quick look at the formula so far!  5% isododecane, dodecane, light liquid ester, hydrocarbon, cyclomethicone, or fractionated coconut oil5% babassu oil (or substitute coconut oil or butter of choice)5% macadamia nut oil, evening primrose oil, fractionated coconut oil, or camellia oil10% rice bran oilup to 0.5%...

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