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In the January Q&A on Patreon, Tash asked: I found something that’s a bit intriguing, and couldn’t find a reference to it anywhere on your blog. This is a bit of weird product I’m scratching my head over. It seems archaic when compared to some of the nice e-waxes that have appeared lately : Crodex A: (Cetearyl...
It seems like most of Lush’s lotions are based on this kind of formula– an emulsion that uses stearic acid-TEA as the soap based, alkaline emulsifier. It’s the basis for the Ocean Salt scrub we duplicated in July, it’s the basis of the Dream Cream duplication on my blog, and it’s the basis of this Gorgeous...
Yesterday we took a look at the ingredients for Lush’s Ocean Salt face & body scrub. Today, let’s create a prototype formula.Fine Sea Salt (Sodium Chloride), Fresh Grapefruit Infusion (Citrus Paradisi), Coarse Sea Salt (Sodium Chloride), Stearic Acid, Fresh Organic Lime Extracted in Vodka (Citrus aurantifolia), Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Glycol Cetearate, Triethanolamine, Avocado Butter (Persea...
Before we conclude this series on duplicating Lush’s Shower Smoothies – if you missed it, click here to see the most recent post and the links to the other parts – I wanted to address the ingredient lists you’d find in other products of this nature at Lush.If you were interested in duplicating the African...
So far we’ve reviewed the ingredient list, looked at the suggested usage rates for each ingredient, and created a prototype recipe using the stearic acid/triethanolamine emulsifier . Today, let’s take a look at using Polawax for the emulsifier.We use Polawax (or Natragem EW) at 25% of the oil phase . So if we have 29.1%...