We all know that oil and water don’t mix, because they are immiscible. So, how do we get immiscible ingredients to stay together? Emulsions! This is where our emulsifier comes in. Without an emulsifier, no matter how much you stirred the oils and water, once you stopped it would separate. Like attracts Like, that’s why […]
Personally, I love cocoa butter. It is one of the butters that I use most often when making DIY skincare products. Cocoa butter is a natural vegetable fat that comes from the cocoa bean and is widely used in products like lip balms, lotion bars, body butters, and massage bars. The fatty acids in cocoa
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This is something that I have been wanting to get up on the blog for sometime now! You will be able to use this template for resizing all of your current recipes and to create formulas moving forward. Resizing a Current Recipe Resizing a recipe can be kind of difficult when you are first starting
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Stearic acid is kind of a cool ingredient. You can use it in different recipes and in each recipe you can use it for a completely different purposes. You will often see it used in lotions to thicken them and added to candle wax to boost the scent throw. Stearic Acid: Basic Information INCI Name: Stearic Acid
Vegetable glycerin is a natural humectant that absorbs and holds water. The cool thing about this ingredient, is that it is able to draw moisture out of the air and to our skin. Vegetable glycerin is super versatile and can be used in a variety of personal care products. Vegetable Glycerin: Basic Information INCI Name: Glycerin
In this post I am going be taking a closer look at Emulsifying Wax NF. As the name suggests, it is used to combine ingredients that are not compatible (such as oil and water) into a formula by creating an emulsion. Emulsifying wax nf is frequently used to create thick and solid emulsions in the
