Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – creating an awesome facial moisturizer with actives (part 9)

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Welcome back to this series, which I think is the last part before we start the new series in January for Sepigel 305 or Sepiplus 400? If you’d like to see another post with a wrap-up or to ask questions or to share your formulas, let me know in the comments or email me at...

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Creating a four ingredient solid perfume or cologne with formulas – different butters, different oils, and a vegan version with a few different waxes (part two)

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Welcome to part two of our series on making one of my favourite, super-easy-to-make products that’ll wow and impress your family and friends – and is easy for kids to make too – is solid perfume or cologne. It needs four simple ingredients – a wax, a butter, a liquid oil, and a gorgeous fragrance...

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Creating a four ingredient solid perfume or cologne with formulas (part one)

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One of my favourite, super-easy product to make that’ll wow and impress your family and friends – and is easy for kids to make too – is solid perfume or cologne. It needs four simple ingredients – a wax, a butter, a liquid oil, and a gorgeous fragrance or essential oil. It only takes as...

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Let’s make a six ingredient lotion – an easily customizable kukui nut & babassu oil lotion with additional ingredients using Polawax or Natragem EW (part two) 

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A plastic beaker contains a white creamy lotion, it's a summer lotion with babassu oil, and it feels very nice. Not greasy at all.

Welcome to the six ingredient lotion challenge! The rules are simple – make a lotion using only six ingredients! I’m going to expand this into a series in January or February, but I thought I’d share this with you so you can get a sense of what it might be about along with a formula...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG – increasing the viscosity by adding a structuring agent (part 8 with formulas and new instructions)

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A photo of three containers after packaging a cold process emulsion using SEPILIFE™ NUDE. The first beaker contains a bit of lotion with a black spatula. The second contains three small tottle bottles. The third has a blue spatula.

Welcome to part eight of this series/course – Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series – in which we’ll look at how to increase the viscosity by adding oil-soluble solid-at-room temperature ingredients by creating a new heated oil phase for the formula. In our last post on November 29, 2025, we looked at increasing the viscosity...

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