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Please note, I’ve written a longer post on making whipped butters that you can find here –Last minute, easy, and festively impressive Christmas crafting: Creating decadent, moisturizing, whipped butters! (Part one) – that’s updated for December 2021! Original opening for this post in May 7, 2013: Sorry for the break in these posts, but it’s been...
Welcome back to our Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series, this one focusing on making lotions, body butters, creams, and moisturizers with Incroquat BTMS-50. This week, we’re making a facial moisturizer, a light, powdery, non-greasy lotion with some awesome oils, like squalane. Previous posts & links for this series! If you don’t know much about...
Welcome back to our Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion making series, working with Incroquat BTMS-50. Last week, we made a body butter: This week, we’re modifying that cream to be a body butter! We’ll modify it further in this week’s Formulating Friday post by altering the size of the oil phase and recalculating the formula. Previous posts...
Welcome back to our Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion making series, working with Incroquat BTMS-50. Last week, we created a hand & body lotion using this emulsifier; this week, we’ll be making a body butter. I’ll be modifying this formula in this week’s Formulating Friday post, then we’ll modify it to make it more of a...
Welcome back to this Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series in which we’ll be making a hand & body lotion, body butter or cream, and facial moisturizer using Incroquat BTMS-50, a cationic or positively charged emulsifier that can make all kinds of emulsions, including hair conditioners, thanks to its electrical charge. Previous posts & links...