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The recipe I posted yesterday for a foot cream can be modified in so many different ways, it would take us weeks just to get through those variations we could make using soybean oil as the main oil! It’s all about your preferences and supplies – what you see here reflects what I have in...
I find one of the quickest ways to turn a lotion into a cream is to substitute stearic acid for cetyl alcohol. Fatty acids tend to increase the thickness of our products better than the fatty alcohols, although you will experience a decrease in the slip and glide of the product and might even get...
What if you want to increase your oil phase further? You have two choices – you can choose another recipe that has a higher oil phase and a lower water phase or you can modify your recipe to increase the oils and emulsifier. Let’s say we take the recipe from the other day, the less...
While making our basic lotion the other day, we had a decision to make. Do we substitute 2% IPM for one of the oils or do we add it to the oil phase as an extra 2%? We addressed the substitution issue on Friday, so let’s take a look at increasing your oil phase today. ...
There are so many different ways to reach the goals I set out for yesterday’s recipe, and it all depends on your preferred and available ingredients and your preferred skin feel. Let’s consider our question about goals again, but tweak it a little for a different skin feel… What kind of product do I want...