Month: March 2024

#alltheingredients: Fision® HydraTress – awesome hair active!

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Let’s take a closer look at this gorgeous new-to-me blend of vitamins, humectants, and proteins I’ve been using in my hydrating winter skin & scalp spray that we’ll be adapting to be other products shortly – Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract, 1,2 -Hexanediol, Sodium Hyaluronate) We’ve met...

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Hey $10 subscribers! The March 2024 e-book is here: Creating advanced emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165: Part three, facial moisturizers! Get your coupon here! 

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Woo hoo! I’m so excited to share this with you! As per my trend for e-books over the last few years, it’s absolutely massive at almost 39,000 words, 128 pages, and 30 formulas for all kinds of facial moisturizers that include actives, cosmeceuticals, and vitamins with more information than you thought you needed to know...

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Let’s create a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of botanicals & actives (part five, AQUAXYL™™, Fision® HydraTress, and preservatives)

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Welcome back to this series in which we’re making a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of botanicals & actives, which can be used as a skin and scalp hydrator, a facial toner, or a sprayed serum before you use an anhydrous product, like whipped body butter, body oil, or facial oil. In...

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Quick note on e-books! March is almost ready; January will still be another week

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I thought I’d put the bulk of this message in the subject to make it easier to read if you’re just skimming. March’s e-book – Creating facial moisturizers with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – is almost done. I just need one more pass to add photos and diagrams. It’s 127 pages at the moment! Wow! I’ll share...

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#alltheingredients: Hydrolyzed quinoa protein – hair and skin hydrator and film former

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Let’s take a closer look at hydrolyzed quinoa protein, an ingredient that contains amino acids and proteins from quinoa that works well for hair and skin as a film former and hydrator. This post is specifically about Quinoa Pro NPNF (INCI: Hydrolyzed quinoa protein), not Chenopodium quinoa seed extract, like NaturePep® Quinoa.) Before we start…...

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