Chemistry Thursday: Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ surfactants – Bioterge AS-40 & AS-90, and SLSA (part 55)

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Let’s continue our look at foamy, bubbly, lathery™ surfactants in this post as we look at sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, SLSA, and sodium trideceth sulfate (STS) – awesome surfactants we can use in so many products! An important note about this series – it’s here for life. It isn’t going anywhere. If you want to...

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Let’s make a summertime tropical melting body butter (part three, advanced level with formulas, post two) – emollients

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A jar of body butter. The body butter is an emulsion that’s peach coloured. The jar is black with a black lid. The jar sits on a black background.

Welcome to the advanced posts of this series in which we’re making a 10 minute, summertime tropical melting butter. In this second advanced formulation post, we’re looking at the altering the emollients in the formula! We’ll talk about why we might choose different emollients, then we’ll look at some combinations that’ll give us a wonderful...

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Let’s make a summertime tropical melting body butter (part three, advanced level with formulas, post one) – humectants & emulsifiers

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Welcome to the advanced post of this series in which we’re making a 10 minute, summertime tropical melting butter. In this post, we’ll look at the formula, then look at the chemistry of the ingredients with all kinds of ideas for how you might make modifications. This is the third part of the three part...

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Join me for a Zoom workshop Sunday, June 14, 2026 on hair care products (Formulation and Innovation subscribers)!

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Woo hoo! Let’s have another Zoom workshop! This time you voted for a hair care workshop, so we’ll be making all kinds of hair care products, including a quick detangler, rinse-off conditioner, leave-in conditioner, and liquid shampoo. We’ll talk about how to modify the formulas for your hair type too. The meeting is on Sunday,...

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