10 minute lotions

Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 4 Choosing the water soluble ingredients

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4. Choosing the water soluble ingredients Let’s take a quick look at the formula so far!  5% isododecane, dodecane, light liquid ester, hydrocarbon, cyclomethicone, or fractionated coconut oil5% babassu oil (or substitute coconut oil or butter of choice)5% macadamia nut oil, evening primrose oil, fractionated coconut oil, or camellia oil10% rice bran oilup to 0.5%...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – 3 Choosing the liquid emollients!

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3. Choosing the liquid emollients! Let’s use one fast spreading emollient with one or two medium emollients to create something pretty special! I really love pumpkin seed oil in a lot of my hand and body lotions as it offers a lovely medium spreading, just slightly greasy, non-tacky, non-draggy, non-waxy skin feel that lasts on...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – part 2

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2. Choosing a solid oil or butter For the custard, I decided to use some of my favourite emollients, including babassu oil, which will increase viscosity in the container at room temperature while melting on our skin at body temperature to give us a wonderful, silky, non-greasy, slightly occlusive layer, something we’ll feel on our...

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Creating a Last Minute vanilla bean winter body custard with ViscOptima SE™ – part 1

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1. Meet the emulsifier
Everything is telling you that it’s the LAST MINUTE to get those LAST MINUTE gifts for Christmas even though you waited until what can only be described as the VERY LAST MINUTE on December 22nd, so I thought I’d share with you a formula you can make in less than 30 minutes

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Creating a vanilla and cornsilk protecting facial moisturizer (part nine) – Adapting it to use Jeesperse® CPW-CG-Crosspolymer-G-02 (aka ICE Silicone) – the formula! 

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Welcome back to an additional part of this series on making a vanilla and cornsilk protecting and conditioning facial moisturizer that I’ve designed to apply before biking to protect my skin from the elements and to work well under my sunscreen. In this addendum, we’ll modify the formula to work with Jeesperse® CPW-CG-Crosspolymer-G-02 or ICE Silicone...

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