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How can I heat-proof my anhydrous whipped body butter? Part two, adding fatty acids, alcohols, or esters

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Yesterday, we took a look at adding a butter with a higher melting point to our anhydrous whipped body butters. Today, let’s take a look at adding other oil thickeners with higher melting points, like fatty alcohols, acids, or esters. Adding a solid ingredient like this can have a huge impact on the melting point of...

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How can I heat-proof my anhydrous whipped body butter? Part one, adding butters

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How can I heatproof my anhydrous body butter? It’s a common question this time of year as anhydrous whipped shea or other butters tend to liquidify in the hot summer sun at markets, while shipping, or just sitting in your bathroom in a lovely jar. Let’s take a look at a few ways we can...

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Formulating with hydrogenated butters: Lime butter

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As I mentioned back in September, I bought a lot of lime butter by accident, so I’ve been formulating with it quite a bit lately. Let’s take a look at this ingredient and other hydrogenated oils/butters before we formulate with it. Lime butter – INCI: Citrus Latifolia Oil (and) Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (and) Tocopherol, according...

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Weekend Wonderings: So many comments (part one!)

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As you might have read, I’ve been sick lately. It’s been one heck of a flu, and I’m still struggling with low energy issues and sinus problems. I thought I’d get to some of the comments you’ve made in the last few weeks. Please be patient with me – I’m wading through the e-mail and...

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One ingredient, ten products: Sunflower oil in whipped butters

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I love using sunflower oil in whipped butters because it offers a really light skin feel that takes a while to sink into my skin. It offers me tons of lovely linoleic acid to help repair skin’s barrier mechanisms and reduce transepidermal water loss, oleic acid to soften and moisturizer, and the phystosterols help reduce...

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