Extracts

Combining emollients: Section four, viscosity – Creating an anhydrous body oil (part five, using oil soluble extracts)

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Welcome to section four, part five of this series on combining emollients! In this part of the series, we’ll be making an anhydrous body oil (one without water) with all the information we have about viscosity and spreading values to see how those might impact the choices we make to create a smooth cascade of...

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Combining emollients: Section four, viscosity – Creating an anhydrous body oil (part four, meeting some oil soluble extracts)

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Welcome to section four, part five of this series on combining emollients! In this part of the series, we’ll be making an anhydrous body oil (one without water) with all the information we have about viscosity and spreading values to see how those might impact the choices we make to create a smooth cascade of...

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#alltheingredients: Bee pollen extract (liquid, water soluble)

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Bee pollen extract, water soluble (INCI: Glycerin (and) Water (and) Pollen Extract (and) Sodium Benzoate (and) Potassium Sorbate) has a number of uses in our products as it works as a skin soothing ingredient that works as an anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, mild astringent, skin protectant, emollient, skin protector, and sebum reducer. Wow! Let’s take a look...

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#alltheingredients: Carrot seed extract (water soluble)

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Carrot seed extract (INCI: Aqua (and) Glycerin (and) Daucus Carota Sativa (Carrot) Seed Extract, Sodium Benzonate, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid) is listed as being soothing, cleansing, moisturizing, and conditioning. The version I’m using is a slightly yellow, clear, water soluble extract that can be used at 0.5% to 5% in any product that contains water. Carrot seeds...

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Summer products: 10 minute summer lotion with ViscOptima SE, part three – botanical extracts

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Welcome back to this series, Let’s make and modify products for summer! In the first part of this modification of the 10 minute strawberry & honey parfait with ViscOptima SE, we added some humectants, allantoin as an occlusive, and altered the oils a little bit. I shared our base formula with some modifications, which we’ll build...

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