Extracts

Summer products: 10 minute summer lotion with ViscOptima SE, part two – hydrosols, floral waters & fruit essences

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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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Questions from the recent Zoom workshop on shampoo bars: Adding other ingredients, including purple dyes, botanical extracts, and keratin

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I’m still going through the chat log for the shampoo bar workshop we held on Sunday, June 14th, 2020 trying to answer the questions I might not have addressed. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at adding all kinds of other ingredients to our bars. Wow, this should have been a book! I’m over 7,000 words...

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Q&A: How do we use powdered extracts in place of liquid or vice versa?

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In the April Q&A, Cristina asked: Hi Susan! How do I adjust a formula that calls for a powdered extract but I have the liquid version and viceversa? For example, if the formula says 1% powdered X extract, but I have it in liquid, do I still use 1% of the liquid version? Would I...

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#alltheingredients: Crocus Sativus Flower Extract (Saffron) extract

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This looked like an interesting extract found in the ingredient list of our most recent potential duplication, Deva Curl Wash Day Wonder Pre-Cleanse Slip Detangler, so let’s see what this is all about! “Crocus Sativus Flower Extract is an extract of the flowers of the Saffron Crocus, Crocus sativus L., Iridaceae”, (reference) which is used...

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#alltheingredients: What’s a fruit essence or distillate water?

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There are all kinds of botanical waters we can use in our products, and these fruit essences (aka distillate water) are a lovely way to get all the awesome goodness and fragrances of fruit without the bright or dark colours. A fruit essence is a “highly aromatic water recovered at the pre-heater stage of the...

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