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Zoom workshop this Sunday, September 13th: Creating hand & body lotions with Polawax – meeting link, password, and downloads

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Woo hoo! It’s the first Zoom workshop of the September, and our topic is making a hand & body lotion using Polawax, part one of my Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion making series! We’ll be making this lotion and talking about the different ways we could combine emollients to create different sensory experiences. Check out the...

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Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series: Ingredients we’ll be using for all the products in the series

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Welcome back to the introductory section of the Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series/course! In today’s post, we’ll be looking at the ingredients we’re using in our basic lotions, including humectants and thickeners. As a note, I’ve started a page with all of the links to all the parts, which I’ll be updating every time...

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Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series: Introduction: The chemistry of lotions and some things about Polawax, e-wax NF, Phytomulse, and Natragem EW

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Welcome to Part one of the Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion series/course in which we’ll be making lotions using four different emulsifiers over the next four months. In today’s post, we’ll be looking at the chemistry of lotions and how they work, then specifically at how we’ll be using September’s emulsifiers – Polawax, Natragem EW, e-wax...

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Combining emollients: Spreading values – Emulsifiers – Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (part two)

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In part one of the combining emollients series/course, we introduced the concept of combining emollients to create interesting sensory experiences. In part two, we looked at the concept of spreadability and spreading values. Then we decided to make a lotion using these concepts! In part one of this lotion formula, we chose those oils we for a Polawax...

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Combining emollients: Spreading values – Emulsifiers – Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 (part one)

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In part one of the combining emollients series/course, we introduced the concept of combining emollients to create interesting sensory experiences. In part two, we looked at the concept of spreadability and spreading values. Then we decided to make a lotion using these concepts! In part one of this lotion formula, we chose those oils we for a Polawax...

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