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Newbie Tuesday & Formulating Friday: Creating emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – part two, thickeners, rheology modifiers, and preservatives! (Week one)

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Welcome to part two of our introduction to the Simulsol/Lotionpro™ lotion making series/course for both the beginners’ Newbie Tuesday series/course and the more advanced Formulating Friday series/course. Yesterday, we met the emulsifier and looked at how to formulate with it, so today we’re looking at the thickeners and rheology modifiers we’re using for our formulas,...

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Newbie Tuesday series: Creating emulsions with Simulsol/Lotionpro™ 165 – part one, let’s meet the emulsifier and learn how to use it!

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Welcome to week one of our beginners’ lotion making series/course, Newbie Tuesday, for 2021! This will also serve as the first post for the Formulating Friday more advanced lotion making series/course as we learn all about the emulsifier we’ll be using in this part of the series/course, Simulsol 165 (INCI: Glyceryl stearate and PEG-100 stearate),...

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Formulating Friday: Creating facial moisturizers with Incroquat BTMS-50

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Welcome to our last entry in the Formulating Friday lotion making series/course using Incroquat BTMS-50 – making a facial moisturizer! Wow, I can’t believe we’ve made it to the end! Let’s modify our formula to include all the lovely anti-oxidants, humectants, chelating ingredients, and silicones we’ve used in this series and the previous ones to...

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Newbie Tuesday: Creating facial moisturizers with Incroquat BTMS-50

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Welcome back to our Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series, this one focusing on making lotions, body butters, creams, and moisturizers with Incroquat BTMS-50. This week, we’re making a facial moisturizer, a light, powdery, non-greasy lotion with some awesome oils, like squalane. Previous posts & links for this series!  If you don’t know much about...

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Formulating Friday: Creating creams with Incroquat BTMS-50 (part two, altering the increased oil phase)

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In yesterday’s post, we looked at how to increase the oil phase and modify the amount of emulsifier in our Incroquat BTMS-50 cream. Today, let’s look at modifying the formula to include ingredients to increase hydration, slip and glide, and reduce soaping. Please see yesterday’s post for all the links to previous formulas and the...

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