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Weekend Wonderings: Adding and removing from the water amount

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When we’re adding or removing water soluble ingredients from a recipe, we tend to remove or add to the amount of water in the product. Let’s say we have a recipe that looks like this…. BASIC LOTION RECIPEHEATED WATER PHASE74% water HEATED OIL PHASE20% oil5% emulsifier COOL DOWN PHASE1% preservative …and we want to add...

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Question: How do I come up with recipes?

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I originally thought I’d missed this very interesting question from Always.Looking.4.1.More in this post, but it turns out that I’ve already written about it. But it’s such a neat idea, I thought I’d use it as a starting point to get you interested in coming up with your own basic recipes! I wonder how you...

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Formulating for dry skin: Making an emulsified scrub

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If I were to make a sugar scrub for dry skin, which ingredients would I want to include? Occlusives, emollients, and humectants! But an emulsifier scrub is an anhydrous product, so it’s hard to include things like glycerin or sodium lactate as they will come out of the product and make a mess. So what can...

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Question: How do I know how much of an ingredient to include in a product?

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I can’t believe I haven’t answered this question yet, and I suspect that there is a post out there on this topic, but I figure we’ll take another look at this idea!  How do you know how much of an ingredient to include in your product? These are a few of the things I consider…...

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Formulating for dry skin: What is dry skin?

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What does it mean to have dry skin? What might be causing it? What ingredients could you use in your products to help with this issue? Let’s take a look at these questions before we enjoy a few days of formulating for this skin type! What does it mean to have dry skin? (Original post from...

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