formulating

After looking through the posts, I felt that I hadn’t written enough on formulating our less watery lotions before delving into lighter lotions and moisturizers, so let’s step back to those for a few more posts before moving on to facial products. BASIC LOTION RECIPEHEATED WATER PHASE (69.5% of the lotion)69.5% water HEATED OIL PHASE...

I thought I’d take a moment today to recap what we’ve learned so far about formulating and tweaking lotions. I like to start by figuring out the goal of the lotion. What kind of lotion do I want to make for what skin type or body part? Next, choose your recipe. If you want to...

We know that a light lotion has about an 80% water phase, 19% oil phase, and 0.5% to 1% preservative.  And we know we can tweak that lotion silly with any ingredients we want as long as we stay within those guidelines if we want it to remain the consistency of a light lotion (You...

As I’ve mentioned before, a light lotion is one that consists of about 80% water and doesn’t contain lots of butters or other thickeners. This is something you’d use as a body lotion or facial moisturizer as it’s not sturdy enough to handle being a hand or foot lotion. It works out to about 80%...

Yesterday we made a lotion with minimally processed ingredients, let’s make a body butter in a similar fashion. Again, I’m going to use an emulsifier and a preservative, which means I can’t have a 100% minimally processed product. But we can go for something on par with 92% minimally processed ingredients! So what ingredients do...