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Creating products – end of the series and what’s next!

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I hope you’ve enjoyed this series on creating products! Keep those helpful hints coming! I’m moving on to review some new ingredients I’ve bought and experimented with in the last few months. We’ll start tomorrow with behenyl alcohol and take a look at some new surfactants, some new emulsifiers, and other ingredients! I have to...

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Creating products: Labels! (updated)

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We don’t necessarily think of labelling our products as being an essential part of product creation, but when you accidentally use mentholated foot lotion as a facial moisturizer, you’ll realize that we must label everything! Original post from January 24, 2010…Why you must label everything!  Look at the picture to the left. Look at the...

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Creating products: Filling our bottles (updated)

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Original post from July 13, 2009, modified today… Filling containers can be such a huge pain in the bum! Here are a few things I thought I’d share… Since I’m a surfactant junkie, I make a lot of bubble baths, body washes, and shampoos that need bottling. I find the easiest way is to get...

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Creating products: Cool down phase (updated)

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We’ve chosen a good recipe, we’ve assembled our ingredients, we’ve heated and held, and we’ve mixed! It’s time to add the cool down ingredients. What do we put into our cool down phase? (Click here for the original post.) We put in the ingredients that might be sensitive to heat, such as our silicones (cyclomethicone...

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Creating products: Questions about mixing (updated)

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There’s been a lot of interest about mixing our products, and a lot of questions have arisen, so let’s take a look at a few of the comments from the post on this topic! Anonymous asked this question: Hi Susan thank you for the wonderful information so generously given here. After reading you post on blending...

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