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Foaming bath butter: Let’s make a white chocolate foaming bath butter sugar scrub!

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Yesterday we got acquainted with foaming bath butter, that pasty surfactant mix that we can whip into a lovely frothy mixture to which we can add various exfoliants, like sugar, colours, oils, and fragrances to make a great foamy and lathery body scrub. Let’s take a look at making one now. I decided to keep...

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Why did I buy this and what the heck can I do with it? Foaming bath butter

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I’ve always wanted to play with Foaming Bath Butter, but I could never find it. Then Voyageur Soap & Candle brought it in, and it was time to play! (You can get this at various suppliers. Check the frequently asked questions section of the blog to find a supplier near you!) So what is foaming...

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Thickeners: Ritathix DOE

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As I mentioned in this Weekend Wonderings post, I bought Ritathix DOE, a thickener for surfactant based products and I thought I’d give it a try. Let’s take a look at this thickener in this post, then look at how I use it to thicken things in tomorrow’s post. Then we’ll compare it to Crothix...

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Ingredient: PEG-40 hydrogenated castor oil – the results for Black Amber Lavender and Clementine Cupcake (part 1)

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I’m quite excited to be playing with PEG-40 hydrogenated castor oil, which is a new-to-me solubilizer that promises to improve foam and create clear solutions. Yesterday, I told you about the experiments I did with this solubilizer, and today we’ll take a look at some of the results! BLACK AMBER LAVENDER FRAGRANCE OIL On day 6...

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Why did I buy that again? Lipidthix – using 25% to make a butter

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As I mentioned the other day, I’ve been playing with Lipidthix to make a butter out of an oil. In Thursday’s post, I combined rice bran oil with 20% Lipidthix to make a rice bran oil butter. I liked it, but it was thinner than I wanted. So I thought I’d play around with a...

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