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As we saw yesterday, Lipidthix is a powder we can add to our oils to create butters out of them. Why would we want to do this? So we can have something like jojoba butter or soy butter or any other oil we like butter that we can use as something like a whipped butter...
Lipidthix (INCI Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) is an oil soluble vegetable oil that has been hydrogenated into a powdered form. It thickens oil soluble products and can make butters by adding it to oils. (It’s recommended at 20% Lipidthix with 80% oils to make a buttery version of the oil.) As an aside, if you get...
I thought I’d make a nice eye gel with the cera bellina and add some lovely oil soluble ingredients and extracts. ANHYDROUS EYE SERUM WITH CERA BELLINA10% borage oil20% macadamia nut oil14% fractionated coconut oil10% calendula oil12% kukui oil4% sea buckthorn oil5% green tea extract (oil soluble)5% phyto oil10% cera bellina10% mallow extract (oil soluble)...
I’m still experimenting with cera bellina, and I thought I’d try this recipe I found on the translated site of the Aroma Zone and I thought I’d try it. It goes like this…. AROMA ZONE RECIPE – SHEA BUTTER & OIL WITH CERA BELLINA10% shea butter13% cera bellina76.50% macadamia nut oil0.5% fragrance oil I decided...
I’ve been dying to make an oily gel since I heard I could do it with Sucragel AOF – which was an epic fail – so I was excited to see that I could use cera bellina in that capacity. I read that 10% should make a thicker oily gel, so I thought I’d start...