Q&A: Where to start duplicating Lush’s American Pie solid body conditioner? Part two

Yesterday, we reviewed the ingredient list for Lush’s American Pie solid body conditioner. Today, let’s take a closer look at those ingredients and how we might create a potential formula for the product. Ingredients: Fair Trade Cocoa Butter (Theobroma Cacao) Murumuru Butter (Astrocaryum Murumuru) Fresh Strawberry Puree (Fragaria Vesca)*, Fresh Orange Puree (Citrus Aurantium Dulcis)...

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Q&A: Where to start duplicating Lush’s American Pie solid body conditioner? Part one…

In the March Q&A, Katy asked, Hello everyone! I’m just getting started out making my own products. My favorite thing right now is the American Pie solid body conditioner by Lush. I was wondering where I would begin to make something similar. The ingredients seem pretty easy until the end of the list. I’m not sure what the...

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Potential duplication for Lush’s Shower Smoothies (addendum)

Before we conclude this series on duplicating Lush’s Shower Smoothies – if you missed it, click here to see the most recent post  and the links to the other parts – I wanted to address the ingredient lists you’d find in other products of this nature at Lush.If you were interested in duplicating the African...

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Potential duplication of Lush’s Shower Smoothies (part four)

So far we’ve reviewed the ingredient list, looked at the suggested usage rates for each ingredient, and created a prototype recipe using the stearic acid/triethanolamine emulsifier . Today, let’s take a look at using Polawax for the emulsifier.We use Polawax (or Natragem EW) at 25% of the oil phase . So if we have 29.1%...

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Potential duplication of Lush’s Shower Smoothies (part three)

On Monday, we took a look at the ingredient list for Lush’s Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner. On Tuesday, we took a look at the suggested usage rates for each ingredient with an eye to creating a prototype recipe. Today, we’ll take a look at that recipe!We know this is an oil-in-water lotion that is applied...

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