whipped butters

How can I heat-proof my anhydrous whipped body butter? Part two, adding fatty acids, alcohols, or esters

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Yesterday, we took a look at adding a butter with a higher melting point to our anhydrous whipped body butters. Today, let’s take a look at adding other oil thickeners with higher melting points, like fatty alcohols, acids, or esters. Adding a solid ingredient like this can have a huge impact on the melting point of...

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Weekday Wonderings: Why make an emulsified body butter over a whipped butter?

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I used to do a thing on the old blog I called Weekend Wonderings where I’d find comments you’d made over the previous week and share them in a post. I stopped doing it as there were so few comments on the old blog and a lot of them were things that had been said...

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Happy National Coffee Day! Celebrate with a whipped vanilla latte coffee butter!

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Let’s get formulating with coffee butter! We met this interesting ingredient yesterday, and I think we can make some luxurious whipped butters good enough to drink! Amanda and I wanted to make something that would allow the less greasy, moisturizing feeling of the coffee butter to shine. Here’s what we formulated! WHIPPED VANILLA LATTE COFFEE...

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Weekday Wonderings: How can we heat proof an anhydrous butter?

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In this post, Adapting your products for summer, Taryn asked: I make body products and this will be my first summer. What can I do to better safeguard my products from turning into liquid pools while at markets and in the mail? I am just starting out and I am worrying that I may have to take...

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Weekend Wonderings: How to heat proof a whipped butter?

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It’s been a weird week! I’ve been sick for most of the week with some kind of stomach/digestive ailment, which has left me in bed feeling very grumpy. Today is Rated T for Teen video game club with the kids, then tonight we’re going to see Nightwish in Vancouver, and we’ll stay in town until...

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