Hydrophilic – Point of Interest

Hydrophilic ingredients love water (hydro- = water and -philic = loving). Water is a hydrophilic ingredient as is glycerin, propylene glycol, and alcohol.

Subscribers’ Q&A: Is there a benefit to mixing different molecular weights of hyaluronic acid?
Another installment of “for the love of God don’t make this!” – Goodful’s Homemade Gentle Magnesium Lotion
Member exclusive Q&A: What’s the deal with the emulsifier, Crodex A (INCI: Cetearyl Alcohol (and) Sodium Lauryl Sulfate), which we might find in Lush products?
Q&A: Why do people use apple cider vinegar rinse after washing with alkaline products? Why not just make the shampoo bars with very low pH? (Tons of information about hair chemistry and shampoo bars…)
Emulsifiers & solubilizers