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Emulsifiers: Making a natural lotion with Ritamulse SCG

One of the reasons to use Ritamulse SCG is the Ecocert label attached to it. So lets see if we can make a lotion using mostly natural/Ecocert ingredients. What is Ecocert? Its a certification process...

8 h ago

Emulsifiers: Thicker lotions with Ritamulse SCG continued

We took a look at making a body butter with Ritamulse SCG yesterday - lets take a look at making thicker creams with this emulsifier. As I mentioned yesterday, the big difference between body butter ...

1 day ago

Emulsifiers: Thicker lotions with Ritamulse SCG

We can use Ritamulse SCG to make anything from light lotions with 80% water to body butters with 60% water. We took a look at the 70% water recipe yesterday, so lets make a thick cream or body butter...

2 days ago

Emulsifiers: Basic lotions with Ritamulse SCG

Although the suggested usage rate of Ritamulse SCG is 2% to 10% to emulsify up to 25% oils, almost every sample recipe Ive seen uses 8%, so were going to be working with that amount in our recipes ov...

3 days ago

Hows that Made? photos - sponsored by readers like you!

I wanted to share pictures from some of the groups weve enjoyed recently as part of our Rated T for Teen youth programs.If youve never used henna to make temporary tattoos, I definitely recommend it!...

4 days ago

Emulsifiers: Ritamulse SCG

Ritamulse SCG (INCI: Glyceryl stearate (and) cetearyl alcohol (and) sodium stearoyl lactylate) is an Ecocert self-emulsifier that can be used at 2% to 10% to emulsify up to 25% oils in an oil in the ...

4 days ago

Comments about Sucragel, emulsifiers, and natural products...

I thought Id answer a few comments Ive seen this week in this post. Look for a post on Ritamulse SCG later this morning or tomorrow morning.In response to Catherine, who commented in this post. As I ...

5 days ago

Emulsifiers: Sucragel AOF - facial moisturizer recipes

Sucragel AOF is a great emulsifier for moisturizers because you can load it with oils and butters and still keep that thin consistency. Lets take a look at a basic recipe for a facial moisturizer.BAS...

6 days ago

Emulsifiers: Sucragel AOF - more complicated recipes

We can create some pretty complicated recipes using Sucragel AOF with minimal heating, so lets take a look at a base recipe then some variations.COMPLICATED RECIPE USING SUCRAGEL AOFHEATED OIL PHASE5...

25 may 12

Dont use my blog for free advertising, Tony EMU Farm!

Heres a comment Tony made on this post on emu oil: Tony EMU Farm-This is an important product in emu-farming. From the fat oil can be extracted. This oil gets absorbed in human skin within 4-5 s...

25 may 12

Emulsifiers: Sucragel AOF - heated recipes

Sucragel AOF can be used to make cold lotions, but sometimes we need to heat our ingredients to incorporate them into a lotion. Lets take a look at a few situations in which we might need to heat ing...

24 may 12

Emulsifiers: Sucragel AOF - cold process recipes

As I mentioned in yesterdays post on Sucragel AOF, products made with this emulsifier can be made cold. Lets take a look at a few recipes we could make through cold process with Sucragel AOF.LIGHT LO...

23 may 12

Avoid these types of recipes if you find them on Pintrest!

Ive seen two recipes going around the net recently that are simply not good recipes. The first was posted as a comment in this post by FooFooBerry...I made this cream for personal use that I found on...

23 may 12

Emulsifiers: Sucragel AOF

Sucragel AOF (INCI: Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil (and) Glycerine (and) Aqua (and) Sucrose Laurate) is a thick liquid emulsifier we can use cold to make gels and lotions. Its based ...

22 may 12

Emulsifiers: An overview

Im in the mood for some experimenting, so lets play with some emulsifiers! Over the next few weeks, well be taking a look at three emulsifiers - Ritamulse SCG, also known as Ecomulse (Lotioncraf...

21 may 12

New things on the blog!

I grew weary of seeing that giant list on the right hand side of the blog in tiny letters that are hard for some of us to read, so I put all of it in the new frequently asked questions page of the bl...

20 may 12

Question: Wheres the emulsifier?

In an e-mail, Leanne asks: I don’t recall seeing this in any of your posts and I am a daily reader!  I was on 100% Pure.com looking at their ingredient list.  Their lotions and creams do no...

20 may 12

Update for a wonderful Thursday!

Its Thursday, and that means craft group at the library. But better yet, it means cosmetic chemistry crafting at the library tonight! Were making fragrance sprays, whipped butters, and salt/sugar scr...

17 may 12

The importance of temperature - an example

I know this seems like a really boring topic, but its one that we neglect at our peril. Temperature is such an important thing for our products, yet I see people arguing against heating and hold...

15 may 12

Honey: Using it in our products

Honey is a good humectant, so it might be a good addition for our products...but I would want to heat and hold it to get rid of any possible spores, and we know that subjecting honey to heat and/or l...

14 may 12

Happy Mothers Day!

If youre in North America, todays the day to honour your mom! Ive just finished making breakfast and were going out for a short trip to the garden store and the car wash! (Im still in a fair bit of a...

13 may 12

Formulating for hair types - part 2...

Thanks for all your input in this thread on formulating for your hair types. In those comments, I noticed requests for quite a few topics on which Ive written so far. (To see all the posts Ive writte...

11 may 12

Honey: A few studies Ive found about its anti-microbial reputation

One of the things I see constantly about honey is that it is an anti-microbial, so lets take a look at the evidence for this concept. There are three features of honey that have been studied ext...

10 may 12

Honey: Natures tastiest humectant?

I am asked all the time what I think about using honey as a humectant in our products, so I thought I should do a little research into this ingredient.So whats the deal with honey? If you want to kno...

09 may 12

Question: How do I come up with recipes?

I originally thought Id missed this very interesting question from Always.Looking.4.1.More in this post, but it turns out that Ive already written about it. But its such a neat idea, I thought Id use...

08 may 12

What have we learned about formulating products for dry skin?

Lets take a look at what weve learned about dry skin and about formulating products for dry skin! There are links o plenty and I really recommend that you click on them to find out more about each to...

07 may 12

Formulating for hair types?

Every day I get questions about hair care products and I notice that the top pages viewed are mostly relating to that topic...so allow me to pose this question - do you want more posts on hair care? ...

06 may 12

Query: Why are you trying to make recipes from scratch?

Im all about making recipes from scratch, coming up with a goal and making something awesome that fulfills those requirements...but Id like to suggest to novice bath & body creators that you spen...

06 may 12

Formulating for dry skin: Making an emulsified scrub

If I were to make a sugar scrub for dry skin, which ingredients would I want to include? Occlusives, emollients, and humectants! But an emulsifier scrub is an anhydrous product, so its hard to i...

06 may 12

A few thoughts for a not-warm-enough Saturday in May...

If youve been trying recipes from other blogs or websites and they havent worked, I suggest a few moments with this post - how can you tell if its a good recipe? I make this suggestion because Ive sp...

06 may 12

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