Chemistry Thursday: Let’s meet some amino acid or protein based surfactants – looking at head size, tail length, CMC, and more and how they relate to their mildness (part 69)

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Welcome back to our introduction to cosmetic chemistry series. We had a little side quest over the summer looking at fragrance and essential oils and how they impact surfactant based products, but we’re back to the main quest – looking at foamy, bubbly, lathery™ surfactants! In this part of the series, we’re looking at acyl...

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Let’s make an anhydrous facial serum or oil (part one, analysis and general formula)

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A clear glass bottle with a black eye dropper sits atop a grey and white rock. Green trees and leaves are behind it. We tool this photo on a trail. The bottle contains a clear yellow liquid, a facial or body oil.

We explored this idea in my Waterless Beauty series of e-books and I thought it’d be fun to look at this on the site as well. I hope this gives you an idea of what you’d find in the e-books that’s a little different than the site. I spend pages getting more in-depth with a...

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Tips & techniques: A few different ways to keep track of your formulas!

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As I’ve been organizing my workshop and my formula books, I’ve realized there are loads of things I haven’t shared with you here on the site that could be super useful if you have as much trouble getting organized as I do! Any links shared are so you can find things – there are never...

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Tips & techniques: How do I remember why I bought a specific ingredient? How do you organize it all?

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I’m asked this question all the time and I can’t believe I haven’t written a longer post about this, so let’s take a look at the problem. And please share your thoughts by commenting or by messaging me at swiftcraftymonkey@swiftcraftymonkey.blog and let’s get a discussion going! There can often be quite some time between ordering...

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