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Chemistry Thursday: Fragrance & essential oils – let’s sum it all up in this final post for this part (part 66) Join me for the final part of this series on fragrance and essential oils in which we’ll sum up everything we’ve learned about these awesome ingredients and how they affect our products. As a...
Welcome to a new series in which we’ll be making a mostly naturally compliant* body butter with Ritamulse SCG, an anionic (negatively charged) emulsifier that makes gorgeous, non-greasy, easily thickened lotions, creams, and butters. In today’s post, we’re looking at the oil phase, including the concept of cascading emollients! We started with the six-ingredient formula...
Join me for this awesome Chemistry Thursday post in which we’re looking at how masculine scents differ from those we’ve met in the series so far. We’ll also look at hexyl cinnamyl (aka hexyl cinnamate or ⍺-hexylcinnamaldehyde), hexamethylindanopyran (Galaxolide), tetramethylacetyloctahydronaphthalenes (Iso E Super, synthetic), and phenethyl alcohol, molecules found in more “masculine” fragrance oils than...
Welcome to a new series in which we’ll be making a mostly naturally compliant* body butter with Ritamulse SCG, an anionic (negatively charged) emulsifier that makes gorgeous, non-greasy, easily thickened lotions, creams, and butters. Welcome to a new series in which we’ll be making a mostly naturally compliant* body butter with Ritamulse SCG, an anionic...
Welcome to a new series in which we’ll be making a mostly naturally compliant* body butter with Ritamulse SCG, an anionic (negatively charged) emulsifier that makes gorgeous, non-greasy, easily thickened lotions, creams, and butters. We started with the six-ingredient formula in the beginner series, and we’re working our way through the concepts, then modifying it...