Humectants

#alltheingredients: Pentylene glycol – humectant, preservative booster, and reducer of water activity

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Pentylene glycol. A clear liquid in a shot glass seen from above, sitting on a silver metal plate of a scale

Woo hoo! Windy Point Soap Making Supplies (Canada) has pentylene glycol (1,2-pentanediol)*, a multifunctional, water-soluble liquid that works as a humectant, preservative for bacteria, preservative booster, solubilizer, solvent, and ingredient that’ll enhance the performance of actives, like our cosmeceuticals, vitamins, proteins, and peptides. It’s not sticky like some other humectants, and it can increase the...

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#alltheingredients: Sodium PCA – an awesome humectant!

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Sodium PCA in a cup. It's a clear liquid in a shot glass on a metal scale.

We have a great question about sodium PCA in the monthly Q&A that I want to answer in greater detail, but first we need to learn about this awesome humectant we find as part of the natural moisturizing factor (NMF) in our skin. It’s so awesome, it’s more awesome than glycerin without being sticky! It’s...

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Modifying the winter hair & scalp spray: Let’s make a dry hair & scalp hydrating conditioner (part one) – adding a conditioner with formula

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Let’s modify the gorgeous winter hair & scalp hydrating spray full of botanicals and actives to be a lovely dry hair & scalp hydrating conditioner! Links to the original series… You can find the original series in which we made a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of botanicals & actives, which can be...

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Let’s analyze an absolutely atrocious article on glycerin to learn more awesome chemistry, then talk a little about reputable sources and formulating faves! 

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This article has been making the rounds recently and I wanted to analyze it because it is so absolutely magnificently wrong in so many ways, I thought it could be an interesting exercise in analyzing an article and having loads of chemistry fun while doing it! Article: HOW DOES GLYCERINE REACT WITH WATER? Related posts...

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Let’s create a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of botanicals & actives (part five, AQUAXYL™™, Fision® HydraTress, and preservatives)

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Welcome back to this series in which we’re making a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of botanicals & actives, which can be used as a skin and scalp hydrator, a facial toner, or a sprayed serum before you use an anhydrous product, like whipped body butter, body oil, or facial oil. In...

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