I recently purchased Lotioncrafter Wrinkle Defense Complex™ (INCI: Water (and) Glycerin (and) Butylene Glycol (and) Carbomer (and) Polysorbate 20 (and) Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 (and) Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1 (and) Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7) I wanted to make an eye serum with this specific peptide complex because it includes two very popular peptides that are often marketed as “botox in a bottle” I looked into this, and no it’s not magic. It is not botox in a bottle. It does not penetrate deep...

Why is my Body Wash, Face Wash, Shampoo, Bubble Bath Separating? You might be combining your phases incorrectly. When making products with foaming surfactant ingredients you want to mix together all of the water based ingredients together first before adding in your gelling agent. This means you need to mix your surfactants into your distilled water FIRST before adding in Xanthan Gum or any other gelling agent. If you do not do this, your surfactants may separate from the distilled water...

This week I needed to restock on face wash. So I decided to make a few different types, but all with the same surfactants. I used a blend of Foaming Apple (INCI: Sodium Cocoyl Apple Amino Acids) as my anionic surfactant. This was actually one of the first surfactants I ever used and I've been a fan ever since. I also used Coco Glucoside as my non-ionic surfactant. Along with BioSuga™ Mulse C80 (INC: Sorbitan Oleate Decylglucoside Crosspolymer). I recently learned that BioSuga™ Mulse C80 can...