Showing posts with label swiftcraftymonkey. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 09, 2019

amber perfume

damn it to hell my lotion smells like dill and cucumbers, a sea of cucumbers by bath and body works is what my friend said and i wanted to throw it away. whatever. he was using axe products when i met him. anyway i made a simple fresh amber perfume and got to smell it again today, thank god i wrote the formula down because i love it and want to repeat it. though, without the lavender alcohol i made it might not smell the same. so there are variations.
it smells of vanilla, sandalwood, musk, lavender extract, and heliotrope. the lavender alcohol i made, its green, and it smells of hay and dried grass and lavender. the amber perfume is very nice and mild and natural smelling even though its mostly aroma chems in the lavender alcohol as a base.  still going to make an amber using essential oils only. labdanum, im almost out and want to try it from a different supplier to get a better sense of it. and vetiver, sandalwood and benzoin. im dreaming of it because i made something similar and the smell was amazing resinous and balsamic but im not sure if i have a good handle on what balsamic smells like. or resinous for that matter. the vetiver from botanic planet is so good it smells like a perfume on its own. just amazing. and the magnolia leaf in low dilution was like how farnesol smells in trace. i made a .01 in 10 grams and it smells similar to isobutavan, to me, it has a vanilla cream aspect to it. im not sure though since i only have so few chemicals to smell. mostly im super impressed with learning the ratios of using the essentials oils when i look up demo formulas in the good scents company, like this recent chypre i copied. ive been using these oils for years now but never figured out the concentrations for example petitgrain, i would never use it higher than other oils or corriander seed which i recently bought but havent used much due to its strength, i wouldnt pair it at the same ratio of anything but in the chypre formula i copied from good scents the ratios of these strong materials is very high, same with the galbanum, such a strong material, but the smell is great in this formula, i can tell how much i over dosed based on the formula (tweaked the ratios as well as made lots of substitution) and im just really glad i found this new hobby to learn how to use the essential oils as perfume. most of the perfumes im making could be all essential oils if i could afford them because these chemicals are really strange, for example farnesol has a anti fugal activity ? or is it anti bacterial, on a certain organism. on human skin. i do not remember the concentration because i dont think i read the entire study, but i do remember the sandalore concentration and its something like .005 lol. really miniscule. that was the concentration in the cream preparation or what did they use to apply it, on the skin, for the sensors to sense the chemical in its atmosphere to stimulate a growth stage of hairs. they dissected mice for this. there are close up pictures of the mice hairs sliced ala damien hurst, growing. pretty intense. im not sure if the study detailed humans? now that im recalling the horror of reading this study just to prove science, im getting rather ill and wonder if it was actually the sandalore study. oh man to be a mouse in a little test zone...oh wait. .
so i was going to rereate the amber perfume but i should buy pipettes. the tiny sample bottles are wasted with little drips around the rims when i use a toothpick to guide the drops, so inaccurate as well. all my formulas since i stopped reusing droppers have been pure luck or misfortune, for example the galbanum overdose. ugh. . .
because i wonder what the smoking violets perfume would smell like with an amber base. havent even finished my design for the label.  did housekeeping today and have some money to buy supplies even though i shouldnt because its not what i should be doing. woops. so greedy vs reality. but single use droppers are absolutely essential ever since my black agar and smelled like it had cassis. ugh.. also found a low cost .001 scale with the auto shut off feature shut offable.
ahh im just touching my hands that were over dry but now totally smoothed over from using the lotion. an amber lotion would be choice! now that i know how to make a fluffy and creamy lotion, this is the formula i wanted for the smoking violets lotion. just hadnt made it yet, and still havent because i made the formula in my head as it was coming along and it was over 100% hmmm also the lotion has some ethanol in it and i could feel it on my over dry skin the first time i put it on, it was like yeow, same thing when i put it on my face, around my nose, it stung yikes, but wow on my hands it was super stingy but worth it i guess because my hands cured super fast and the skin smoothed over. and it doesnt sting when i use it anymore. there was broken / dry skin so it stung. much like when i used the lavender alcohol diluted on over dry plus lye fume burned hands. for the lotion i used .10 of sodium lactate and 2% ipm and 2% dimethicone as recommended in swifts lotions, 78% water so its really fluffy with mostly peach kernel oil. ahhh im so pleased and want that amber lotion! im lucky to have these comforts. oh yeah actually i fudged when my bank was locked i was in the middle of supply shopping and actually i had some preservatives in a bought cart i couldnt pay for. my preservative is all clumpy and done. i should have added it to glycerine or something, i have some in peg 400 but no one uses that stuff topically. and i have the phenoxyethanol and caprylyl glycol stuff but its not antifungal. sighing til diy'ing. oh yeah and i forgot about my new use for xylitol. hey wheres my lame go fund me <<<<< insert link hither

Wednesday, January 09, 2019

cosmetology and aromatherapy school of hard knocks

ahh it feels like im in grade school
paying my lunch dollar to susan and listening to perry on youtube
meanwhile my case studies are totally pending and giving me writers block
because i was up all night reading about other things i dont need to write reports on


Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Lotion Trial

Today is the lotion trial day (it started at 11, so im hiding out in the blog)

So of course before even starting or attempting to make the lotion
http://swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-did-my-lotion-fail-emulsifiers.html
I am also hiding out daydreaming and reading swiftcraftymonkeys blog posts on lotions.

Point of Interest!: Lotions: A basic recipe

Point of Interest!: The argument for heating & holding lotions

Point of Interest!: If you're new to lotion making...

Point of Interest!: When lotions go wrong!

also the whole desk needs to be cleared and cleaned and so does the kitchen stove area etc, so actually i was looking up buying a hotplate so of course the first store i hoped to find one was studio brilliantine

but what about a gas burner with mini stand

anyway so im clearing the desk and have been trying to get my motivation back after getting chased and traumatized by the landlord steve.
its pretty shit. i freakin hate the guy. ok anyway im trying to not be traumatized but that doesnt diminish the severity of his assault toward me in my own "home"
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ok its 4:24
finally have distilled water
all the soaps are probably rotting now from contamination and tap water

specially the cannabis soap i gave away at the free event
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i think the lotion failed
i will update again

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its kind of waxy
so i guess i should go to shoppers and get some glyserine

wow heating and holding was intense and difficult over the stove

im tired

and my lotion might be partially candle wax.

so i dont know if the lotion is good? im not sure what the one wax really is? i bought it from the woman up by finch. so far.
it seems fine on my dry leg
but it looks waxy/shiny on my hands/ palms/ fingertips

it doesnt really do the waxy effect

its got
shea butter
pumpkin seed oil
hemp seed oil
mct oil
aloe vera
water
cetearyl alcohol and polysorbate 60 or emulsifying wax nf
the weird unknown wax might be cetyl and stearyl alcohols ?
trace essential oils
iodine (99% Diazolidinyl Urea (DU) and 1% Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate -germall plus)

so im going to try again tomorrow i guess it needs to be bottled up should have done it sooner.

woah its really great on my leg. if i add green coffee oil is it a cellulite lotion?

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so im pretty excited about it

i wanted to make a skin brightening lotion but ill try the other emulsifying wax and a stronger concentration of the aloe vera powder first. maybe different oils too. i wanted a sunflower one so my skin barrier function improves. ive been getting ash dry skin when i forget to put lotion on :(

just a plain lotion with a runnier texture? lotionpro 165 tomorrow plus water phase thickener (i have rice bran, arrowroot powder, and guar gum) (i have no idea what im doing)

and these need to sit around for ages before i give one to someone, what if it separates?
if i give it to a friend, my friend will tell me, but what if i give it to a stranger and they don't tell me but tell everyone else how awful my lotion was?