On Wednesday we looked at making a fractionated coconut oil lip scrub. Yesterday, we altered the recipe to be all about the jojoba oil and peppermint essential oil. Today, let's look at an anhydrous or non-oil containing ingredient we could add to this recipe.

Confession: I've been playing with so many active ingredients over the last year in anticipation of writing a new e-book on the topic. You'll see a great many of them here, along with tons of new recipes. I just have to find time to take pictures to make them look all pretty! 

Dehydrosome plump (from Formulator Sample Shop*) is Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil & Lecithin & Yeast Extract. It's an oil soluble liquid we use in our products at 1% to 10%. The claims are that it can plump your lips by reducing transepidermal water loss
The lecithin is filled with phosolipids or phosphatides, and all kinds of lovely fatty acids. In our cosmetic ingredients, lecithin can come from a number of sources like soy, egg, or sunflower oil. The soy and the egg lecithin do differ a little. The soy has a fatty acid profile of 20% palmitic acid (C16), 4.3% stearic acid (C18), 11.4% linoleic acid (C18:1), 56.6% linolenic acid (C18:2), and about 7% linolenic acid (C18:3). The egg lecithin contains 30% palmitic acid (C16), 15.9% stearic acid (C18), 26.4% oleic acid (C18:1), 16.2% linoleic acid (C18:2), and no linolenic acid. It does, however, contain arachadonic acid at about 6%. Both of these contain little to no Vi...