I was fortunate to be asked to present at this year's Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetics Guild conference in Las Vegas, and thought I'd share some of those recipes with you. Lotioncrafter very kindly sponsored my presentation, providing me with all the ingredients I needed as well as all the supplies from beakers to spatulae and the equipment, like a hand mixer and kettle. You can get all the ingredients I mention in this recipe at that lovely on-line store, as you'll see in the links below.

The goal of this moisturizer is to create something that all kinds of ingredients to moisturize and hydrate our skin with some lovely active ingredients to help with the appearance of uneven skin tone and fine lines and wrinkles. We?re using Aristoflex AVC as a cold emulsifier so we can make something quickly rather than heating and holding.
Aristoflex AVC (INCI: Ammonium Acryloyldimethyltaurate/VP Copolymer) is a cold process emulsifier, a polymer that can create gels as well as emulsify up to 5% oils or silicones. We can?t include ingredients with high levels of electrolytes, like aloe vera, sodium PCA, sodium lactate, some extracts, or some proteins, or hyaluronic acid at 0.1% or higher. It doesn?t work well with surfactant based products, like shampoo, body wash, or facial cleansers. It can potentially make clear gels, and it?s suggested you use up to 5% glycerin to make the gels clearer.

In this recipe, I'm using it at 1% to emulsify my two oil soluble ingredients - tetrahexy...