On the Move with Organics: New Facility Prep & Inspections
As you may already be aware Essential Wholesale & Labs is preparing to move from our 26,000 square foot facility in Clackamas Oregon to a new manufacturing plant in Northwest Portland. We plan on being more or less settled into the new building by the last week in May.
Of course, it will take us a little while before we have everything set up just right. As a result, there will be a short interruption in our certified organic standing with Oregon Tilth and we will have to temporarily suspend sales of certified organic ingredients until the facility is fully inspected and certified. To clarify, this will not affect the sales of bases containing organic materials. It will only affect the sale of repackaged certified organic ingredients…
Essential Wholesale Recipe Wall of Fame: Sheila’s Sunburst leave-in Conditioner
Today Sheila came to the lab to utilize our jojoba spray in making a customized, leave in hair conditioner. Jojoba oil, as many of you know makes a great hair treatment in and of itself, and this concoction will bring convenience to your jojoba experience without resorting to messier methods of application that may ensue.
Our ingredients and supplies include:
16 oz of Jojoba Spray Lotion
1/2 oz Blueberry Tincture
Essential Oil Blend:
25 drops of Sweet Orange Essential Oil
25 drops of Jasmine Absolute Oil
8 oz spray bottles and spray tops
32 oz beaker and small funnel
Ingredient Spotlight ~ Cypress
The name Cypress refers to many plants in the Cupressaceae family, a conifer of northern temperate regions. Most plants in this family are trees, but some are shrubs as well. The genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis comprise most of the cypress, but several other genera can apply. Cypress is famous for its longevity, and has been a popular garden plant for thousands of years.
Customer Comments ~ Cremes
We all had such an amazing time meeting our customers at HSMG’s 2012 Conference here in Portland! Thank you so much to all the members that came out! It is a rare event that we get to meet so many of you in person, and this year’s conference lived up to the hype in every way!
For those of you just getting interested in soapmaking, we recommend checking out and then joining the Handcrafted Soap Makers Guild- www.soapguild.org . We also can of course personally recommend our own melt and pour soaps for getting started in the world of soap making.
For our customer reviews and comments we move back to crèmes- wishing you a wonderful weekend from everyone at EW&L!
A Will and a Way for Jojoba to Stay
First off, we would like to thank you for this fantastic show of support. We are grateful for your interest and input. The jojoba shortage has caused everyone so much frustration and anxiety and it is so great to know we can count on our valued customers to pitch in and help us sort out what needs to be done next…
Wax on, wax on…
Steven Borden is our compliance manager here at EW&L and his many years’ experience in the natural products industry are always coming in handy for those of us much newer to the field. We wanted to introduce waxes as another class of ingredients, just like we did with our butters article, but soon realized that waxes are quite a deep subject when it comes to cosmetics and personal care items, so this would take some planning and thought. It’s also important to note that Essential Wholesale also sells a number of floral waxes, which like distillates are made from the leftover remnants of the essential oil distillation process. These floral waxes include Jasmine Wax (Sambac and Grandiflorum), Mimosa Wax and Tuberose Wax, and are more for simple scenting and adding to soaps…
Ingredient Spotlight ~ Oakmoss Absolute
Oakmoss (Evernia prunasti) is exactly what it seems - lichen from Oak trees, as well as firs and pines. Oakmoss absolute is unusual in a variety of ways; most notably it is extracted with solvents rather than steam distilled and has almost zero therapeutic benefits, although some do like the smell. Hold on though- because there is more to say about this odd solvent extracted oil. It is also important to note that Oakmoss and other absolute oils are not technically considered essential oils because of their solvent based extraction process. Essential oils are only that that are steam distilled…
Product Reviews: Rosehip ~ Hibiscus & more serums
as a pre-celebration moving offer to our fabulous customers! Wishing you an awesome weekend, and week ahead!
The Wonderful World of Sourcing ~
One night last week, I was online looking for a gift for Mother’s Day and I mused at the ease I was able to navigate the many sites evaluating products, pricing and delivery options. I spent a total of 45 minutes comparing sites and narrowing choices and finally placing my purchase in an online shopping cart and entering my credit card information. Presto! 2 days later the item is at my doorstep and my shopping experience is complete.
In our world of sourcing ingredients to make the quality products that we produce here at Essential Wholesale & Labs, we experience a much different reality. It would be so simple to look online and with a few mouse clicks, source the never-ending stream of raw ingredients that are required to maintain our business needs. The reality is that we source about 1700 raw ingredients to manufacture over 8000 formulations and variations of items that we sell on our website and to our Private Label customer base…
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