
Troubleshooting Emulsions: Why Creams Break and How to Repair Them
Let’s be honest, creating a beautifully stable cream is both an art and a science. You mix your phases, add your emulsifier, blend with hope and excitement… and then boom, your cream looks perfect. Until it doesn’t. A few hours or days later, it separates, curdles, or turns watery. Frustrating? Oh yes. But also completely fixable and more common than you’d think. As a professional formulator, I can tell you,