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I do love a good body wash, and I think I have versions for every skin type and every climate possibility. But my very favourite recipe is this one, the body wash with ester. If you don’t have the ingredients for this recipe, use any one you want, but remember this – if you remove...
Well, we’re in for a party today, my friends! I’ve been experimenting with ammonium cocoyl isethionate (ACI) in place of sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI) in my body wash, face wash, and hand wash! Yes, get on your party hats and grab some of those blowy things that make noise – but leave the confetti at...
I am a big fan of the emulsified scrub, so it made sense to try this new fatty alcohol in one! I love my black cocoa sugar scrub, and thought adding behenyl alcohol would only make it that more awesome. (As a note, this recipe can be done with regular cocoa butter, but I was out of...
I thought I’d try using behenyl alcohol in an intense conditioner with butters and oils. It makes sense, because people who have hair so dry or so brittle that they need to use butters in a conditioner, could probably benefit from the added slip and conditioning of this fatty alcohol. I chose this recipe (found...
I do love my conditioners, and I thought I’d experiment further with one I experimented with last October – my intense conditioner with all my conditioning agents! – by adding a little behenyl alcohol to the mix. Point of interest: Adding a fatty alcohol to a cationic quaternary compound – like BTMS, BTMS-50, cetrimonium bromide,...