A facial cleanser with clay!

I found this recipe on Voyageur Soap & Candle’s site a while ago – I can’t seem to find it now on their site! – and I thought I’d share my tweaks for this product. We’ve made it with the craft group a few times, and the ingredients I chose were to help with the...

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Facial scrubs: Adding physical exfoliants to the surfactant base

The first step in turning our surfactant based facial cleanser into a scrub is to choose our physical exfoliants. Some will be great choices, some will be terrible, and some will be all about your preferences and your budget! (Please visit this post and this post to see the complete and detailed list about these...

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Facial scrubs: Tweaking the surfactant base recipe!

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one, part two, part three, and part four.  I think we’ve come up with a few ideas for surfactant bases that will work for various skin types.  As with any product you want to make, learning about...

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Question: Can you use castille soap as a facial cleanser?

I’ve had quite a few comments or e-mails about this topic – can you use your hand made soap as a facial cleanser? – and yes, you can use castille soap as a facial cleanser. It’s lovely stuff and cleans nicely! However… Our skin has a pH between 4.7 and 5.5, and we generally formulate...

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Facial scrubs: Working on our surfactant base recipe – part 4 (thickening!)

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one and part two and part three. One of the other things to consider for this facial scrub is thickening as it is going to be quite watery with 40% surfactants! We took a look at using glycol distearate...

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