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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. As I mentioned in this post, no one wants to have that horrible tight and dry feeling after we’ve washed our skin, and we need to make sure we’re keeping that...
We created a really basic recipe yesterday for a surfactant based facial scrub, and I think we need to take a bit of time to modify it so we can include mildness enhancers, thickeners, and lovely extracts our skin will like. This post will be about including humectants, then we’ll take a look at including...
We covered step one – choosing our surfactants – in this post. We took a look at how to make our product rinse off more cleanly in this post. I touched a little bit on pH in surfactant based products in this post. So it feels like time to create the basics of our base...
Every few days I see someone commenting on a post from a few years ago starting their comment with this, “I know this is an old post…” and it might be, but isn’t the point to get as much information into one place? So please, comment away! It means we can gather information and opinions...
Sorry for the last few days – life and work have become insanely busy, and I’m trying to figure out how I can use my new iPad to blog on the go! Don’t you love this case? It’s a pattern by Whistlepig Creek Productions, the e-Cozy Palooza for the iPad mini. It was super easy...