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I think this will be the longest duplication by far! We’ve been reviewing the ingredient list for this product over the last few days – part one, part two, and part three – and we started reviewing how much of each ingredient we might use yesterday, so let’s keep going with that review. Ingredients: Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin,...
We’ve been reviewing the ingredient list for this product over the last few days – part one, part two, and part three – so let’s take a look at how much of each ingredient we might use. Step four: Figure out how much of each ingredient to use. How do I know how much of...
As we saw yesterday, there are all kinds of different botanical extracts we can add to our shampoo to make it just that little bit more awesome! Today, let’s add some exfoliating extracts to help with dandruff or dry skin. The goal is to use extracts and ingredients that cause desquamation or the process of...
If this is the first post you’ve seen on this topic, we’ve been working on it for a while. Here’s the list so far… Making shampoo bars with sodium coco sulfate: Duplication of the Lush Jumping Juniper shampoo bar Surfactants: Sodium coco sulfate or SCS Creating a shampoo bar from scratch: Powdered surfactants Creating a...
On Friday, we enjoyed part one of this review of the ingredient list for the Lala Retro™ Whipped Cream by Drunk Elephant, and continued the review with part two yesterday. Let’s finish up the review. Ingredients: Water/Aqua/Eau, Glycerin, Caprylic/ Capric Triglyceride, Isopropyl Isostearate, Pseudozyma Epicola/Camellia Sinensis Seed Oil/Glucose/Glycine Soja Meal/Malt Extract/Yeast Extract Ferment Filtrate (Pseudozyma...