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Q&A: What’s the emulsifier in a shampoo bar?

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“What’s the emulsifier in this shampoo bar formula?” someone asked about a solid shampoo bar that contained butters and other oil soluble ingredients. The short answer is that there isn’t a need for an emulsifier in a shampoo bar that doesn’t contain water because we only need to worry about emulsifiers when we have oil...

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#alltheingredients: Fision® WrinkleFix (INCI: Water, Hydrolyzed Rice Protein, Hydrolyzed Pea Protein, Glycine, Proline, Hydrolyzed Sodium Hyaluronate) – active, cosmeceutical for reducing the appearance of age spots and wrinkles

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Q&A: What’s the safe as used percentage for sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI)? (Updated for 2023)

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Rochelle asked in the Q&A for October, I have read a few conflicting stories/posts from different formulation type blogs about the safe usage levels of sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI) in solid products like shampoo bars. One school of thought seems to be that the maximum usage rate of SCI is 49.5% (or thereabouts) and the...

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Welcome to April 2023

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Hi everyone! Welcome to April 2023! March 2023 was a pretty hard month for us health wise. Raymond is currently in bed with COVID, feeling pretty awful, and all the medical stuff I had going on in December has started up again with loads of tests and travelling to appointments and such, and I’m feeling … Read more

Hey $10 subscribers! In lieu of this month’s e-book, we have a $25 coupon for you!

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Hi everyone! I’m terribly sorry that there isn’t an e-book this month. I’ve been doing poorly for the last few weeks and Raymond just tested positive for COVID, so we couldn’t finish the e-book in time. (Click here to read more about what’s going on with my health. There will be more updates next week.) ...

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