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Formulating for dry skin: What other things could we include in our body wash?

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We’ve created our basic body wash recipe and we’re happy with it…but we could tweak it further! (We can ALWAYS do more tweaking, but it takes real skill to know when to stop!) So what kinds of things we could do to this recipe to make it more moisturizing and what ingredients will increase the...

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A few thoughts for the day: Cleansing conditioners & pH of our bodies

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I’ve been seeing these Wen Cleansing Conditioner ads on the TV quite regularly, and it seems like you’ve been seeing them, too. So here are a few posts I’ve written on this topic… Duplicating products: Cleansing conditioners How does the no-shampoo concept work? (This is where I analyze the Wen Cleansing Conditioner. My conclusion: They are...

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Formulating for dry skin: Creating a basic recipe for a body wash

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Yesterday we took a look at various ingredients we might like to include in a body wash, so let’s take that information and create a basic recipe for a body wash so we can play with all those wonderful ingredients that will moisturize and hydrate dry skin! BASIC BODY WASH FOR DRY SKINHEATED WATER PHASE10%...

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Formulating for dry skin: Creating a body wash from scratch

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For the purposes of this series on creating skin cleansers, I’m going to be using the same three surfactants – SCI or ACI, cocamidopropyl betaine, and polyglucose/lactylate blend in each product. You can choose any combination you want and just substitute one surfactant for the SCI and another surfactant for the polyglucose/lactylate blend. I really encourage...

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An aside…Working with SCI noodles, prills, or other solid forms

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If you’re planning to work with SCI (sodium cocoyl isethionate), remember that you need to melt it for quite some time before it is usable in your product. The best way to do this is to melt it with cocamidopropyl betaine, but you could use some anionic surfactants like the alkyl sulfosuccinates, alkyl ether sulfosuccinates, sodium...

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