Creating an apres sun cooling & soothing spray (part three, additional ingredients and modified formula) – aloe vera & olive leaf

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Welcome back to this short series on making a lovely cooling and soothing apres sun spray. In part one, we looked at some ingredients we could use to create a base formula. In part two, we chose our preservatives, then made the base formula. Today, in part three, we’ll investigate at a few more ingredients...

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Q&A quickie: What can you substitute for LSB in a solid shampoo bar (syndet bar)?

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I don’t think we can find the surfactant blend called LSB any more – in North America at least – as it’s been altered to have a very short shelf life of 6 months, so what can you do as a replacement? The short answer is that you can use any liquid surfactant suitable for...

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Q&A: Can I dissolve a shampoo bar into water to make a liquid shampoo?

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I’m seeing these two questions asked quite a lot in the various solid shampoo bar groups I’m in – including the one I moderate, Syndet Shampoo Bars – and the short answer is no, you can’t dissolve a shampoo bar into water to make a liquid shampoo. Why? Let’s take a look at a few...

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Don’t forget about squalane! (Updated July 15, 2022)

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Original post, May 5, 2015. Updated July 15, 2022.  In our haste to use the newest oils we can find, we sometimes forget about the oils that we might have purchased in the past. One of the oils I’m rediscovering is squalane, a bio-identical oil that we find in our skin’s sebum at around 12%....

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Cosmetic chemistry terms: Structuring agent (also known as thickeners)

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This is a term you’ll be seeing quite a bit on the blog in the future, so let’s take a look at what this means. As a note, I’ve added a shorter version of this post into the glossary so it’ll come up in ever post from now on as a clickable link.  A structuring...

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