Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Surfactants – pH, ASM, and “safe as used rates” (part three)

Welcome back to this series on creating a clarifying shampoo! In part one, we took a look at all kinds of things, we need to know as we work through this series, like what’s a clarifying shampoo, what’s the deal with surfactants, what does it mean for our ingredients to have a charge, and so...

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Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Considering the basic formula, ingredients we could add, thickening a surfactant based product (part two)

Welcome back to this series on creating a clarifying shampoo! In part one, we took a look at all kinds of things, we need to know as we work through this series, like what’s a clarifying shampoo, what’s the deal with surfactants, what does it mean for our ingredients to have a charge, and so...

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Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Defining our product, looking at surfactants, defining charges (part one)

One of my favourite things to do is play with liquid surfactants to create all kinds of lovely facial cleansers, foaming facial cleansers, body washes/shower gels, shampoos, bubble baths, and so much more. I love trying a bit of this surfactant, a bit of that one, and seeing what happens to the foam, bubbles, lather,...

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Welcome to February 2022!

How is it already February 2022? It feels like it was Christmas yesterday! I’m looking forward to a bit of snow this week – not too much, please, I’d still like to get out and about to get groceries and such in my tiny car with all-season tires – and Groundhog Day on the 2nd … Read more

Q&A: What can we do to make the floor less slippery after using an emulsified scrub?

In this month’s Q&A, Eliza asked, I’ve just prescribed with your blog😊. I am working on emulsified body sugar scrubs. I have tried your recipe emulsified scrub with BTMS. I love the feeling of the skin after this scrub, it’s moisturised and supple. I love this emulsifier on a skin. But the shower floor is quite...

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