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It’s Wednesday — that means it’s shower time! You can’t join me as I sing very very loudly*, make quite a mess with all that foam and lather, and probably have it far too cold for most people’s taste, but I can share some of my routine and all the products I make for such...
I have a post on the site about this ingredient as polyglucose/lactylate blend, but I wanted to update it with all the new information I’ve learned in the last 12 years and with this awesome chart. The blend of decyl glucoside and sodium lauroyl lactylate can be found under a few different names – Ritafactant 138...
Welcome to March, the month of spring and flowers and showers and maybe some cherry blossoms? February 28 is the official anniversary of this blog as Point of Interest, which started its life in 2008 as a way to share handouts and tutorials with the youth in our Rated T for Teen crafting program (on … Read more
For February 2022 subscribers only. You can buy the e-book from the store if you weren’t a subscriber for the month of February 2022. Woo hoo! I’m so excited to share my new e-book with you, Surfactants: Milder combinations for gentler products. This one is huge! 98 pages, over 30,000 words, with formulas for body...
In the Q&A, Taylor Soapworks (Christy) asked, Hi Susan! More of a praise/comment than a question, but there are questions running through my head, too. I’m having difficulty wrapping my brain around the positively/negatively charged surfactants — but certainly not because you fail to explain — it just hasn’t clicked for me yet. So while bar...