Foamer bottles: How do they work? How to best dilute cleansers? And a bunch of formulas for these bottles

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I love foamer bottles so much! They make it possible to make foamy, bubbly, lathery™ products without having to thicken them, which is a joy when you get into working with surfactants hat are a pain in the bum to thicken without doing all kinds of work. Let’s take a moment to see what these...

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Newbie Tuesday: Making naturally compliant lotions with Ritamulse SCG (week eleven) – body lotion #2

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If you want to follow along and catch up on the series, scroll down to see the links or visit the Beginners! Start here page and scroll down a bit.  Last week, we made the first of three body lotions – a non-greasy version with fractionated coconut oil, non-greasy oils, and mango butter. This week,...

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Q&A: How do we determine how much emulsifier to use? (And the 25% rule for Polawax)

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In week ten of the Newbie Tuesday series, making naturally compliant lotions with Ritamulse SCG, Leslie asked, How do you determine how much Ritamulse to use? Seems like you don’t use the 25% rule. 8% seems to have been too thick in the past. If total oil phase is somewhere between 20%-25% is there a...

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Surfactants: Plantapon® TF (Decyl Glucoside (and) Polyglyceryl-10 Caprylate/Caprate (and) Coco Glucoside (and) Glyceryl Oleate)

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Let’s meet this new natural surfactant blend Plantapon® TF by BASF – INCI: Decyl Glucoside (and) Polyglyceryl-10 Caprylate/Caprate (and) Coco Glucoside (and) Glyceryl Oleate. It’s a blend of gentle to mild, non-ionic foamy, bubbly, lathery surfactants and non-ionic thickeners and emollients that can create tear-free cleansers with a skin friendly pH of 4.5 to 5.5,...

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Surfactants! Alkyl polyglucosides (including decyl glucoside, caprylyl/capryl glucoside, lauryl glucoside, and coco glucoside)

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Before we can get into using Plantapon TF (INCI: Decyl Glucoside (and) Polyglyceryl-10 Caprylate/Caprate (and) Coco Glucoside (and) Glyceryl Oleate), I need to share more about these interesting, non-ionic surfactants called alkyl polyglucosides! I wrote about these many years ago, but thought it was time to update that information and get into more chemistry! Decyl glucoside...

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