Surfactants: Cleansing descriptions and increasing mildness – micelles

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Micelles are a super important part of surfactant mildness, so let’s take a look at what they are and why we should care. Micelles are defined as “an aggregate of surfactant molecules dispersed in a liquid colloid”. A colloid is a type of mixture in which one substance is evenly dispersed throughout another. There’s generally...

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Surfactants: Cleansing descriptions and increasing mildness – introduction

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In this post, The new e-zine, Surfactants: Making Foaming Facial Cleansers, Marta asked: Would you explain the different cleansing descriptions in relative terms the next time you’re discussing surfactants? Is gentle less irritating than mild or the other way around? In “Surfactants: A Reference Guide,” sodium cocoyl isethionate has mild to gentle cleansing while Miracare Soft...

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Formula: Making a few Vick’s like products with essential oils for cold & flu season

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After sharing the post yesterday – Formula: Essential oil blend that might be like Saje’s Peppermint Halo Headache Remedy – Raymond remarked that we needed more of that Vick’s like jelly as one of us is bound to be sick sooner rather than later. Then I realized I hadn’t shared this with you, so it’s time...

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Formula: Essential oil blend that might be like Saje’s Peppermint Halo Headache Remedy

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I was leafing through my lab notebook today, and I came across these essential oil blends I made up some time in 2016 to smell a bit like the Peppermint Halo Headache Remedy by Saje. It seems like I need to use this one a lot lately… Their product, which is $29 for 10 ml!, contains peppermint...

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Q&A: Do oils have a pH? Can we test the pH of an anhydrous product? If so, what’s the procedure? And a little on pH meters… 

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In the October Q&A, Michelle asked: I am wondering if one can test the pH of an anhydrous product? I am making a lovely anhydrous deodorant and would like to proceed with some testing/data gathering. Which meter would be most useful? I have the Jenco Vision Plus but products need to be diluted in water for...

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