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I’m so excited you want to make shampoo bars and that you’re buying the new e-book – Shampoo Bars You Will Love: Creating pH balanced bars – and my first ever single issue formula e-zine – One Shampoo Bar, Four Ways – but I am being bombarded in every possible way by questions on my personal...
As I mentioned in this post on murumuru butter, I’ve gone on a bit of a spending spree over the last 18 months for all kinds of ingredients, including some new and interesting butters. I’ve fallen in love with cupuacu butter, as well as murumuru butter and tucuma butter. I’ve also been having some fun...
Last week, I introduced you to one of my favourite new butters – tucuma butter – so I thought today I’d share with you the awesome new emulsified scrub bar I created with it. When I make scrub bars, I tend to make the base, then add the scrubby stuff outside of the main formula...
This is the first single formula issue of Adventures in Cosmetic Chemistry – One shampoo bar, four ways. In this edition, we’re using sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI) and SLSa along with a few different liquid surfactants, proteins, conditioning ingredients, and humectants to create pH balanced shampoo bars, then modify them to become clarifying, moisturizing, conditioning, and...
I’ve been working on this feverishly for weeks, but it’s finally ready: My new e-book, Shampoo bars you will love: Creating pH balanced bars! The write up: This new, special edition of Adventures in Cosmetic Chemistry delves into how to make pH balanced shampoo bars using liquid and powdered surfactants, and all kinds of other...