Yesterday, we started creating this shampoo bar formula from scratch by looking at the powdered surfactants. Today, we’ll look at the liquid surfactants you can use in this formula. Quite honestly, there may be hundreds of choices for liquid surfactants we could purchase, so the easiest way to make some decisions is to consider our...

Yesterday, we met a new powdered surfactant – sodium coco sulfate or SCS – and used it in a potential duplication for Lush’s Jumping Juniper shampoo bar. In both posts, I mentioned repeatedly that we need to reduce the pH to be more acidic as alkaline products – those over pH 8 – are just...