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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...
I’ve just released a special issue of Adventures in Cosmetic Chemistry: Shampoo Bars You Will Love: Creating pH balanced bars. This is not this month’s e-zine; this is a special one I decided to write in light of all the shampoo bar formulas I’m seeing lately that aren’t pH balanced. The write up: This new,...
Tucuma butter (INCI: Astrocaryum tucuma seed butter) is derived from the kernel of the fruit of the Amazon palm tree, astrocaryum tucuma. It’s a solid white to off-white butter at room temperature that melts with an average melting point of 28˚C to 38˚C or 83-97°F, which is lower than body temperature. It comes as a...