Experiments from the workshop: Suspending jojoba beads in foamy facial cleansers

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The other day, we met these colourful exfoliants. Today, let’s take a look at a few ways of incorporating them to create a foamy, bubbly, exfoliating cleanser. It’s not easy to suspend exfoliants as they naturally want to fall to the bottom or float at the top of a product. To create a product in...

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Member exclusive Q&A: What’s that goop in my surfactant bottle?

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In the March Q&A, Doris asked: I finished up a litre bottle of Bioterge today and was surprised to find quite a large amount (maybe 10-15% of the total) of a solid/gel/something like that at the bottom of the bottle. I went to get the new bottle I received just a week ago and discovered...

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Member exclusive Q&A: How do you decide which form of an ingredient is best?

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In the February Q&A, Nadia asked: My questions today have to do with choosing which form of an ingredient to use in a particular formula. For example with Calendula I could use an infusion, an essential oil, or an extract, either oil or water soluble. In this case I am talking about making a lotion, so I...

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Discussion: What’s your favourite product to make? What’s your least?

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This is a hard question for me as I really love making so many things so I have to think for a bit… Okay, I think my favourite thing to make is body wash. I love figuring out nice surfactant combinations, working with humectants to hydrate my skin after bathing, adding cationic polymers like polyquat...

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Ingredient: Jojoba beads

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We’ve made two cleansing products with Siligel as the thickener – this rose & chamomile facial cleanser and this body wash with Miracare Soft 313 – so I thought we should take a look at one of the exfoliants I use the most in facial products, jojoba beads. Jojoba beads are not plastic micro beads....

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