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So we’ve taken a look at a few versions of a 3-in-1 product. So you aren’t out there buying a ton of ingredients, check out the surfactant posts or the chart to see which ones will work best for your needs. Here’s the basic skeleton of the recipe I’ve been using for the last few...
Let’s re-build this 3-in-1 product from scratch to see how we can obtain the same goals with completely different ingredients! Let’s take a look at our surfactants first, because this is the place I start every surfactant based product. I always want to include cocamidopropyl betaine at 10% or higher, and I think I’ll use...
We had great fun last night making Christmas cards at the library. I worried we’d have a low turn-out due to the ice and snow, but we had 23 youth in the meeting room making all kinds of lovely cards! We also had fun in Yarrow on Tuesday making cards, and on Monday at the...
Happy 1000th post! To celebrate, I’ve put together a PDF of my ten favourite recipes, those recipes I simply can’t live without, as a thank you to my lovely readers. I started this blog in late February 2009 with the goal of sharing some of the information I had gathered and a few of my...
Yesterday we established our goals and ingredients for making a 3-in-1 body wash with a 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioner, so let’s take a look at different ingredient combinations! I’ve chosen SCI as the basis for this product. If you have dry hair, consider using SCI with stearic acid. If you have oily hair, consider using SCI without...