Question from Patreon: How does a mud cleanser clean your skin without surfactants?

In September Q&A for Patreon, Jaime asked: How on does May Lindstrom’s Honey Mud cleanse your skin without a surfactant? Ingredients: Raw Honey w/Bee Pollen & Propolis, White Clay, Macadamia Nut Oil, Witch Hazel, Collodial Silver, Cocoa Absolute Oil, Sweet Orange EO, Ylang Ylang, Vanilla Co2, Cedarwood, Frankincense, & Myrrh EO I’m going off on...

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Modifying the cream cleanser for normal who like oils and normal to oily skin for those who don’t (formulas)

Yep, us normal to oily types can use a cream cleanser with some modifications. If you have normal skin, I’d leave out the stearic acid and avoid the SCI containing stearic acid as it really is too moisturizing for your skin type. You can choose from a variety of surfactants – SMC or SMO taurate...

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Formulating a cream cleanser for dry skin (formula)

I like cream cleansers. They feel really nice on our skin going on and we don’t generally get that annoying tightness after rinsing. But they don’t tend to play nicely with oily skin because of all those wonderful re-fatteners and oil based moisturizers. If you have dry skin, you’re in luck, though! If you have...

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Foamer bottles: Hand wash

I do like the foamer bottle – and not just because it’s lime green (as you can see from this picture, you can get them in a variety of colours)! I’ve been working on a post-crafting hand wash…and the nice thing about the foamer is I can include all kinds of ingredients that would normally...

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