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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part two) – new additions to the master batch! 

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I really loved this shampoo I made in 2023 – Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair – so I thought I’d make it again with some other botanical extracts as well as this gorgeous hair active, Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract,...

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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part one) – the formula! 

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A yellow liquid in a Pyrex jug with a large fork on it on a scale with three bottles of surfactant beside it. Taken in portrait mode.

Eeek! I am out of everything here at home! I make almost everything we use – except for toothpaste, anti-perspirant, and sunscreen – but I haven’t had a workshop day devoted to stocking up the essentials in a while, so I took some time before our Zoom workshop in February to make the base of...

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Happy holidays! Download another formula from my eco skin care class at Voyageur for an ECOCERT foaming cleanser!

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This was a bonus formula I shared with my eco skin care class I taught at Voyageur Soap & Candle in the before times for a sulfate free ECOCERT foaming facial cleanser using decyl glycoside that I thought I’d share with you as a celebration of my favourite month, December! facial cleansers extra voyageur june...

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Q&A: Can you use hydrolyzed proteins with xanthan gum in gelled facial cleansers? Part two, answering these questions!

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In the monthly Q&A, Samantha asked, I’m trying to learn more about gel facial cleansers thickened with more “natural” ingredients. I can’t seem to find the answer to this question after searching your blog. Should I not use hydrolyzed proteins in products thickened with xanthan gum? I’m learning to only use quaternized proteins in cationics, but...

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Q&A: Is there a reason you use combination of SCI and SCMI in the powder cleansers?

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I’m sorry I couldn’t answer your question more quickly, as I mentioned in the update from November 30th and the Welcome to December 2021 post, I’m having great difficulty typing and have to rely on dictation for a lot of work right now. Thank you so much for your patience. In our monthly Q&A post, Togzhan asked, Could...

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