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In this post, Additions to the base recipe, Cath said: I made the cleanser for dry skin as per the percentages advised but with surfactants available in Australia (maybe my research skills are poor but I simply could not locate exactly what was named on the list). The basic recipe was a nice viscosity after...
Let’s take a look at a few more comments about the facial cleansers you made last week based on this recipe or this recipe. (If you missed part one of these comments, please click here and see what your fellow readers are saying!) And look for part three shortly, too! Susan writes: Thank you for the Face Cleanser recipes – I...
Last week, we made a facial cleanser, then modified it by adding humectants and cationic polymers. This week, we’re talking about our recipes and how we could modify them to be more awesome for our skin type. Please join the conversation by commenting here, on the other posts, or by emailing me at swiftcraftymonkey@swiftcraftymonkey.blog Carol...
Wow, that was a lot to take in yesterday, eh? We took a look at formulating a few base recipes for facial cleansers for some different skin types. Today, we’ll look at the ingredients we used and a few others we could try using in this recipe. Here’s the base recipe we developed for normal...
Yay! The day is here! We’re creating a very basic facial cleanser recipe for each skin type, which you can try out, then modify it with all kinds of interesting ingredients over the next few days. Then we can get together next Tuesday to look at what you thought of the product and what changes...