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Weekend Wonderings: Using salicylic acid without alcohol and making a face cream absorb better

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In the Weekend Wondering post, Topher asks: I want to create a 2% salicylic acid toner without alcohol. I noticed that in your toner recipes you do not use alcohol, yet the SA is completely dissolved. How do you do this?  To be honest, I use white willow bark most of the time because I don’t...

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Facial cleansers: Creating a low surfactant facial cleanser

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I’ve had a few people comment that I use a high concentation of surfactants in my products, so I set out to create a foaming facial cleanser that had low levels of extremely mild surfactants I could use after my Viking workout when I’ve recently washed my face. I also thought it would be a...

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Weekend wonderings: Chemical and physical exfoliants together in a facial scrub, using sodium lactate, making shampoo, and hair treatments

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In this post, Julie asks:  I was wondering if it would be too abrasive to use a chemical exfoliant together with a physical exfoliant? I’d like to do a SA surfactant based facial scrub with a gentle exfoliator, like jojoba beads or something. What do you think? It depends upon your skin type. I’ve tried it...

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Facial scrubs: More exfoliants…

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We took a look at using BC Glacial clay, jojoba beads, and dermabrasion crystals in our surfactant based cleanser in yesterday’s post, yesterday. Let’s take a look at a few other exfoliants we could add. AUSTRALIAN PINK CLAY (INCI Kaolin clay)I bought some of this from Voyageur Soap & Candle because it’s supposed to be good for...

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Facial scrubs: Using the surfactant base to make scrubs! Part 1

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It’s been a while, but my testers have responded, so here are the results!  I’m working with the base surfactant for oily skin we figured out in this post. If you don’t know what the ingredients are, you’ll find them in that post or in the ingredients list or the surfactants section of the blog. Part...

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