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Facial scrubs: Creating a surfactant based scrub – rinsing off cleanly

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Yep, that tight feeling you get after washing isn’t about removing oils from your skin – although that can be an issue with repeated washings – but about the surfactant rinsing off cleanly! What has been shown to be an essential component of skin tightness is the film left on your skin after rinsing off the...

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Facial scrubs: Creating a surfactant based scrub – introduction and choosing our surfactants

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Why choose a surfactant based scrub over an oil based or emulsified one? A few reasons! Some of us can’t tolerate loads of oils, and a surfactant based scrub is less likely to be comedogenic or acnegenic. Secondly, you clean while you exfoliate, so it does two jobs in one! (Some would argue that the...

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List of facial scrub products

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Since I have to run out the door this morning, I thought I’d put up these links for scrubs in anticipation of the posts for the next week on surfactant based and lotion based scrubs! We will get into more detail and analyze them further over the next few days! SURFACTANT BASEDSurfactants: Formulating facial cleansersFormulating...

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Facial scrubs: Which exfoliants to choose? Chemical exfoliants

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As much as we love our physical exfoliants (part 1 and part 2), don’t forget about the awesome power of the chemical exfoliants we can add to products that include water or alcohol. And since I’ve already written huge posts on each of these ingredients, I’ll encourage you to click on the link if you...

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Only you know what your skin can handle!

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I’m not trying to be mean when I say I can’t come up with oil combinations for you because I really can’t! It’s all about your individual skin’s preferences and sensitivies, and learning what you can handle can take some serious time! If an ingredient is acnegenic, it can take up to seven days for...

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