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I love a good multiuse product, so I set out to create a product that would clean both my hands and face, dispensed from a foamer bottle. Luckily, the concepts are very similar – we want something that foams enough to feel cleansing but rinses off cleanly so we don’t have that dry or tacky...
Welcome back to our short series on creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome botanical extracts! In part one, we chose our surfactants and took a look at how we might increase mildness of the formula. In part two, we took look at some botanical extracts we could include in this foamy,...
Welcome back to our short series on creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome botanical extracts. In part one, we chose our surfactants and took a look at how we might increase mildness of the formula. Yesterday, in part two, we took look at some botanical extracts we could include in this...
Welcome back to our short series on creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome botanical extracts. In part one yesterday, we chose our surfactants and took a look at how we might increase mildness of the formula. Today, let’s take a look at some botanical extracts we could include in this foamy,...
I’ve received so many new ingredients this year – so many new botanical extracts, proteins, surfactants, and so much much more – that I decided to set myself a challenge to create a foaming, bubbling, lathering hand cleanser filled with things that remind me of autumn, all the aromas and colours of the season sealed...