Creating a cranberry, cornsilk & carrot foaming hand & facial cleanser! (Long post, four parts in one)

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...

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Creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome autumnal extracts (part four, choosing fragrance/essential oils and the formula!) 

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,...

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Creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome autumnal extracts (part three, choosing humectants, conditioners, preservatives, and chelating ingredients)

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...

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Creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome autumnal extracts (part two, choosing botanical extracts)

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,...

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Creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome autumnal extracts (part one, overview and choosing surfactants)

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...

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