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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...
Welcome back to this short series on making Honeycomb’s Big! vanilla, honey & ginger gentle foaming hand cleanser with Plantapon® SF and Lamesoft® PO 65 along with all kinds of hydrosols, botanical extracts, and humectants. You can find part one of this series by clicking here now! And find part two in which we chose...
Welcome back to this short series on making Honeycomb’s Big! vanilla, honey & ginger gentle foaming hand cleanser with Plantapon® SF and Lamesoft® PO 65 along with all kinds of hydrosols, botanical extracts, and humectants. You can find part one of this series by clicking here now! INSERT Let’s look at preservatives and such! In...
I was very kindly sent both Lamesoft® PO 65 (INCI: Coco glucoside and glyceryl oleate) and Plantapon® SF (INCI: Sodium cocoamphoacetate, Glycerin, Lauryl glucoside, Sodium cocoyl glutamate, Sodium lauryl glucose carboxylate) along with these gorgeous 350 ml clear glass foamer bottle with white foamer pump by Voyageur Soap & Candle, so I thought we should take a look...
Welcome back to our series on making a super gentle foamer bottle cleanser with Plantapon TF. In part one, we took a look at the primary and secondary surfactants. In part two, we look at how to make this formula milder, more hydrating, and more conditioning by adding emollients, conditioners, and humectants. In part three,...