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Creating an apres sun cooling & soothing spray (part three, additional ingredients and modified formula) – aloe vera & olive leaf

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Welcome back to this short series on making a lovely cooling and soothing apres sun spray. In part one, we looked at some ingredients we could use to create a base formula. In part two, we chose our preservatives, then made the base formula. Today, in part three, we’ll investigate at a few more ingredients...

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Q&A: How would you modify a shampoo bar formula to be a “no more tears” product? Part four, overview of testing pH and our formula!

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Welcome to part four of this series on how we might create a “no more tears” kind of shampoo bar using various anionic, non-ionic, and amphoteric surfactants. In part one, we reviewed the surfactants that Alexander noted she has in her workshop – sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI), foaming apple surfactant, decyl glucoside, and Cocamidopropyl Betaine –...

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Creating an apres sun cooling & soothing spray (part two, preservatives and base formula) 

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Welcome back to this short series on making a lovely cooling and soothing apres sun spray. In part one, we looked at some ingredients we could use to create a base formula. Today, in part two, we’ll choose some preservatives, then make the base formula. Let’s choose some preservatives!  When it comes to preservatives, note...

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Q&A: Modifying a quick refreshing scalp spray – part three, creating a salicylic acid spray, then comparing the three formulas we’ve created (formula)

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Welcome back to this short series in which we’re modifying a formula for a quick spray refresher I created back in 2017 intended to soothe, protect, condition, moisturize, and cool annoyed, itchy, or otherwise perturbed scalps. In part one, we created a formula removing the ingredients Tiba didn’t want to use. In part two,  let’s...

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Q&A: Modifying a quick refreshing scalp spray – part one, altering the ingredients (formula)

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In the Q&A post, Tiba asked, I’d like to ask about salicylic acid toners. I want to make a toner that decreases oiliness of scalp, sprayed 10-15 minutes before bath time on scalp. My only experience with formulating is making Salicylic acid with ethanol 99% (absolute alcohol), TCA (?) with purified water. But for the scalp...

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