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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...
I was very kindly sent this ingredient, Lamesoft® PO 65 (INCI: Coco glucoside and glyceryl oleate) by Voyageur Soap & Candle, so I thought we should take a look at it before I share a few formulas I’ve created with it! We met glyceryl oleate yesterday, and met coco glucoside in this post on alkyl...
Welcome back to the process of creating this awesome astringent, cooling, de-griming, and hydrating mister with loads of hydrosols! In Tuesday’s post, we chose our hydrosols (floral waters, distillates) and humectants. In Wednesday’s post, we chose our preservatives and took a quick look at the concept of solubility. In yesterday’s post, we made the formula and...