pH

Weekend Wonderings: Magacamianussol?, new ingredients, and the importance of pH in a shampoo

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Have a weekend wondering? Have a question for which you can’t find an answer or something that’s been bugging you for weeks? Visit this post and share your weekend wondering with us! DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT MAGACAMIANUSSOL MIGHT BE?In this post, Lise asks: Have you ever come across this ingredient: Magacamianussöl (from an ingredients list...

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Chemistry Thursday on Friday: Let’s take a look at pH

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pH is so important when it comes to creating rinse off and leave in products, especially facial products or those based on foaming and lathery surfactants. Using a product with an out of whack pH on our skin can lead to an increase in scaling, a decrease in hydration, and a possible increase in bacterial...

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Question: Can you use castille soap as a facial cleanser?

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I’ve had quite a few comments or e-mails about this topic – can you use your hand made soap as a facial cleanser? – and yes, you can use castille soap as a facial cleanser. It’s lovely stuff and cleans nicely! However… Our skin has a pH between 4.7 and 5.5, and we generally formulate...

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Question: pH and bath products

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Lalla commented in this post…I have read that the pH of bath products does not matter much. The reason for that would be that we mostly use water when washing our hair or skin and the water brings the cleanser to a pH around 7 no matter what. I don’t know if I’m clear enough....

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