Facial scrubs: Adding physical exfoliants to the surfactant base

The first step in turning our surfactant based facial cleanser into a scrub is to choose our physical exfoliants. Some will be great choices, some will be terrible, and some will be all about your preferences and your budget! (Please visit this post and this post to see the complete and detailed list about these...

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Facial scrubs: Tweaking the surfactant base recipe!

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one, part two, part three, and part four.  I think we’ve come up with a few ideas for surfactant bases that will work for various skin types.  As with any product you want to make, learning about...

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Facial scrubs: Working on our surfactant base recipe – part 4 (thickening!)

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one and part two and part three. One of the other things to consider for this facial scrub is thickening as it is going to be quite watery with 40% surfactants! We took a look at using glycol distearate...

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Facial scrubs: Working on our surfactant base – part 3

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one and part two.  As I mentioned in this post, no one wants to have that horrible tight and dry feeling after we’ve washed our skin, and we need to make sure we’re keeping that...

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Facial scrubs: Working on our surfactant base recipe – part 2

We created a really basic recipe yesterday for a surfactant based facial scrub, and I think we need to take a bit of time to modify it so we can include mildness enhancers, thickeners, and lovely extracts our skin will like. This post will be about including humectants, then we’ll take a look at including...

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