Facial scrubs: Creating a surfactant based scrub – introduction and choosing our surfactants

Why choose a surfactant based scrub over an oil based or emulsified one? A few reasons! Some of us can’t tolerate loads of oils, and a surfactant based scrub is less likely to be comedogenic or acnegenic. Secondly, you clean while you exfoliate, so it does two jobs in one! (Some would argue that the...

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Facial products – tweaking the emulsified scrubs

As we saw yesterday, we can make lovely emulsified scrubs for our faces if we tweak the ingredients slightly. So let’s take a look at a few more versions we could make! As a quick aside, doesn’t that look delicious? I’ve told the story before, but my husband looked at and smelled a batch I...

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Facial scrubs: Emulsified scrubs – template recipe and tweak!

If you’ve been around the blog longer than five minutes, you’ll surely know one of the products I could not live without is the emulsified sugar scrub. I love the fact that it exfoliates and moisturizes my skin with the added bonus of washing off more cleanly than an oil based scrub. It isn’t much...

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Facial scrubs: Adding essential oils to an oil based scrub

I am asked all the time about adding essential oils to facial products and the short answer is yes, you can use essential oils in facial products. The long answer is slightly longer…And as usual, please treat essential oils with respect, acknowledging that they aren’t just about adding scent to a product, they may also...

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Facial scrubs: Adding oil based extracts

Oil soluble extracts of things we’d normally use as water soluble ingredients can add a little oomph to our oil based facial scrubs. A lot of these you’ll find are extracts in fractionated coconut oil (capric/caprylic triglycerides) or a fairly neutral oil, like sweet almond oil. Let’s take a look at a few of them...

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