scrubs

Creating a pumpkin seed & orange oil degreasing foaming bath butter scrub

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In yesterday’s post, we used foaming bath butter (aka foaming bath whip) to create some lovely exfoliating scrubs with jojoba beads. Today, let’s look at how we can use foaming bath butter, jojoba beads, and pumice to create a garden or kitchen scrub. As a note, I’m still in bed in pain, so I apologize...

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Foaming bath butter scrubs with jojoba beads

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I really enjoy creating face and body scrubs with this foaming bath butter, so I thought we could incorporate some jojoba beads to create an exfoliating body scrub. Let’s alter this formula – foaming bath butter with walnut shells – to incorporate jojoba beads instead. If you’d like to learn more about foaming bath butter, click...

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Experiments from the workshop: Suspending jojoba beads in foamy facial cleansers

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The other day, we met these colourful exfoliants. Today, let’s take a look at a few ways of incorporating them to create a foamy, bubbly, exfoliating cleanser. It’s not easy to suspend exfoliants as they naturally want to fall to the bottom or float at the top of a product. To create a product in...

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Weekend Wonderings: How much preservative to use in an emulsified scrub?

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In this post, Using black cocoa butter in emulsified scrubs, Vintage Blue asked: If I’m reading this right the preservative goes into the mix before I add the sugar. So I only calculate the preservative based on the weight of the oil mix not the oil and sugar? Wouldn’t i be short on preservative if...

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Weekday Wonderings: Substitutes for parabens in an emulsified scrub?

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In this post, One ingredient, ten products: Incroquat BTMS-50 in an emulsified scrub, Febe asks: Love the recipe. I am concerned about Phenonip and the parabens. As I see the INCI Phenonip is Phenoxyethanol (and) Methylparaben (and) Ethylparaben (and) Butylparaben (and) Propylparaben. It has parabens and I am trying to stay away from them. I see...

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