Surfactants

Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Considering the basic formula, ingredients we could add, thickening a surfactant based product (part two)

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Welcome back to this series on creating a clarifying shampoo! In part one, we took a look at all kinds of things, we need to know as we work through this series, like what’s a clarifying shampoo, what’s the deal with surfactants, what does it mean for our ingredients to have a charge, and so...

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Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Defining our product, looking at surfactants, defining charges (part one)

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One of my favourite things to do is play with liquid surfactants to create all kinds of lovely facial cleansers, foaming facial cleansers, body washes/shower gels, shampoos, bubble baths, and so much more. I love trying a bit of this surfactant, a bit of that one, and seeing what happens to the foam, bubbles, lather,...

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Super bubbly bubble bath! Formula with downloadable PDF (updated January 8, 2022)

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Click here to download this formula as a PDF! Super bubbly bubble bath formula from SwiftCraftyMonkey I’ve written quite a bit about bubble bath on the blog as it was one of my mum’s favourite products, I love to give it as presents, and it’s a great project to make with our youth programs as...

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Q&A: Is there a reason you use combination of SCI and SCMI in the powder cleansers?

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I’m sorry I couldn’t answer your question more quickly, as I mentioned in the update from November 30th and the Welcome to December 2021 post, I’m having great difficulty typing and have to rely on dictation for a lot of work right now. Thank you so much for your patience. In our monthly Q&A post, Togzhan asked, Could...

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Creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome autumnal extracts (part four, choosing fragrance/essential oils and the formula!) 

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Welcome back to our short series on creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome botanical extracts! In part one, we chose our surfactants and took a look at how we might increase mildness of the formula. In part two, we took look at some botanical extracts we could include in this foamy,...

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