Surfactants

Creating a super gentle foamer bottle hand cleanser with Plantapon® TF: Part two, humectants, emollients & conditioners)

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Welcome back to our series on making a super gentle foamer bottle cleanser with Plantapon TF. In part one, we took a look at the primary and secondary surfactants yesterday: Today, we’ll be looking at how we can make this formula milder, more hydrating, and more conditioning by adding emollients, conditioners, and humectants. Adding emolliency...

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Creating a super gentle foamer bottle hand cleanser with Plantapon® TF: Part one, surfactants

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Thanks for joining me today as we make a super gentle foamy, bubbly, lathery™ hand cleanser using Plantapon TF as our main surfactant. Plantapon® TF (INCI: Decyl Glucoside (and) Polyglyceryl-10 Caprylate/Caprate (and) Coco Glucoside (and) Glyceryl Oleate) is a blend of gentle to mild, non-ionic foamy, bubbly, lathery surfactants and non-ionic thickeners and emollients that...

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Creating a foaming facial cleanser with Plantapon® TF: Clary sage, tea tree & chamomile for dry to normal skin types (formula), part two

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Welcome back to part two! We’re making foaming facial cleansers using Plantapon® TF (INCI: Decyl Glucoside (and) Polyglyceryl-10 Caprylate/Caprate (and) Coco Glucoside (and) Glyceryl Oleate, a blend of gentle to mild, non-ionic foamy, bubbly, lathery surfactants and non-ionic thickeners and emollients that can create tear-free cleansers with a skin friendly pH of 4.5 to 5.5,...

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Q&A: Euxyl PE 9010: What does “high levels of surfactants” mean when it comes to inactivating it?

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Quick note: The picture above is of the bubble baths we made in our live Zoom meeting on May 2nd, the formulas for which you can find as a post and as a PDF by clicking this post. This formula doesn’t contain the surfactants I mention in this post: I chose this shot because I...

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Creating a foaming facial cleanser with Plantapon® TF: Reviewing the ingredients (part one)

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Plantapon® TF (INCI: Decyl Glucoside (and) Polyglyceryl-10 Caprylate/Caprate (and) Coco Glucoside (and) Glyceryl Oleate) It’s a blend of gentle to mild, non-ionic foamy, bubbly, lathery surfactants and non-ionic thickeners and emollients that can create tear-free cleansers with a skin friendly pH of 4.5 to 5.5, used at around 20%. It’s a wonderful cleanser for all...

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