Surfactants

Experiments in the workshop: Making foaming shower oils with Lumorol K 5229 (INCI: MIPA-Laureth Sulfate, Laureth-4, Propylene Glycol)

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Welcome back to this short series on using this new-to-me ingredient, LUMOROL K 5229 (INCI: MIPA-Laureth Sulfate, Laureth-4, Propylene Glycol), an anionic blend of surfactants that create waterless foamy, bubbly, lathery™ cleansers, like shower oils, oil-based cleansers, foaming bath products, foaming bath cubes, and more combinations with oils of all sorts along with fragrance/essential oils...

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#alltheingredients: LUMOROL K 5229 – let’s look at the ingredients!

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Yesterday, we met a new ingredient, LUMOROL K 5229 (INCI: MIPA-Laureth Sulfate, Laureth-4, Propylene Glycol) and learned what it does. Today, let’s talk about why it can create foamy, bubbly, lathery™ products with such a huge oil percentage! LUMOROL K 5229 contains between 25% and 50% MIPA-laureth sulfate, 25% to 50% laureth-4, up to 3%...

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#alltheingredients: Lumorol K 5229 (INCI: MIPA-Laureth Sulfate, Laureth-4, Propylene Glycol)

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Have you always wanted to making a foamy, bubbly, lathery™ shower oil that offers all kinds of moisturization with all kinds of suds and cleaning power? Lumorol K 5229 (INCI: MIPA-Laureth Sulfate, Laureth-4, Propylene Glycol) is the ingredient you want! This isn’t hype – although, GET HYPE! for this ingredient – but the real deal!...

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Making shampoo bars: A (kinda) visual tutorial full of hints, tips, and techniques! (Updated 2023)

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I’ve been sharing little stories about how I make shampoo bars over on my social media accounts – SwiftCraftyMonkey on Facebook, and SwiftCraftyMonkey on Instagram – that I’ll share here with you! I’ll update these as I post over there, so this’ll be an ongoing project for at least a few days. Post #1: Melting...

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Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part four): The formula and process! 

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Welcome back to this four part series in which we’re making a shampoo filled with a veritable botanical bounty of fantastic ingredients for normal to oily hair! In part one, Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants!, we looked at what it meant to...

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