Surfactants

Clean up your act! Honey, apple & kale foaming kitchen hand cleanser with d-Limonene

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Merry Christmas! If you’re like me, you’re spending part of today loafing about playing with your new toys, and the other part trying to get dinner made! If you’re preparing, baking, cooking, broiling, or grilling any meals, this is my gift to you! One of my favourite cleansers for around the kitchen is always one...

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Q&A: Substitutions for SMO/SMC taurate in a cleanser?

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In the November Q&A, Audrey asked: I have seen SMO/SMC taurate recommended because it is very mild and conditioning. I am not able to get my hands on this product. Can anyone recommend a surfactant that would have the same properties without having to adjust the pH of my cleanser? Would Sodium cocoyl glutamate be a good...

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Shampoo bars: Please don’t use 100x or 200x aloe vera powder in them!

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A woman wrote to me the other day to say her shampoo bars were soft and sticky. I asked her to tell me her exact formula, and it was identical to one of mine with one huge exception – she added 1% concentrated aloe vera powder, either 100x or 200x. Since then, I’ve read of...

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Surfactants: Cleansing descriptions and increasing mildness – analyzing surfactants

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Thanks for sticking around to the end of this series. I know for some this might seem like a very dry subject and some of you are yelling at the screen for me to shut up about chemistry stuff and get to the formulas, but if you have a curious mind and want to learn...

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Surfactants: Cleansing descriptions and increasing mildness – almost there! 

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Yeah, I know, you ask me the time, I teach you how to build a clock. But isn’t this all so much more fun than a sentence or two on the topic? In our post last Wednesday, we took a look at a few ways we might define what it means for a surfactant to...

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