Surfactants

Member exclusive: Lightly fragrant champa micellar water (ECOcert)

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When it comes to making an ECOcert micellar water, I turn to caprylyl/capryl glucoside, a non-ionic surfactant that helps us solubilize small amounts of water that works as the cleanser on our skin in the same way the PEG-6 caprylic/capric triglycerides and polysorbate 80 worked. I have to admit something to you – I don’t...

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Solubilizers: Caprylyl/capryl glucoside

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I wrote a bit about this solubilizer caprylyl/capryl glucoside in this post on glucoside surfactants, but let’s learn more about it now! Caprylyl/capryl glucoside (aka octyl/decyl glucoside or C8-10 alkyl polyglucoside) is an Ecocert non-ionic solubilizer with a pH of 5.5 to 6 that can be used as a solubilizer and a very gentle surfactant. It...

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Member exclusive formula: Refreshing peppermint micellar water

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On March 14th, we took a look a what we might need to make micellar waters. Yesterday, we made a rose water micellar water with PEG-6 caprylic/capric triglycerides. Let’s look at a few different versions we could make today… A popular inclusion as the surfactant is polysorbate 20 or polysorbate 80. I find they can...

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Member exclusive: Let’s make a micellar water!

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The other day, we took a look at micellar waters, so let’s see how we can make our own. Quick summary: Micellar waters are water based products that contain a lot of water and a few other ingredients at quite low percentages intended to be used as light, no rinse facial cleanser that removes make-up...

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Viscosity!

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In these posts on surfactants I’ve been writing recently, I’ve mentioned viscosity quite a lot, so I thought we should take a look at this concept. The easy way to think about viscosity is about the thickness of a fluid. Water has low viscosity while something like glycerin has a higher viscosity. I liked this...

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