Surfactants

Creating a pumpkin seed & orange oil degreasing foaming bath butter scrub

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In yesterday’s post, we used foaming bath butter (aka foaming bath whip) to create some lovely exfoliating scrubs with jojoba beads. Today, let’s look at how we can use foaming bath butter, jojoba beads, and pumice to create a garden or kitchen scrub. As a note, I’m still in bed in pain, so I apologize...

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Foaming bath butter scrubs with jojoba beads

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I really enjoy creating face and body scrubs with this foaming bath butter, so I thought we could incorporate some jojoba beads to create an exfoliating body scrub. Let’s alter this formula – foaming bath butter with walnut shells – to incorporate jojoba beads instead. If you’d like to learn more about foaming bath butter, click...

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Experiments from the workshop: Suspending jojoba beads in foamy facial cleansers

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The other day, we met these colourful exfoliants. Today, let’s take a look at a few ways of incorporating them to create a foamy, bubbly, exfoliating cleanser. It’s not easy to suspend exfoliants as they naturally want to fall to the bottom or float at the top of a product. To create a product in...

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Member exclusive Q&A: What’s that goop in my surfactant bottle?

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In the March Q&A, Doris asked: I finished up a litre bottle of Bioterge today and was surprised to find quite a large amount (maybe 10-15% of the total) of a solid/gel/something like that at the bottom of the bottle. I went to get the new bottle I received just a week ago and discovered...

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Experiments in the workshop: Making a rose water & chamomile facial cleanser with other surfactants and Siligel

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We made a lovely facial cleanser the other day with Miracare Soft 313 and Siligel. Let’s take a look at using other surfactants in this formula. The key to using Siligel as your thickener for surfactants is to remember what you can’t use with it. You don’t want to go higher than 5% active anionic...

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