Surfactants

Weekend Wonderings: Adding surfactants to emulsified scrubs, solidification points of powdered surfactants, where to find SLS in Canada, and substituting surfactants

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ADDING SURFACTANTS TO EMULSIFIED SCRUBSIn this post, Experiments in the workshop: Black cocoa butter emulsified sugar scrub, Stephany writes: Could I incorporate a little bit of surfactant in this to make it foamy???And in this post on facial scrubs, Stephany offers a potential recipe. (Click to see it.) An interesting thought, but no, you can’t add...

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Facial cleansers: Creating a low surfactant facial cleanser

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I’ve had a few people comment that I use a high concentation of surfactants in my products, so I set out to create a foaming facial cleanser that had low levels of extremely mild surfactants I could use after my Viking workout when I’ve recently washed my face. I also thought it would be a...

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Experiments in the workshop: A 3-in-1 that might be great for swimmers

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I’ve always loved swimming and being in the water, and Raymond is finally enjoying it, too. We both want something to protect our hair from the chemicals we find in a pool, mainly chlorine, as I’ve noticed that my hair is a little trashed those weeks I go every day! There are three things that...

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Facial scrubs: More exfoliants…

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We took a look at using BC Glacial clay, jojoba beads, and dermabrasion crystals in our surfactant based cleanser in yesterday’s post, yesterday. Let’s take a look at a few other exfoliants we could add. AUSTRALIAN PINK CLAY (INCI Kaolin clay)I bought some of this from Voyageur Soap & Candle because it’s supposed to be good for...

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Facial scrubs: Using the surfactant base to make scrubs! Part 1

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It’s been a while, but my testers have responded, so here are the results!  I’m working with the base surfactant for oily skin we figured out in this post. If you don’t know what the ingredients are, you’ll find them in that post or in the ingredients list or the surfactants section of the blog. Part...

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