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As I mentioned yesterday, decyl glucoside has two main drawbacks – a high pH (as high as 11.5) and difficulty thickening. Let’s take a look at those issues! pHThe pH for decyl glucoside is alkaline, and can go quite high. If you want to use this as your main surfactant, you’ll have to work to...
There’s an increased interest in using decyl glucoside as a surfactant because of its reputation for being gentle to mild and because it’s considered a green ingredient (or at least ECOcert), so how can we use it in our products? First, what is decyl glucoside? (Condensed from this post…) Decyl glucoside is a very mild non-ionic...
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...
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...
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...