Surfactants

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one and part two and part three. One of the other things to consider for this facial scrub is thickening as it is going to be quite watery with 40% surfactants! We took a look at using glycol distearate...

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one and part two.  As I mentioned in this post, no one wants to have that horrible tight and dry feeling after we’ve washed our skin, and we need to make sure we’re keeping that...

We created a really basic recipe yesterday for a surfactant based facial scrub, and I think we need to take a bit of time to modify it so we can include mildness enhancers, thickeners, and lovely extracts our skin will like. This post will be about including humectants, then we’ll take a look at including...

We covered step one – choosing our surfactants – in this post. We took a look at how to make our product rinse off more cleanly in this post. I touched a little bit on pH in surfactant based products in this post. So it feels like time to create the basics of our base...

Why choose a surfactant based scrub over an oil based or emulsified one? A few reasons! Some of us can’t tolerate loads of oils, and a surfactant based scrub is less likely to be comedogenic or acnegenic. Secondly, you clean while you exfoliate, so it does two jobs in one! (Some would argue that the...