Surfactants

Facial scrubs: Creating a surfactant based scrub – introduction and choosing our surfactants

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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...

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Why you don’t want to mix too much when using foamy & lathery surfactants!

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When you’re making things like bubble bath, body wash, or shampoo, I encourage you to mix the product gently to avoid bubbles. Why? Because THIS happens! Two weeks later, and it still isn’t clear! And I didn’t think I mixed it THAT much! When we mix too much, we get bubbles. Not a bad thing...

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Question: Is it cheaper to make your own products? Part two

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We asked the question the other day, is it cheaper to make your own products? and I think we’re all feeling like it is. (Although the shipping is crazy…more on that tomorrow!) It might not be cheaper to make our own conditioner compared to buying Suave at the drug store, but it’s certainly cheaper than...

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Question: Is it cheaper to make your own products? Part one!

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Last year, Patrick and Will posed this question – what is the cheapest lotion you could make? We took a look at various ingredients we would use in a lotion and tried to figure out how to reduce costs. This morning, I found this comment from Catherine (click and scroll down to read the entire...

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A few links about SLS

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To follow up from this post – why do you think sulfates are bad for your hair? – I thought I’d offer a few links from one of my favourite blogs, The Natural Haven! (Thanks, Bajan Lilly for reminding me to look there for stuff on SLS!) She’s writing a great series on sulfates, and...

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