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This recipe is based off this one, sort of, so read it first, if you wish! And I really encourage you to read this post first – facial cleansers for dry skin – because I really do go into most of the detail necessary for you to create a facial cleanser in this post! Then read...
We’ve created our basic body wash recipe and we’re happy with it…but we could tweak it further! (We can ALWAYS do more tweaking, but it takes real skill to know when to stop!) So what kinds of things we could do to this recipe to make it more moisturizing and what ingredients will increase the...
Yesterday we took a look at various ingredients we might like to include in a body wash, so let’s take that information and create a basic recipe for a body wash so we can play with all those wonderful ingredients that will moisturize and hydrate dry skin! BASIC BODY WASH FOR DRY SKINHEATED WATER PHASE10%...
For the purposes of this series on creating skin cleansers, I’m going to be using the same three surfactants – SCI or ACI, cocamidopropyl betaine, and polyglucose/lactylate blend in each product. You can choose any combination you want and just substitute one surfactant for the SCI and another surfactant for the polyglucose/lactylate blend. I really encourage...
If you’re planning to work with SCI (sodium cocoyl isethionate), remember that you need to melt it for quite some time before it is usable in your product. The best way to do this is to melt it with cocamidopropyl betaine, but you could use some anionic surfactants like the alkyl sulfosuccinates, alkyl ether sulfosuccinates, sodium...