Formulating for dry skin: Creating a basic recipe for a body wash

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%...

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Formulating for dry skin: Creating a body wash from scratch

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...

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An aside…Working with SCI noodles, prills, or other solid forms

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...

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Formulating for dry skin: Creating skin cleansers – an overview of ingredients

I know you’re probably itching for me to get to facial moisturizers, but I thought I would give the dry skinned amongst us time to do some playing with the ingredients in the lotions I’ve been writing about for the last few days to see what you like before we get into make more expensive...

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Question about humectants: Why not Hydrovance?

In this post, Dawn asks: Susan, I noticed you are using glycerin and not hydrovance in the dry skin formulations. Is glycerin a better product for extremely dry skin? I love hydrovance but if there is an advantage to using glycerin with the dry skin issue, I’d like to formulate the most effective lotion. I...

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