One ingredient, five products: Stearic acid – shampoo bar

I love shampoo bars. I think they may be my favourite product I make. Don’t get me wrong! I love my lotions and potions and body washes and everything else, but the thing that changed the way I see my hair and making things was this shampoo bar. I didn’t create this bar from scratch....

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One ingredient, five products: Stearic acid – foot scrub bars

With summer sandal season looming on the horizon in the northern hemisphere, a lot of attention is paid to our feet. Check out this recipe for a foot scrub bar containing stearic acid. (Which can be paired nicely with the thicker foot cream with stearic acid we made last week…) A lot of the ingredients...

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Weekend Wondering: What does it mean if a product advertises itself as “oil free”?

In this post, on coco-caprylate caprate, John asks: I see coco-caprylate appearing in a lot of “oil-free” moisturizers. What constitutes an “oil-free” moisturizer? It seems to me a lot of them use oil-derived ingredients anyway.  This is a great question, and the answer really is “I don’t know.” I don’t buy cosmetic products from stores,...

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One ingredient, five products: Stearic acid – body scrub bars

Stearic acid is a great bar hardener, and I like to use as both a bar hardener and emollient in my body and foot scrub bars. Let’s take a look at the body scrub bar today and the foot scrub bar on Monday. What do I want in a body scrub bar? I want something that...

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One ingredient, five products: Stearic acid – a thicker foot cream

Stearic acid is a natural inclusion in a cream. In fact, you can thicken any basic lotion into a cream by adding some stearic acid. We took a look at a hand lotion yesterday. Let’s take a look at a cream today. Actually, let’s back up a second. What’s the difference between a cream and...

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