Discussion: What’s your favourite product to make? What’s your least?

This is a hard question for me as I really love making so many things so I have to think for a bit… Okay, I think my favourite thing to make is body wash. I love figuring out nice surfactant combinations, working with humectants to hydrate my skin after bathing, adding cationic polymers like polyquat...

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Ingredient: Jojoba beads

We’ve made two cleansing products with Siligel as the thickener – this rose & chamomile facial cleanser and this body wash with Miracare Soft 313 – so I thought we should take a look at one of the exfoliants I use the most in facial products, jojoba beads. Jojoba beads are not plastic micro beads....

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Experiments in the workshop: Making a rose water & chamomile facial cleanser with other surfactants and Siligel

We made a lovely facial cleanser the other day with Miracare Soft 313 and Siligel. Let’s take a look at using other surfactants in this formula. The key to using Siligel as your thickener for surfactants is to remember what you can’t use with it. You don’t want to go higher than 5% active anionic...

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Off today…

Hi everyone! I’m have to the day off as I have travelled into Vancouver this morning for medical attention for my muscle spasms – 2 and a half hour round trip – and given I can’t sit up without pain, I’m not doing great today. I don’t have the energy to write up an entire...

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Experiments in the workshop: Making a facial cleanser with Miracare Soft 313 and Siligel

Yesterday, we took a look at formulating a body wash with Miracare Soft 313 thickened with Siligel. Today, let’s look at making a facial cleanser with some of these same ingredients. When I formulate a facial cleanser, I think about using lower surfactant levels than I would for a body wash, bubble bath, or shampoo....

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