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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...
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...
If you’re the type who likes a less greasy feeling lotion, there are a few ways you can reduce that feeling in your lotion. Most of these options can be found in the heated oil phase as we switch one oil for another, one butter for another, and add a few esters and fatty alcohols....
Yesterday we took a look at at adapting the basic lotion recipe for dry skin by including lots of humectants, oils suitable for dry skin, and occlusive ingredients. But that was only one way of creating this lotion – there are quite literally hundreds of variations you could make just switching out one ingredient for...