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As we saw yesterday, we can make lovely emulsified scrubs for our faces if we tweak the ingredients slightly. So let’s take a look at a few more versions we could make! As a quick aside, doesn’t that look delicious? I’ve told the story before, but my husband looked at and smelled a batch I...
If you’ve been around the blog longer than five minutes, you’ll surely know one of the products I could not live without is the emulsified sugar scrub. I love the fact that it exfoliates and moisturizes my skin with the added bonus of washing off more cleanly than an oil based scrub. It isn’t much...
Oil soluble extracts of things we’d normally use as water soluble ingredients can add a little oomph to our oil based facial scrubs. A lot of these you’ll find are extracts in fractionated coconut oil (capric/caprylic triglycerides) or a fairly neutral oil, like sweet almond oil. Let’s take a look at a few of them...
As this post is all about the scrubbies, please refer to the physical exfoliants (part 1) and physical exfoliants (part 2) posts rather than having me recap them there. You’ve created your most excellent oil base for your facial scrub (dry and normal skin or oily skin), and now you want to add some scrubbies...
In all honesty, those of us with oily or acne prone skin should probably stay away from oil based scrubs and stick to using water based or surfactant based scrubs. If you really want to use one, consult a good list of comedogenic ingredients, formulate something really simple (one or two oils maximum), and keep a...