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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part five) – finalizing the formula without so many extracts!

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I really loved this shampoo I made in 2023 – Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair – so I thought I’d make it again with some other botanical extracts as well as this gorgeous hair active, Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract,...

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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part four) – adding too many solvents by accident! 

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A bottle with a silver pump sits on a white counter in a bathroom. The bottle contains a red- purple liquid, a body wash with too many extracts.

I really loved this shampoo I made in 2023 – Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair – so I thought I’d make it again with some other botanical extracts as well as this gorgeous hair active, Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract,...

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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part three) – adding more botanical extracts!

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A dark red liquid foaming facial cleanser in a foamer bottle with dragon's blood extract in a bottle on one side, bilberry extract on the other. They're all on top of a scale.

I really loved this shampoo I made in 2023 – Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair – so I thought I’d make it again with some other botanical extracts as well as this gorgeous hair active, Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract,...

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Foamy, bubbly, lathery™ fun: Making botanical extract filled shampoo, facial cleanser, or body wash (part one) – the formula! 

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A yellow liquid in a Pyrex jug with a large fork on it on a scale with three bottles of surfactant beside it. Taken in portrait mode.

Eeek! I am out of everything here at home! I make almost everything we use – except for toothpaste, anti-perspirant, and sunscreen – but I haven’t had a workshop day devoted to stocking up the essentials in a while, so I took some time before our Zoom workshop in February to make the base of...

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Q&A: Adding extracts and actives to an anhydrous whipped body butter? Part three – putting it all together in one big formula!

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Welcome back to this short series on adding extracts and actives to an anhydrous whipped body butter! We started the discussion with part one and enjoyed some formulas. Click here to see that — Q&A: Adding extracts and actives to an anhydrous whipped body butter? Part one – salicylic acid & Octyldodecanol with formulas! In...

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