Facial scrubs: Working on our surfactant base recipe – part 4 (thickening!)

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one and part two and part three. One of the other things to consider for this facial scrub is thickening as it is going to be quite watery with 40% surfactants! We took a look at using glycol distearate...

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Facial scrubs: Working on our surfactant base – part 3

If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one and part two.  As I mentioned in this post, no one wants to have that horrible tight and dry feeling after we’ve washed our skin, and we need to make sure we’re keeping that...

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Facial scrubs: Working on our surfactant base recipe – part 2

We created a really basic recipe yesterday for a surfactant based facial scrub, and I think we need to take a bit of time to modify it so we can include mildness enhancers, thickeners, and lovely extracts our skin will like. This post will be about including humectants, then we’ll take a look at including...

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Facial scrubs: Working on our surfactant base recipe – part 1

We covered step one – choosing our surfactants – in this post. We took a look at how to make our product rinse off more cleanly in this post. I touched a little bit on pH in surfactant based products in this post. So it feels like time to create the basics of our base...

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Facial scrubs: Creating a surfactant based scrub – rinsing off cleanly

Yep, that tight feeling you get after washing isn’t about removing oils from your skin – although that can be an issue with repeated washings – but about the surfactant rinsing off cleanly! What has been shown to be an essential component of skin tightness is the film left on your skin after rinsing off the...

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