Surfactants

Creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome autumnal extracts (part two, choosing botanical extracts)

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Welcome back to our short series on creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome botanical extracts. In part one yesterday, we chose our surfactants and took a look at how we might increase mildness of the formula. Today, let’s take a look at some botanical extracts we could include in this foamy,...

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Creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome autumnal extracts (part one, overview and choosing surfactants)

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I’ve received so many new ingredients this year – so many new botanical extracts, proteins, surfactants, and so much much more – that I decided to set myself a challenge to create a foaming, bubbling, lathering hand cleanser filled with things that remind me of autumn, all the aromas and colours of the season sealed...

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#alltheingredients – Shea butter surfactant (INCI: Shea butteramidopropyl betaine), a foamy, bubbly, lathery™ amphoteric surfactant

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I wanted to share with you this new, exciting, foamy, bubbly, lathery™ surfactant I was sent by Simply Ingredients – shea butter surfactant (INCI: Shea butteramidopropyl betaine) for those of you looking for an amphoteric, secondary surfactant, or betaine not derived from coconut. Yep, this is a surfactant derived from shea butter that works very...

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Honeycomb’s Big! vanilla, honey & ginger gentle foaming hand cleanser (part three) – the formula

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Welcome back to this short series on making Honeycomb’s Big! vanilla, honey & ginger gentle foaming hand cleanser with Plantapon® SF and Lamesoft® PO 65 along with all kinds of hydrosols, botanical extracts, and humectants. You can find part one of this series by clicking here now! And find part two in which we chose...

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Honeycomb’s Big! vanilla, honey & ginger gentle foaming hand cleanser (part two) – choosing our preservatives

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Welcome back to this short series on making Honeycomb’s Big! vanilla, honey & ginger gentle foaming hand cleanser with Plantapon® SF and Lamesoft® PO 65 along with all kinds of hydrosols, botanical extracts, and humectants. You can find part one of this series by clicking here now! INSERT Let’s look at preservatives and such! In...

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