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I introduced you to Ritathix DOE yesterday, a new liquid thickener we can add to surfactant based products like body wash, shampoo, or other lathery and foamy things, so I thought I’d show you a little video I made about it today. I thought I’d thicken up the body wash I formulated for really oily...
As I mentioned in this Weekend Wonderings post, I bought Ritathix DOE, a thickener for surfactant based products and I thought I’d give it a try. Let’s take a look at this thickener in this post, then look at how I use it to thicken things in tomorrow’s post. Then we’ll compare it to Crothix...
If you joined us yesterday, you saw me pondering ingredients I might like to use to create a body wash for really oily skin. Today, let’s create a recipe using those ingredients I liked. BODY WASH FOR REALLY OILY SKIN WITH NIACINAMIDE AND SEBUM CONTROL ENZYME12% cocamidopropyl betaine18% DLS mild10% C14-16 olefin sulfonate10% aloe vera...
I love Saturday mornings. I see comments come in all week, but this is the morning I get to write about what I was thinking. It’s great fun, and I love to see how you respond. I’m sick. I have the September back-to-school cold and I’m grumpy and annoyed about it. I spent yesterday in...
Well, it looks like autumn is just about here, and in my part of the world, we’ll finally get some relief with rain! Woo hoo! I’m not saying I like my hair all frizzed up and water swollen – I’ll be living with a bottle of my anti-frizz spray in hand- but it’s so much...