emulsified scrub

Blast from the past: Emulsified sugar scrubs (aka body polishes) with a base formula and so many links!

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May 18, 2023: With summer coming, I know we’re all thinking about exfoliating and scrubbing and doing all kinds of moisturizing, so here’s my long post on emulsified scrubs! You can make with all sorts of exfoliants – sugar, salt, pumice, jojoba beads, walnut shells, and anything else you like! It’s super simple – melt,...

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Q&A: Why can this company include water in their sugar scrubs? Why doesn’t it dissolve the sugar? (Updated June 2022)

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In this month’s Q&A, Sehrish asked, I want to know that as it is said in sugar body scrub we should not add water based ingredient. So how tree hut’s body scrub is made i am just curious that how it is made in the ingredients list there are sugar, glycerine, poly 20, aqua, oil based ingredients...

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Q&A: What can we do to make the floor less slippery after using an emulsified scrub?

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In this month’s Q&A, Eliza asked, I’ve just prescribed with your blog😊. I am working on emulsified body sugar scrubs. I have tried your recipe emulsified scrub with BTMS. I love the feeling of the skin after this scrub, it’s moisturised and supple. I love this emulsifier on a skin. But the shower floor is quite...

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Experiments in the workshop: Emulsified sugar scrub variations – modifying the emulsifier

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I realized I was burning through a lot of these terms over the last two weeks, so I wanted to stop and take a look at what all this stuff we’ve been talking about means in terms of our products and our experiences as I think the best way to learn is to read something,...

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Experiments in the workshop: Emulsified sugar scrub variations – modifying the fatty alcohol

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Last week, we took a look at making this luscious emulsified scrub with tucuma butter & babassu oil. Today, let’s look at a few ways we could modify it! Let’s take some of the concepts we discussed in today’s other post – Defining some cosmetic chemistry terms: Spreadability, play time, cushion, drag, and melt point –...

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