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Weekday Wonderings: Reading the INCI names of surfactants?

June 5, 2017 by SwiftCraftyMonkey

In this post, Surfactants: A short guide to lathery, foamy, bubbly things, Renie asks: When I look up “BSB” and find this written on your blog “BSB (PEG-80 Sorbitan Laurate, Sodium Trideceth Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Disodium Lauroamphodiacetate, PEG-150 Distearate, Sodium Laureth-13 Carboxylate, Quaternium-15, found at Voyageur)”…..I take it to mean that all of the names…

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