Trying to create mild soap bar - HELP!!
Hi Beauty Brains!
I am so happy that I
found this wonderful and informative podcast. Love,Love the podcast.
I have four questions to
ask.
1.I am trying to make a
mild soap bar with melt and pour soap.( Ingredients: Certified Organic
coconut oil, Certified Organic palm oil, safflower oil, glycerin (kosher, of
vegetable origin), purified water, sodium hydroxide (saponifying agent),
sorbitol (moisturizer), sorbitan oleate (emulsifier), soy bean protein
(conditioner), titanium dioxide (natural mineral whitener)) . I wanted to
know which ingredient gives the property of melting and solidifying at certain temperature.
2. I want to add some
botanicals like herbs, oil soluble colorants, and increase the foam at the same
time. Can I add Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate (noodles) to the above melt and
pour soap as it is without melting?
3. Since the final
product's Ph is above 7, can I add citric acid to adjust the Ph?.
4. This question is out
of curiosity 
How does LUSH add fresh fruit and vegetables to the soap
without going bad? (example :Water (Aqua) , Rapeseed Oil; Coconut Oil
(Brassica napus; Cocos nucifera) , Glycerine , Fresh Mango
(Mangifera indica) , Dried Mango (Mangifera indica) ,Fragrance , Sicilian
Lemon Oil (Citrus limonum) ,Sicilian Mandarin Oil (Citrus
Nobilis) , Tunisian Neroli Oil (Citrus Aurantium amara
oil) , Sodium chloride ,EDTA , Tetrasodium
Etidronate , SodiumHydroxide ,*Linalool , *Limonene , Lilial , Red
4).
AND also I feel
they add the surfactant flakes to the shampoo bar and soap bar without melting them.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Shamapoo bar: http://www.lushusa.com/Brazilliant/05562,en_US,pd.html#start=1
Soap Bar : http://www.lushusa.com/Bohemian/00075,en_US,pd.html#start=12
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I actually have some questions about your ingredients if you don't mind, NOTHING Bad, probing curiosity? If that's okay, it sound really cool, and I just want to know more!
My questions are mostly why you choose your some of your ingredients instead of other choices, I think what you have is interesting, and again, just wanted to know more.
Also, I wanted to know about what kinds of botanical ingredients, herbs, oil soluble colorants you intended to use, and if you wanted to use them whole, or extracts or oils, and what stage during your next soap making process would you add them?
Chemist's Corner is probably your best bet. I doubt they have much information of chemicals that (actually) safe for eczema. -_- Idk, I could be poorly mistaken. My best friend has that too. Also, Chemist's Corner people can and may have a holier than thou attitude to people they feel are 'green-washed', or brain-washed hippies that shop at LUSH, so I wouldn't mention that... Just a heads up. Good luck.
Well, I like the way LUSH advertises by adding mangoes and
cucumbers into their products while simultaneously using obvious irritants like
sodium laureth sulphate, Lab colors and Fragrances. A layman thinks that he is
shampooing his hair with rose petals and bananas, but in reality the brand is
as good or bad as other conventional brands.
Regarding the selection of ingredients, it was simply trial and
. I used to buy a surfactant (say
error and ewg.com
cocoglucose from makingcosmetics.com) ,make shampoo and see if I have any
reaction. I also used elimination method-simply avoid the most irritating
surfactants (I actually learnt more by listening to this podcast: How to pick a mild shampoo
Episode 47 by PERRY
ROMANOWSKI on SEPTEMBER 9, 2014).
One more influencing factor is- I wanted to use fully
biodegradable surfactants, as my small contribution to the environment. Since
we all know that the pharmaceuticals, cosmetics all wash down to our water
resources.
Hope I made some valid points J
Botanical ingredients, herbs, oil soluble colorants are for the look and feel.
Adding essential oils might have therapeutic benefits. Some natural ingredients
(like oats) can be used as
exfoliants. An example of my chocolate vanilla soap: I melted the soap base and
separated into two parts. One half I added cocoa powder and other half I
added goat milk, vanilla extract and vanilla essential oil. I poured both into
the soap molds and allowed it to solidify. It finally looked like marble cake!
It was a nice soap but did not lather like the commercial ones....
Will post the same topic in chemistscorner.Thank you. J
Components like
Limonene, Linalool,Citronellol have some
antibacterial and anti-fungal properties.May be they are also helping to preserve the product.
I have trouble signing into chemistscorner.I
registered into the website but I am not able to sign in.. L
Limonene, Linalool,Citronellol have some
antibacterial and anti-fungal properties.May be they are also helping to preserve the product.
I only know of vanilla absolute and tincture....So I looked it up, and I found this for you. It sounds like you may have been mislead.
http://www.lgbotanicals.com/Vanilla-Pure-Essential-Oil--No-Such-Thing_b_27.html#.VXZxPkY1TIU
Oh! I did not give much attention to the
terminology. Thanks for the info. BTW I bought my vanilla absolute from http://www.edenbotanicals.com/products/essential-oils-pure-therapeutic-grade/essential-oils-v-z/vanilla-absolute.html
Oh, btw, I really like that you care about the ocean, I have a particular fondness for marine life and I personally hate thinking about things everything that goes down the drain. I'm surprised everything under water is so resilient as it is. This might sound like a dumb question and it probably is, but is most your products water soluble based for that reason? Would it in theory, break apart by water better?