Honey Oatmeal Body Wash Bars
- taralee
- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: May 13, 2022
Formula;
phase A
36.5% SCI powder
20% SLSA powder
phase B
phase C
1% fragrance oil (I used oatmeal milk and honey fragrance oil)
Directions;
combine both ingredients in phase A. Make sure to wear a respirator when working with powdered surfactants
If you want to add coloring, this is when I add in the mica powder
in a separate container combine ingredients in phase B
mix until colloidal oatmeal has mostly dissolved. It's okay if there are some chunks
add ingredients from phase C into phase B and mix.
pour phase B/C into phase A and mix until you get a sticky play-doh like texture. It may be hard to mix so make sure you are using a strong enough tool to mix it together.
let it sit for a couple hours to harden. You know it's ready when you can touch it and it doesn't stick to your gloves. There may be a very small bit of sticky residue left on your gloves though.
use a shampoo bar press to press your bars. I always wrap the shampoo bar press with parchment paper so the product doesn't stick to the press.
I took 70 grams of the body wash bar mixture and rolled it into a ball before placing it into the shampoo bar mold.
continue pressing each bar until you have them all shaped into bars.
If you don't have a shampoo bar press you can use any mold or shape them by hand.
after pressing or shaping your bars let them sit overnight to let fully harden before using
Note; they aren't unsafe to use right after pressing, you just want to let them fully harden for 24 hours.
Benefits/Purpose of each ingredient
SCI powder - powder surfactant that is gentle on skin and helps create a lovely lather
SLSA - powder surfactant that helps increase lather and foam
DLS - liquid surfactant used to help increase lather and helps keep the bars together.
sodium lactate liquid - humectant that hydrates skin and helps harden bars
honeyquat - cationic surfactant that conditions the skin (typically cationic and anionic surfactants can't be paired together, but this cationic ingredients is actually formulated to work with anionic surfactants
liquid germall plus - preservative
colloidal oatmeal - helps soothe stressed, blemished and irritated skin and can even help relieve dry and itchy skin.
macadamia nut oil - moisturizes skin
Substitutions;
substituting ingredients will change the final feel, viscosity, and overall effect of final product. percentages and formulating procedure may need to change with substitutions.
SCI - you can use any powder surfactant just make sure you adjust the ph
SLSA - you can replace it with SCI or another powder surfactant
DLS - can be replaced with another liquid surfactant
sodium lactate liquid - no sub. May work without it, but never tired.
honeyquat - polyquaternium-78
colloidal oatmeal - no sub can leave out
macadamia nut oil - any other oil
liquid germall plus - optiphen plus or another water soluble broad spectrum preservative
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