Just wondering what the advantage of using a polysorbate when you can buy water soluble olive oil, which would serve the same purpose for rinsability? (I know that's not a word, but you know what I mean!)
I really don't know because I've never used "
water soluble olive oil"... where do you get it? Is it expensive?
I will be doing some experiments with some
water-soluble oils tomorrow if my
LotionCrafter order gets here on time. I decided to order some
Olivem-300 and some
Cromollient SCE from them after running into several discussions and recipes online as I was doing some further reading/research about
emulsified oil cleansers, including
a thread from last summer here on SMF (which immediately prompted me to also add some
olive squalane to my LotionCrafter cart).
Thanks for that SMF link, Irish! If I only I had the ability to Edit my first post,
it would be good to add it there!
FYI: Jen's formula (Lotion Crafter) appeared on the Southern Soapers Group years ago about the same time as I formulated mine. Both were based on DHC's Cleansing Oil, but they are different.
I believe in giving credit where credit is due. So, if it isn't too much trouble, please start a new thread (
emulsified oil cleansers?) for your experiments with Jen's formula. And definitely, link to Jen's formula on her site. I'm sure she would appreciate that.
Also, I would link back to this one and to the other SMF one in order to keep them all together. Please & TIA!
UPDATE: Link to Previous Discussion on SMF (Thanks, Irish):
https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/olive-cleansing-oil-face-wash.63933/
Navigator9’s first post quoted below pretty much describes how I got started on formulating a dupe for DHC’s Deep Cleansing Oil.
... Years ago, I started getting catalogs from DHC, a Japanese skin care site. They always include samples with their catalog, and one of these was their Deep Cleansing Oil. ...
When I first made this gentle facial cleanser years ago, DHC’s list of ingredients was way shorter than it is today. It’s a good thing I discovered it then because the ingredients have changed over the years, and, JMHO, NOT for the better.
DHC Deep Cleansing Oil,
6.7 fl. oz. @ $28 !!!
Ingredients: Olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, caprylic/capric triglyceride, sorbeth-30 tetraoleate, pentylene glycol, phenoxyethanol, tocopherol, stearyl glycyrrhetinate, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf oil.
Navigator9 used Jen’s recipe at Lotion Crafter to create her Olive Cleansing Oil Face Wash. FYI: There are good B&B recipes on that site! It’s a great company to do business with -- highly recommended without reservation! Here’s a link to Lotion Crafter's formulary:
https://www.lotioncrafter.com/lotioncrafter-premium-ingredients-formulary.html