Olay Purifying Mud Facial Cleanser

[AmyW]

I use this stuff on my face and like it. But I'd like it better if I could make something similar. Can anyone help me pick apart the ingredients, help me figure out what is needed and what isn't?

http://www.olay.com/skin-care-products/ ... ntsSection

WATER, GLYCERIN, MYRISTIC ACID, STEARIC ACID, PALMITIC ACID, SODIUM LAUROYL SARCOSINATE, POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE, LAURIC ACID, POLYQUATERNIUM-10, FRAGRANCE, DMDM HYDANTOIN, TETRASODIUM ETIDRONATE, IODOPROPYNYL BUTYLCARBAMATE, KAOLIN, IRON OXIDES, PROPYLPARABEN, METHYLPARABEN, AMMONIUM POLYACRYLATE, PENTASODIUM PENTETATE.

 

[soapbuddy]

You could use cream soap and add mud to it.

 

[AmyW]

Can you tell me what "mud" is? Well obviously I know what mud is, but body mud lol

 

[soapbuddy]

Can you tell me what "mud" is? Well obviously I know what mud is, but body mud lol

It's most likely dea sea mud, but I don't see it in the original ingredients?

 

[ToniD]

Looks like red or pink clay in the ingrediants Kaolin is clay and the iron oxides would be pink or red.

I don't know enough to help pick apart ingredients, but you can cruise around the formula sites of the herbarie, swiftcraftymonkey to look for facial cleaners.

 

[AmyW]

I'm picking apart the ingredients using google.

It sounds like it's mostly palm oil, maybe some animal fat and/or coconut oil, glycerin, plus the kaolin and iron oxide. The rest preservatives and fungicides and fragrance. A couple of chemicals for skin softening.

So, if I made a cream soap that has natural glycerin still in tact, should I add more, would it be beneficial for a facial cleanser?

 

[Healinya]

Water and glycerin are performance ingredients that help spread it on your face. The acids are fatty acids that are used as thickeners, Sodium lauroyl sarcosinate is a mild cleansing agent, nice in shampoos but can be drying. Potasium hydroxide is an alkaline salt, used by soapers for liquid soap - basically turns oils on your skin to soap . Tetrasodiom edta is a synthetic amino acid used as a binding/chelating agent. Polyquaternium and dmdm hydantoin are preservatives. They work by releasing fractionally small amounts of formaldehyde, which kills pathogens, can be irritating to some. Kaolin is a fine, natural clay known for its drawing properties, used in masks/muds. Iron oxides are used for color. Parabens are preservatives, Iodopropynl butylcarbamate is also a preservative. I don't know exactly what ammonium polyacrylate and pentasodium pentetate are...

There's really no way to recreate it.. I would try making a very thin lotion and adding clay to it. I'm not sure how many foaming agents are out there for the b&b maker (all I really know is sls and slas)

 

[carebear]

I just made cream soap with glycerine and kaolin clay. It's my shaving soap. I think that by perhaps using a mild detergent with it I could have something milder that lathers better. Yes, the more I think about it, the more I think you COULD make something similar. It's really soap, mild detergent, and humectant and preservatives.


(oh, and I'm sorry to contradict, but regarding the ingredient list: the function of the potassium hydroxide is not to saponify facial oils, and the fatty acids are not thickeners. If KOH saponifies the skin on your face you'd have horrible burns. Instead, it combines with the fatty acids listed to make.... wait for it... SOAP. my cream soap, for example, is primarily stearic acid and potassium hydroxide)

 

[Healinya]

I get what you mean. I didn't word that well. Am I correct in saying that it emulsifies with oil on the skin, however not in this application? There are some products out there that do do that - but nothing the commercial chains have as far as I know, and koh most likely isn't the ingredient that does it..

 

[carebear]

well, the resulting soap forms an emulsion (albeit an unstable one) with the oils of your skin and allows them to more easily be washed away... (as does the detergent)

KOH isn't an emulsifier at all, on its own. it chemically reacts with the fatty acids of which oils are made - and thus creates one. Although emulsifier kinda assumes the presence of oil and water - so kinda, sorta. But no, KOH isn't an emulsifier.