thanks carebear for posting your recipe, very generous. and to all of you who had great ideas for one on the cp forum.
so i finally mixed up my first batch of emulsifying facial scrub, and it's a semi-disaster. i used carebear's recipe (well, sort of, i can't help but tinker, and invariably screw up a first attempt).
i used shea butter cuz it was handy, dr. bronner's liquid soap, tinosan for preservative, brown rice ground in a coffee grinder, and a little tea tree and lavender eos. i threw in some yellow clay and upped the e-wax a bit.
it wasn't scrubby enough to my taste, and felt a little waxy, so i added more base ingredients, cocoa butter, jojoba oil, rosewater, ground oatmeal, ground almond seeds, and rose clay. then i added a lot of sugar.
well, it separated and is a gooey orange-ish mess with oil pockets floating on top. but i'm going to try to save it if it kills me!
but before i end up with an even bigger batch of mess, would you experts suggest adding more stearic and ewax to emulsify it? then beat the heck out of it?
this is only for me, family and friends -- i'm at least a year from trying to sell anything like this
