longeliner31
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Any good ones? Not ready to try the bath bombs yet!
Not true. There are lots of materials that can produce mountains of bubbles without sulfates. Some of them are sulfonates, true, but there are still lots of very effective foaming agents that aren't either.The stable mountain of bubbles in commercial baths come from sulfates. Fact is, you can't have those kind of bubbles without them.
Following.. Have yet to find a non sulfate way to make bubbles that last more than a few minutes.
Eta: for now we use a Castile liquid soap for bubbles. but I'd like to get away from it if possible.
If I had a choice, I'd pick disodium lauryl sulfosuccinate (SLSS) over sodium lauryl sulfoacetate (SLSA). They're both sulfonate esters, they're both of fairly low solubility, so hard to formulate in liquids, but non-hygroscopic so easy to formulate in solids. But SLSS is a little milder than SLSA.Try some Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate (SLSA) (derived from coconut and palm oil) to make bigger better bubbles perhaps??
If I had a choice, I'd pick disodium lauryl sulfosuccinate (SLSS) over sodium lauryl sulfoacetate (SLSA). They're both sulfonate esters, they're both of fairly low solubility, so hard to formulate in liquids, but non-hygroscopic so easy to formulate in solids. But SLSS is a little milder than SLSA.
These things are matters of taste. SLSA makes bigger bubbles than SLSS, which tends to make finer, creamier foam. But I wouldn't use either one without a foam stabilizer.Hi Robert, having played with both I find the bubbles from slsa better. Would you suggest using slss with another surfectant? What would you recommend? Thanks
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