Bathbomb Ingredients

[Dwilson9]

What ingredients do you use?

What TYPE of ingredients do you need?
- Emulisers? (I think that’s how you spell it)
- Surfacants
- Carrier oils
- Essential oils
- Colourants
- Solubilisers
- Bicarb/Citric
- Fragrance
What other ‘TYPES’?

Should I use Unrefined or Refined ingredients?
- Cocoa butter
- Shea butter

Reasons for using/deciding not to use/and alternatives:
- Propylene Glycol USP
- Cornstarch
- Arrowroot powder
- Witch hazel
- Cream of tar
- Kaolin clay
- sodium Laureth sulfate
- sodium lauryl sulfoacetate
- milk powder
- cocamidopropyl betaine
- sodium lauryl sulfate
- coco glucoside
- decal glucoside
- glycol
- glycerin
- titanium dioxide
- synthetic fluroglogopite
- diprophylene glycol
- propylene glycol
- lauryl betaine
- benzoyl alcohol
- sodium coco sulfate
- disodium lauryl sulfosuccinate
- tin oxide
- calcium sodium borosilicate

 

[AliOop]

Either one will work, but one or the other might be better depending on your circumstances. Unrefined cocoa butter and shea butter both have distinctive scents. Some people really hate the smell of shea, while others love it. Some folks like the chocolatey smell of cocoa butter, but it doesn't mix well with all the fragrances they may want to use.

Bottom line, if you like the smell of the unrefined butters, and they will work with your selected FOs, then use those. If you don't like the smell, or you want more flexibility to chose a variety of scents, then buy the refined. Or, use whichever is more affordable for you.