decyl polyglucose/decyl glucoside

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

 

I get so excited about all the various ingredients we all talk about.

They sound so wonderful! Then I buy some and after it has been

sitting here at my house for a few weeks or months, I realize I don't

have the faintest idea what to do with it!

 

I thought I heard something about this bubble bath ingredient, like

40% of the mix so yesterday I threw together a bubble bath, thinking

the bottle would make about 4-5 baths.

 

I put in about 3 Tablespoons of decyl polyglucose (about 2 ounces, I

think) and then mixed about a half teaspoon of vanilla concentrate

into about 1 Tablespoon of vegetable glycerin, in a separate

container. Then I mixed pachouli and lavender EO into the glycerin

with the vanilla. I filled the bottle with approx 60% rose hydrosol

and added the glycerin/EO mix.

 

Shook it up. It was brown bubble bath, but I'm okay with that.

 

Since I have removed the cover on my bathtub overflow and placed one

of those black rubber gaskets from the hardware store, with the thick

side down, then replaced the overflow cover, I can really fill the tub

up deep. So I did that and also I have filtered water from a shower

filter I put on the tub spout. Ahhhhh, no chlorine.

 

The bath was sensational and I used no lotion afterwards and my skin

isn't dry, in fact it's soft. I think it was pretty good. But I had

to use the entire bottle to make bubbles and that is my question. So

I ended up with more EO than I would usually use in one bath.

 

Would anyone with more experience care to comment on how I could

improve my method? I don't know how I would package this for anyone

else since I used a whole bottle (8 ozs.) not just a few squirts as

intended. I wanted a concentrated product.

 

Thanks for any help on this, I can't wait to hear your suggestions.

 

Laurel

in Santa Monica

[Guest guest]

Hi Laurel,

 

I understand about loving to try all the new things, and then not being

sure what to do with them *lol*

 

I think your problem was over diluting. Since its an item that is to be

diluted in a vast amount of water (a bathtub, especially a garden tub),

I choose to leave it undiluted for the most part. I add all the things I

want to it, but don't put any more water than I need to. I also have

very hard water here and wish I had a water softener system. It

definitely affects things like bubble baths (and my skin, and insides of

toilets and sinks, etc ..) , but I can assure you that with the decyl I

get a full tub of bubbles for the kids, despite the hard water.

 

You also remind me how badly I want to get a shower and tub filter! What

brand do you have?

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

 

Sea Buckthorn Seed Oil

Last Days Of The Pre-Buy

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On Behalf Of laureldeleo

 

 

Hi everyone,

 

I get so excited about all the various ingredients we all talk about.

They sound so wonderful! Then I buy some and after it has been

sitting here at my house for a few weeks or months, I realize I don't

have the faintest idea what to do with it!

 

I thought I heard something about this bubble bath ingredient, like

40% of the mix so yesterday I threw together a bubble bath, thinking

the bottle would make about 4-5 baths.

 

I put in about 3 Tablespoons of decyl polyglucose (about 2 ounces, I

think) and then mixed about a half teaspoon of vanilla concentrate

into about 1 Tablespoon of vegetable glycerin, in a separate

container. Then I mixed pachouli and lavender EO into the glycerin

with the vanilla. I filled the bottle with approx 60% rose hydrosol

and added the glycerin/EO mix.

 

Shook it up. It was brown bubble bath, but I'm okay with that.

 

Since I have removed the cover on my bathtub overflow and placed one

of those black rubber gaskets from the hardware store, with the thick

side down, then replaced the overflow cover, I can really fill the tub

up deep. So I did that and also I have filtered water from a shower

filter I put on the tub spout. Ahhhhh, no chlorine.

 

The bath was sensational and I used no lotion afterwards and my skin

isn't dry, in fact it's soft. I think it was pretty good. But I had

to use the entire bottle to make bubbles and that is my question. So

I ended up with more EO than I would usually use in one bath.

 

Would anyone with more experience care to comment on how I could

improve my method? I don't know how I would package this for anyone

else since I used a whole bottle (8 ozs.) not just a few squirts as

intended. I wanted a concentrated product.

 

Thanks for any help on this, I can't wait to hear your suggestions.

 

Laurel

in Santa Monica

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

don't forget to pour under warm running water and then agitate the water,

preferably at the beggining of the bath. i get gobs of bubbles that way

from just one capful of the stuff.

 

HTH & happy bubble bathing!

 

~Bonnie

[Guest guest]

Oh Lord, If only I could too~! Our water goes from 0 -300 We had it tested it's

297~ hard almost as a rock. If you face forward in our shower I swear we look

like Kraemer on Seinfield, where the shower head blows him over. If you're a

woman you can't stand facing our shower~LOL~

Sindy

I know that's water pressure and hard water combined~!

-

 

 

You also remind me how badly I want to get a shower and tub filter! What

brand do you have?