How to formulate a surfactant shower bath
(Surfactant Base)
How to formulate a surfactant shower bath
You want to formulate a “surfactant base” shower bath with your own distinctive traits.
Below are key steps that could help you to save your time:
A. Identify appearance criteria:
Perfume: select a trendy perfume of your target consumers (age, gender, income, country….), and the perfume should be match with your product’s concept. Viet Dragon Chemical Corporation who represents Expression Parfumee – a French perfume house. Our Marketing team and senior experienced perfumers could provide you an optimum solution for your perfume.
Color: you can base the trend colour of other popular shower baths on the market combining with your product’s concept to decide the color which can be transparent/opaque with or without pearlizer with a specific color tone. From these ideas, you can define ingredients relating color, pearlizers and opacifiers.
Viscosity: the next step, you should decide the viscosity range for your product. You can check the viscosity of your target competitors on the market. However, you should pay attention to your packaging such á: pump bottles, push on flip cap bottles. Thickeners/rheology modifiers such as Carbomer, Acrylate Copolymer… from Viet Dragon Chemical Corporation can help you to meet your requirement about viscosity.
B. Specify your product’s performance:
pH Value: pH of a “surfactant base” shower bath should be in the range from 5.0 to 6.5
Foaming: together with perfume, foaming is a crucial point that affect the consumers’ valuation your product’s quality. You have to decide how much foam that your product should perform, how creamy the foam is and how long the foam lasts. Similarly, you can compare with a benchmark on the market, or you can set your own objective about the foam.
From this objective, you can determine the percentage of surfactants in your formulation.
Mild surfactants such as Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate…are usually used to boost a creamy and long-lasting foam and provide a soft skin feel.
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Special functions: this step is to define if there is any unique function that you would like to offer consumers in your shower baths (for example: whitening, moisturizing, ant-acne….) based on your product’s concept. You select ingredients which can both perform these functions and be soluble in water since shower baths are mostly water base. The solubility of ingredients helps your formula more stable. If not, you may need a solubilizer.
C. Prepare your formula sheet:
From above steps, you now can prepare your formula sheet and make a lab sample. And then you should appraise your product: pH, value, foaming and of course in-use performance. Please also pay attention to the formulation cost. You can adjust the percentage of ingredients in your formula to optimum the cost and performance.
Please not forget to add preservatives to your products.
D. Final step is running a storage test to check your product’s stability.
You surely don’t expect to see your product changes color, be dull or separated. Hence, you need to run a storage test with different temperature to check the stability of your formulation.
There is a notice on ingredient-declaring on label: all ingredients must be declared with the descending order of the percentage in the formulation.
Now you have your own a “surfactant base” shower bath formulation.
If you still not find a formulation that meet your objective, let Viet Dragon Chemical help you.
With our well-equipped lab and experienced engineer team, we can help you to have a distinguished formulation and provide you quality ingredients.
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