Mild shower gel for daily use
Every shower gel, including this mild shower gel, consists for the most part of water. After water, the surfactants are the largest group of components. Soap is an example of a surfactant, it ensures that the water can reach the dirt better and that the dirt stays in the water and no longer ends up on skin or hair. We don’t use soap here, but other surfactants that work better, are less irritating and insensitive to ‘lime’ in the water.
Most store-bought shower gels contain table salt to “thicken”. It is an accidental property of some surfactants that they become ‘thicker’ together with sodium chloride (table salt). We use Hexaderm LSH to thicken the shower gel. Hexaderm LSH is much milder than table salt.
Ingredients
- 55 ml water (boiled and cooled drinking water)
- 10 ml Betaine (CAPB) Hx
- 30 ml Detergent (SLES) Hx
- 5 ml Hexaderm LSH
- 15 drops (0.75 ml) Lactic acid 90%
- 15 drops (0.75 ml) FO Green fig
- 2 drops HexaCol Green
- 15 drops of HexaCon 91
Think of a few pipettes for dosing and a bottle (for example the 100 ml HENRI bottle) and closure to mix and store the shower gel. A small measuring cup can be used to measure the surfactants.
Procedure
Measure the surfactants (Betaine (CAPB) Hx and Detergent (SLES) Hx) and the Hexaderm LSH and put them together in the bottle. Add the Lactic acid 90%, the FO Green fig, the HexaCol green and the HexaCon 91. Finally add the water. Put the cap on the bottle and shake everything well.
If the shower gel is not thick enough, you can add a few drops of lactic acid. But the shower gel becomes a bit thicker on its own in the first 24 hours. You can just mix everything at room temperature, heating is not necessary. The shower gel is immediately ready for use.
We recommend not to store homemade cosmetics for too long, at most 2-3 months.
Lactic acid is not only intended to thicken the Hexaderm LSH, but also to make the shower gel more skin-friendly. The skin is naturally a little acidic, which is not disturbed in this way.