> I am working on a new product for a private label client.
How do you get these gigs? I could sure use more.
> They sent me
> a sample of a soap product they have been using and would like
> something similar from us with a few tweaks. They were not provided an
> ingredient list so I don't have much to go on. The product is the
> consistency of thick room temperature butter. I assume this is a cream
> soap but it is much stiffer than any I've come across.
How would people use it? Scoop it from a jar? Is it even soft enough to
scoop? I'm imagining a stick of butter at room temperature...too soft to
pick up like bar soap, but maybe you could leave it in the soap dish and run
your hand over it, is what I'm thinking. But maybe that's because I'm not
very experienced with butter that's come to room temp. How was the sample
packaged? Did they say how the original was packaged?
> Any tips or
> pointers on making this type of product would be most appreciated. I
> am not dead set on making a cold processed cream soap. In fact I'd
> like to do this with mild surfactants if it's possible.
You could produce a stiff gel with any of various surfactant formulas, but
the user might have trouble taking a measured amount to use. How does the
viscosity you're after compare to cream shampoos that came in jars or tubes
the way Head & Shoulders used to? How does it compare with the soft but not
pourable gel that was concentrate shampoo in tubes?
Robert
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