Quarantine formulation: Prebiotic handwashing foam

Since all experts still emphasize that for non-medical folks handwashing with soap (or a cleansing product containing some lipophilic components) is effective and sufficient during the COVID-19 crisis (in plain English you don't need to rape your skin microbiome by using disinfectants several times a day when you do not work in a hospital or a highly traficced area), I have chosen this mild prebiotic foam formulation for our quarantine formulating series.

It is easy to make, is really mild but yet effective and the prebiotics helps restore the skin microbiome which is certainly suffering under the whole disinfection and excessive handwashing (which is absolutely necessary at this time)

The idea is to make a few bottles of this foam and donate it to people who are still working hard under these conditions to guarantee that we receive our post, have something to eat, stay safe under the circumstances and that the whole society does not collapse. This includes all of those heroic health care personal, the police, the post and other couriers, supermarket and food chain staff, firemen and women, bus drivers, camion drivers, the guys who pick up our trash (the list goes on but you certainly know what I mean)

Please watch our introductory video before you proceed with this tutorial.

Ingredients:

Procedure:

1- Blend phase A in a beaker. A magnetic stirrer helps a lot and makes everything easier but you can work even without one

2- Gently blend phase C in another beaker

3- Gradually add the powder phase (phase B) to phase A. Using a sieve helps avoiding clumps

4- When all of the powder is added, slowly add the surfactant phase and blend

5- Make a 10% dilution of the product in distilled water and measure the pH. In our case it was 5,37 and we could add the preservative blend

6- I know by experience that our preservative system slightly increases the pH. I added the preservative and 2 drops of 80% lactic acid (for a 200 gr batch)

7- Prepare another 10% dilution and measure the pH. In our case it was 5,41 which is perfectly in range for us.

You may need to reduce or increase the pH to bring it in the range (for this formulation and this preservative blend it is between 5,2-5,5)

8- Take your stability and compact dry samples and fill the foam in foamer bottles.

Watch the video for the detailed instruction including pH adjustment and compact dry (micro kit) test.

Stay safe and be kind one bottle at a time