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Exfoliating sugar in body wash - how do they achieve this?
The body wash pictured below has sugar suspended in it which gives it a nice exfoliating feel. I would like to try this as well but am curious about what keeps the sugar from dissolving? It is easily visible throughout the bottle as the particles are rather large, I guess I’m just wondering is there a certain type of sugar that’s good for this or some particular technique used to keep it from dissolving?
Also as a side note I noticed there is gelatin in the ingredients which I’ve never seen in a product such as this. What would be the purpose of that?thanks
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from the ingredients list, it looks like they’ve included caramel and molasses to support the claim of ‘brown sugar’ but the particulate matter itself is some kind of non-sugar abrasive; if it were actual sugar, it would be listed as ‘sucrose’, and as you say, it would have dissolved long before it got to the point of sale
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hmm well this is interesting because the bottle I have actually has a slightly different LOI than what I find for it online. My bottle doesn’t have caramel and molasses but it does have sucrose. I’m seeing now that it also has hydrated silica listed so I’m guessing that’s what is giving it the exfoliating effect, not the sugar (or molasses).
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