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Liquids

Extensive range of easily-customisable cleansing and nourishing soap, shampoo and conditioner bases

Features and benefits of our Liquid products

Ideal for quick creation of natural cleansing and hydrating products for hair, face and body applications

Ideal for quick creation of natural cleansing and hydrating products for hair, face and body applications

Our liquids can be adapted with the simple addition of colour, fragrance, and sometimes a thickening solution to produce a variety of fantastic finished liquid products

Extensive value-adding range to meet consumer demand

Extensive value-adding range to meet consumer demand

Allows manufacturing of a variety personal care products from natural or certified organic shower gels, liquid hand soap, 3-in-1 hair and body cleanser, foam soap etc. with vegan and cruelty-free claims

Safe to use and suitable for a variety of skin and hair types

Safe to use and suitable for a variety of skin and hair types

The range offers effective skin cleansing and moisturising solutions suitable for normal, oily and dry skin. Some bases also offer low pH, sulphate-free and preservative-free formulations more suitable for sensitive skin types

Natural and organic trends met with certified COSMOS, NOP and RSPO products

Natural and organic trends met with certified COSMOS, NOP and RSPO products

The range includes certified organic COSMOS, Organic NOP and RSPO Segregated (SG) liquid bases for certified final soap and hair applications

Our products

Products Certification Highlights
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3 in 1 Body Wash Base Liquids • Vegan Products
Create customised shower gels, hand washes and bubble bath products with great performance
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Cosmos certified RSPO
Body Wash Base C-MB Liquids • Made with Organic • Vegan Products • Certified RSPO
For creating COSMOS certified organic body washes or shower gels
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Suspending Body Wash Liquids • Vegan Products
For creating body washes with perfectly suspended particles
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Premium Hair & Body Wash Base Liquids • Vegan Products
Easily customisable hair and body wash base for premium cleansing
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Cosmos certified RSPO
Shampoo Base C-MB Liquids • Made with Organic • Vegan Products • Certified RSPO
For easy to make organic COSMOS & RSPO certified shampoo
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Cosmos certified RSPO
Hair Conditioner Base C-MB Liquids • Vegan Products • Made with Organic • Certified RSPO
For creating organic COSMOS & RSPO certified hair conditioner
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Liquid Crystal Concentrate Liquids • Vegan Products
Create customised shampoo, hand and body washes or shower gels from one concentrated base.
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RSPO
Liquid Soap PK-SG Liquids • Certified RSPO • Vegan Products • Sustainable
For creating RSPO certified sustainable liquid hand and body washes
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Cosmos certified USDA NOP
Liquid Soap 101 Liquids • Vegan Products • Made with Organic
For creating a wide range of organic hand and body washes certified COSMOS
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Cosmos certified USDA NOP
Liquid Soap 105 Liquids • Made with Organic • Vegan Products
For creating a wide range of organic COSMOS certified liquid hand and body washes

Packaging options

5kg Keg

Great for small production runs

25kg Keg and 200KG Drum

Suitable for larger production runs

Liquids

Liquid FAQs

These are some of our most common questions we receive about our Liquid products. If there is something else you’d like to know, please contact us and a member of the Stephenson team would be more than happy to assist.

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The majority of our bases are gluten-free - if you require further information please contact us here.

We use palm and palm kernel oils, and ingredients derived from both oils. Wherever possible, we use oil and ingredients from certified sustainable sources. All products that are made using certified sustainable palm and palm ingredients have the letters SG or MB at the end of their name referring to RSPO Segregated (SG) and RSPO Mass Balance (MB). It isn’t possible to source everything we use from certified sustainable sources, but we are always researching and discussing with our suppliers to find new options.

Lye (also known as Sodium Hydroxide or Potassium Hydroxide) is the material that is used in making all of our soaps. Solid soaps (Crystal Melt and Pour range or Extruded soap bases) use Lye from Sodium Hydroxide, while Stephenson Liquid soaps use Lye from Potassium Hydroxide. We use Lye to saponify oils and/or fatty acids to produce soap. Once the soap is produced, all the lye is used up during the saponification reaction and so there is none left in the final product.

No, we are a speciality base supplier, we manufacture and ship soap bases and other product bases that are converted by our customers into finished products. Typically our bases make up around 80-99% of a finished product.

No, we are strictly against animal testing and our ingredients are not tested on animals.

GMP applies to companies manufacturing finished products. As a supplier of ingredients and bases, this does not apply. Stephenson holds ISO 9001 Quality Certification and supplies companies that have GMP certification.

We've been making soap here at Stephenson’s since 1856, originally for the textile industry.

Yes, all the glycerine used in our soap bases is derived from vegetable sources.

Most of our product are vegan friendly. Only small amount of our products contain animal-derived milk and honey. These include Crystal Goat’s Milk, Crystal Donkey Milk and Crystal Honey.

The pH cannot be adjusted as this will cause the soap to revert to fatty acid at which point solids will form.

Yes, you can make both hand wash and body wash from our liquid soaps. Be aware that these products would not be suitable for hair care products as they have high pH levels which can strip and damage hair of natural properties.

For an effective bubble bath, we would recommend using our Liquid Crystal Concentrate, a high concentrate blend of mild surfactants the product can be diluted, coloured, fragranced and simply thickened with a salt solution.

There are many different ways to thicken liquid soap. It depends on what additional ingredients you add and how much you dilute the base. Our Organic Liquid Castile soap thickens with the simple addition of a 20% salt solution, however, our Liquid 101 bases for example only thickens with Cellulose thickeners such as Guar Gum.

For our liquid products we have four types of packaging for our liquid bases. We supply in 10kg kegs, 25kg kegs, 200kg drums and 1,000kg IBC / tote containers.

Want to know more?

To speak to a member of the Stephenson team, please complete the form opposite and we’ll get in touch.

Alternatively you can speak to our sales team using the details below:

Telephone:

+44 113 205 0900
Mon-Thurs:

8am - 4:30pm

Fri:

8am - 4pm

Sat-Sun:

Closed