Month: June 2010

Conditioners: Using silicones in rinse-off conditioners

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Silicones – like cyclomethicone and dimethicone – offer film forming, occlusive, and emollient properties to your conditioners to decrease friction, increase gloss and shine, improve wet combing, and decrease moisture retention or frizzing (which are all part of the conditioner’s goals!) Every hair type can benefit from silicones. Dry hair can benefit from the emollient...

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Question: How can you tell if it’s a good recipe?

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I’m really excited to see all the tutorials popping up around the ‘net for bath and body products – one day we’ll all be making our own stuff and the giant corporations will fall (insert evil genius laugh here) and we’ll all have lovely skin and shiny hair and overly white teeth that blind anyone...

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Conditioners: Using hydrolyzed proteins

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I love using hydrolyzed proteins in my products for skin and hair. They act as humectants, emollients, and film formers in our shampoos and conditioners, and they can increase the substantivity of your product by binding to the fatty alkyl groups found in our cationic compounds and cetyl alcohol (in other words, they make your...

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Product testing!

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With most crafts, you know right away if something works – your earrings don’t fall off, your skirt fits, your cookies look and taste great. With making bath & body products, time is an essential component in determining success or failure. I like to give it at least three months – preferably six months –...

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Conditioners: Specific extracts & hydrosols

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Yesterday we added hydrosols and extracts to our conditioner to make a good, basic conditioner. Today we’ll take a look at tweaking the basic recipe for specific hair types. Aloe vera is a good inclusion for most, if not all, hair types. It’s a film former and humectant, which means it can draw water to your...

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