Duplicating products: Giovanni 50:50 Balanced Hydrating-Calming Conditioner (part 2)

In yesterday’s post, we took some time to look at the ingredient list for Giovanni 50:50 Balanced Hydrating-Calming Conditioner, but we didn’t create the recipe. So let’s take a look at a possible recipe for this product! I can’t find brassicamidopropyl betaine anywhere, so I’ll have to replace it with Incroquat BTMS-50 as the main conditioner....

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Getting to know INCI names

If you want to formulate your own products – whether they’re duplicates or something you’ve cooked up in your head – you need to know INCI names so you can figure out what ingredient is what. The common name for an ingredient – evening primrose oil – is not the same as the INCI name...

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Duplicating products: What have we learned so far?

I’m planning to continue with duplicating your suggestions tomorrow, but I thought we should take a moment to review what we’ve learned about formulating through duplicating commercial products! Here’s my suggested list of steps when duplicating products… Step 1: Get the complete ingredient list. You may refer to the bottle or you might have to...

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Duplicating products: Giovanni 50:50 Balanced Hydrating-Calming Conditioner

In the duplicating products post, Gabrielle suggested the Giovanni 50:50 Balanced Hydrating-Calming Conditioner as a product we should consider! Let’s take a look at it! (And if you have any ideas, go to that post and make those suggestions!) Purified Water (Aqua): Our solvent. Cetyl Alcohol: A fatty alcohol that thickens and boosts the substantivity...

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Duplicating products: Aveda’s Be Curly Shampoo

Ellbie suggested we take a look at Aveda’s Be Curly Shampoo. (If you have a suggestion for a product we could duplicate, mention it in this post!) Here’s the list of ingredients: Aqueous (water/aqua/eau) Extract/Extrait Aqueux, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf, Sodium Coco/Babassu Sulfate, Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate, Babassuamidopropyl Betaine, Glycol Distearate, Galactoarabinan, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hydroxypropyltrimonium Hydrolyzed...

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