Month: August 2011

A few thoughts for a summery Saturday!

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Okay, so not everything in the world is a chemical. (Shock and horror! Gasp!) Electrons, protons, and neutrons are not chemicals – they’re parts of a chemical, but not chemical themselves. (Thank you to my wonderful husband for pointing THAT out!)When should we include panthenol? Everything I’ve read indicates the liquid form can be heat...

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The great conditioner experiment: Modifying the recipe!

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I’ve been agonizing over this post for a few days now over this recipe because my original recipe adds up to 105 grams, so if I add 50 grams of water and 0.25 grams of preservative, the grand total of the product will be 155.75. So I could just leave the recipe as is and...

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The great conditioner experiment: Results!

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In June, I decided to undertake the great conditioner experiment to see just how much conditioner my hair might really need! (Click here for more information, although I’ll summarize it below!) I’ve got below-my-waist length, coarse, oily, prone to frizzy hair, but other than the period of time where I went pink (look to your...

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Question: What does active mean in our surfactants?

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Ruth wrote to ask me this question: What does it mean, when a ingredient says it is 25% or 30% or etc. active? Do you use them differently? Depending on the active %? Great question, Ruth! We see this mostly with surfactants in that the ingredient contains 25% of the active ingredient – something like cocamidopropyl betaine...

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Question: Why are behentrimonium methosulfate and cetearyl written together?

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Angel wrote to me to ask: Why are behentrimonium methosulfate and cetearyl alcohol often written together as though they are a compound solution?  I understand your explanation of why the cetearyl alcohol is used with the behentrimonium methosulfate in hair conditioners.  But is there a reason why I’ve found the two written together as one compound...

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