Month: June 2020

#alltheingredients: Crodazoquat MCC (Behentrimonium Methosulfate (and) Quaternium-87 (and) Cetearyl Alcohol) – conditioner

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In the shampoo bar Zoom workshop on Sunday, June 14, 2020, Zikhona asked about Crodazoquat MCC (INCI name: Behentrimonium Methosulfate (and) Quaternium-87 (and) Cetearyl Alcohol). Let’s take a look at this conditioner that’s advertised to work well for African hair types. “Crodazoquat MCC is a hair conditioning agent that meets the needs of an increasingly diverse...

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Questions from the recent Zoom workshop on shampoo bars: Adding emollients

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I’m still going through the chat log for the shampoo bar workshop we held on Sunday, June 14th, 2020 trying to answer the questions I might not have addressed. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at adding emollients and other moisturizers. Links for the entire series… In part one, we took a look at how to substitute...

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And now, another installment of “for the love of God, please don’t make this!” Coloured lip balms

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So 5 minutes crafts decided they would share this video, “5 colourful crayon ideas”. The one that made me scream so loud I startled the dog is number four. Spoiler alert if you don’t want to watch the video: Don’t make lip balms from crayons. Video on Facebook. Making lip balms are actually pretty simple...

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Creating volumizing liquid shampoo, shampoo bars, and conditioners..,

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I’m asked a lot how to make volumizing shampoos, both liquid and solid, and the key is to leave out all those things that could weigh down hair, like Cetearyl Alcohol, hard butters, liquid oils, and large quantities of conditioning emulsifiers, like Incroquat BTMS-50. If you see a formula that contains these ingredients, you can...

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Questions from the recent Zoom workshop on shampoo bars: Adding conditioners to bars

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Thanks for joining me today! In this post, we’ll be taking a look at the questions you had about the pH of the shampoo bars we made in the Zoom workshop on June 14th, 2020. I’ve been going through the chat you were having – which was awesome! – and trying to answer the questions...

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