Raymond Nichols

Honeyquat in hair care products (updated)

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Honeyquat was made for hair care products – literally! – so including it in a conditioner is a wonderful and good thing. It offers good wet combing and conditioning, and helps with anti-static control. Let’s take a look at a conditioner we made in the conditioning post…. OILY HAIR CONDITIONER – defrizzing, conditioning, moisturizing without...

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Honeyquat in skin care products

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Now you know everything there is to know about honeyquat…how do we incorporate it into our products? Honeyquat is best used at 5% or lower in your creations, although I do prefer 2 to 3%. You can include it in body washes and toners (see below), and lotions. Adding it to your creations offers you...

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Better crafting through chemistry: Honeyquat (updated)

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So what exactly is honeyquat and how do you use it? Honeyquat is a cationic quaternary polymer – meaning it is a positively charged conditioning agent. It is different than the Incroquat BTMS that we have been using in hair care products in that it is a polymer and not a cationic compound, like the...

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Mineral make up – Part 10: Using blue iron oxide to make blue

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This is the blue iron oxide on paper. Behold its mighty power to colour everything it sees, including your hands! So be sparing with it in your eye shadows! As you saw in the last post on MMU, you can use base and micas to get a nice, translucent, shiny blue. But perhaps you’re not...

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Better crafting through chemistry: Occlusion (updated)

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What the heck is occlusion? This is the way we prevent transepidermal water loss (TEWL) from our skin. (From Wikipedia: TEWL is defined as the measurement of the quantity of water that passes from inside a body through the epidermal layer – skin – to the surrounding atmosphere via diffusion and evaporation processes.) We want...

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