Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Choosing the other ingredients in the formula, like botanical extracts, proteins, humectants, and preservatives (part five)

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Welcome back to this series on creating a clarifying shampoo! In part one, we took a look at all kinds of things, we need to know as we work through this series, like what’s a clarifying shampoo, what’s the deal with surfactants, what does it mean for our ingredients to have a charge, and so...

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Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Considering surfactant blends, then choosing surfactants (part four) 

Welcome back to this series on creating a clarifying shampoo! In part one, we took a look at all kinds of things, we need to know as we work through this series, like what’s a clarifying shampoo, what’s the deal with surfactants, what does it mean for our ingredients to have a charge, and so...

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Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Surfactants – pH, ASM, and “safe as used rates” (part three)

Welcome back to this series on creating a clarifying shampoo! In part one, we took a look at all kinds of things, we need to know as we work through this series, like what’s a clarifying shampoo, what’s the deal with surfactants, what does it mean for our ingredients to have a charge, and so...

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Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Considering the basic formula, ingredients we could add, thickening a surfactant based product (part two)

Welcome back to this series on creating a clarifying shampoo! In part one, we took a look at all kinds of things, we need to know as we work through this series, like what’s a clarifying shampoo, what’s the deal with surfactants, what does it mean for our ingredients to have a charge, and so...

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Creating a liquid clarifying shampoo: Defining our product, looking at surfactants, defining charges (part one)

One of my favourite things to do is play with liquid surfactants to create all kinds of lovely facial cleansers, foaming facial cleansers, body washes/shower gels, shampoos, bubble baths, and so much more. I love trying a bit of this surfactant, a bit of that one, and seeing what happens to the foam, bubbles, lather,...

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