Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part two): Conditioners, humectants, proteins, hydrosols, and botanicals! 

Welcome back to this four part series in which we’re making a shampoo filled with a veritable botanical bounty of fantastic ingredients for normal to oily hair! In part one, Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants!, we looked at what it meant to...

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Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants! 

You all know I’m a huge fan of shampoo bars – click here for my enormous post on shampoo bars that’ll help you navigate all the materials I have on these – but sometimes I like a nice liquid shampoo I can take to my hairdresser that won’t be as super bubbly, foamy, lathery™ and...

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Linkorama! All the links to liquid shampoo formulas on this site!

One of the very first products I made was a shampoo to help with my very oily hair, and I fell in love with making hair care products at that moment. I’ve made so many in the last 14 years, and here they are! You’ll see the e-books I’ve written on the topic at the...

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Emulsifiers: Ritamulse SCG (updated April 30, 2023, including linked formulas)

Before you start this post, I have a Newbie Tuesday beginner lotion making series with Ritamulse SCG that I think you’ll enjoy. I go more into the chemistry of lotion making and using this emulsifier with sample formulas and annoyed instructions on how to make these emulsions. The first post is here (click link), with...

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