Susan Barclay-Nichols

An aside…Conditioners become shaving products (part 1)

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Conditioners make awesome shaving products, and you don’t need to make many tweaks to get an awesome product that offers post-shaving moisturizing! You can use any of the conditioners we’ve made with cetrimonium bromide or BTMS-50 as shaving products…but let’s tweak them to make them even more skin friendly. I love adapting conditioner bars to...

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Using your conditioner ingredients to make other products

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This isn’t the end of the series on hair care products, just a detour into the land of other bath and body products. If you’ve been making conditioners, then you have all the goodies to make other products. And if you’ve been making conditioners, you’ve been making lotions and might not have known it! Over...

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Conditioners: Solid conditioner (updated)

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I love conditioner bars! They travel well, don’t over-condition, and aren’t hard to make! In short, they’re awesome! I’ve written a great deal about conditioner bars in the past (including a visual tutorial), so I’ll offer you those links now so you can see where the recipe originates, then we’ll do some tweaking. Formulating a...

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Conditioners: Very light leave in conditioners with cationic polymers

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We’ve already seen what cationic polymers like honeyquat or polyquat 7 can do for a shampoo, so let’s take a look at using these as leave in conditioners suitable for fine hair or children’s hair. The cationic polymers are less conditioning than the cationic quaternary compounds like BTMS-50 or cetrimonium bromide, but they can offer...

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Conditioners: Detanglers using Amaze XT

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Yep, Amaze XT has some wet and dry detangling properties we can use to make some gel based detanglers. We covered a bit about this product in the building viscosity post on surfactants, but let’s re-cap and add a bit more to our knowledge base. You can use a product like Amaze XT (INCI: Dehydroxanthan...

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