Blah blo: New classes at Voyageur & Soap Candle, e-mail notifications, links to articles, and nickel

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We’ve figured out the schedule for classes at Voyageur over the summer, which includes intro to hair care, intro to lotion making, eco facial care, eco skin care, and our new classes, luxe facial care and a bunch for youth, including mineral make-up, fun with fragrances, and bath time fun. COOL CHEMISTRY INFOGRAPHICS I always...

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Creating hair care products: What do we want our products to do?

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I realized I wanted to share more with you about hair and potential damage and such in this series about my new favourite conditioner from the other day. I’ll share my post on my new favourite ingredient, keratin hydrolysate silox tomorrow as I wanted to share a few formulas I found from various manufacturers using...

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Creating a cold process, light kukui nut oil conditioner or lotion with Jeequat® NDCS/ICE conditioner

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On Saturday, I shared my new epic conditioner that uses ICE Conditioner or JEEQUAT® NDCS or Naturally Derived Conditioning System (INCI: Cetyl alcohol, behentrimonium chloride, cocamidopropyl betaine, sorbitan laurate.) Yesterday, on Sunday, we learned more about this ingredient. Today, I’d like to share with you a super quick, cold process conditioner or lotion so easy to make, we...

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#alltheingredients: ICE Conditioner or JEEQUAT® NDCS or Naturally Derived Conditioning System.

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I’ve shared some formulas with you using ICE Hair Restore or Jeesperse ICE-T CPCS (INCI: Cetearyl alcohol (and) behentrimonium chloride (and) polyquaternium 37), a cold process hair conditioning emulsifier we can use to make to make quick conditioners without heating. Let’s meet another cold process emulsifier, ICE Conditioner or JEEQUAT® NDCS or Naturally Derived Conditioning System....

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CONFIRMED! Formula for an epic level rinse off conditioner with behentrimonium chloride

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Normally when I encounter new ingredients, I like to wait at least 9 months before I share the formulas with you as I need to make sure the product is stable, well preserved, and all around good. But I’ve made a conditioner that is so awesome, I’ve had strangers on the street compliment my hair...

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