Happy birthday, currently reigning monarch of the Commonwealth!

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Happy Victoria Day! It’s a statutory holiday in B.C. (remember, we’re still part of the Commonwealth!) and I’m off work. Today celebrates the birthday of the reigning Canadian monarch (scheduled for the Monday on or before May 24, which was Queen Victoria’s birthday). So I’m off work today and planning to slob around the house...

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Duplicating products: Curl Junkie Daily Fix Cleansing Conditioner (part three)

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So we’ve taken a look at what makes a cleansing conditioner cleansing, the ingredient list for the Curl Junkie product, and a possible duplicate. Now let’s take a look at some other ways we could duplicate this product! I suggested this recipe as a possible duplication yesterday… POSSIBLE DUPLICATION OF THE CURL JUNKIE DAILY FIX...

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Duplicating products: Curl Junkie Daily Fix Cleansing Conditioner (part two)

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So what do we need to include in a duplicate recipe for this product? Take a look at the ingredient list again – Water, Cetyl Alcohol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Methosulfate, Cetrimonium Chloride, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, PEG -7 Olivate, Guar Hydroxypropytrimonium Chloride, Tetrasodium EDTA, Hydrolyzed Oat Flour, Mentha Piperita (Pepperment) Leaf Extract, Matricaria Recuitita (Chamomile) Flower Extract, Yucca...

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Duplicating products: Curl Junkie Daily Fix Cleansing Conditioner

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We defined what it means to be a cleansing conditioner yesterday, so let’s take a look at a few of them. Today we’ll take a look at Curl Junkie’s Daily Fix Cleansing Conditioner. Let’s analyze the ingredients! Water: Our solvent. Cetyl Alcohol: A fatty alcohol that helps boost the substantivity of the cationic quaternary compound and...

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Duplicating products: Cleansing conditioners

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Before we get into trying to duplicate a few cleansing conditioners, we need to establish what it means for a product to be a cleansing conditioner versus a normal conditioner. (For a quick summary of the no-shampoo method or co-washing method, click here.) How does a cleansing conditioner differ from a normal conditioner? It doesn’t. For...

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