Conditioners: Modifying the leave-in conditioner with extracts or hydrosols!

Extracts and hydrosols in your leave-in conditioners can offer anti-inflammatory, anti-irritancy, anti-oxidant, film forming, and moisturizing benefits to an already awesome product! We know our botanical ingredients can have awesome benefits in a rinse-off conditioner – which ones could we choose for a leave-in conditioner? Well, most of them would be suitable – check out...

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Why am I perceived as hating “all natural” things?

I love my all natural babassu butter body butter! You can find the recipe here!  I received an e-mail last night from someone who notes she is a formulator of mostly natural bath and body products, and that she was writing to  me “even though I know you have little love for formulators like me”,...

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Conditioners: Modifying the leave-in conditioner with Incroquat CR.

Okay, so we’ve seen how we can include BTMS-50 and cetrimonium bromide, so why not make a leave in conditioner with Incroquat CR? We’ll be getting more into using Incroquat CR alone in a detangling product shortly, but we can include it in our leave-in conditioners to add more anti-static and softening properties. As with any...

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Conditioners: Modifying the leave-in conditioner with cetrimonium bromide

So how can we modify a leave-in conditioner? We looked at the basic recipe yesterday, and we’ve already tweaked this to include oils, so what can we do next? Let’s try using another cationic quaternary compound! Cetrimonium bromide is a great cationic quaternary compound for those of us with damaged hair. Let’s use that as...

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Conditioners: Leave-in conditioners (updated)

I love leave-in conditioners! I generally make a litre at a time to last me at least six months because I’d hate to run out of it! Don’t you love this container? Look at all these exclamation marks! I’m very enthusiastic about this topic!  What’s the point of a leave in conditioner? We use these...

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