Chemistry of your hair: Adsorbing and substantivity

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Two definitions you should know when dealing with hair care products – what it means when something is substantive, and what it means when something adsorbs to your hair. (From the post “How conditioners work!” from July 25, 2009…) A conditioning agent (like Incroquat BTMS-50) is a cationic quaternary compound. It’s a positively charged compound...

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Chemistry of your hair: An overview

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Hair is a fascinating subject for me – with good reason, some might say – and it is the reason I started making my own bath & body products. I couldn’t find shampoo just for oily hair any more – it was all “greasy roots, dry ends” kind of stuff – and I figured I...

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A series on hair – a few notes and a question!

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Whether your hair is long or short, curly or straight, we all want to take care of our crowning glory! As you can see, my husband and I are big on the long hair! (BTW: Only 4 more days until our first anniversary!) Someone suggested I put up a shopping list for the products we’ll...

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Formulating facial moisturizers – silicone based

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A lot of the commercial moisturizers you see are pretty silicone heavy, and we know silicones are a great way to offer barrier protection (dimethicone) and behave as surface smoothing agents for aging skin. I can guarantee if my mom likes a moisturizer, it’s likely to be quite silicone heavy. They offer quite a lovely...

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Replicating Spectro-Jel for blemish prone skin

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I think Spectro-Jel might be a Canadian only product, but it’s been a very effective cleanser for my skin for years (until I started making my own – but I still take it on camping trips because it’s a great no-water-necessary cleanser!) It’s a lot like the Cetaphil cleanser we looked at the other day...

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