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Cetrimonium bromide isn’t used a lot by homecrafters as it isn’t easy to get, but it is a great cationic quaternary compound for really damaged hair, especially hair with gaps in the cuticle. It isn’t as lubricating as BTMS, so you’ll want to include some oils or silicones or cetyl alcohol to ensure you are...
p suggested…You know how you posted on how you duplicate a product? I would absolutely love an analogous post on how you research ingredients and formulations. You shed so much light on topics that other sites discuss only casually. Do you do your research mostly through books? Or is the web actually a really good...
It’s June 2, which means it’s Mole Day in North America! From wikipedia: A mole has 6.02×10(23) atoms or molecules of the pure substance being measured. A mole of a substance has mass in grams exactly equal to the substance’s molecular or atomic weight. So if carbon has an atomic weight of 12 grams, this...
Yep, it’s that time of year again (at least in the Northern Hemisphere)! It’s time to buy buckets of sunscreen and make sure Mr. Sun doesn’t make us all red and unhappy! We definitely need to be wearing sunscreen!There are two types of sunscreen ingredients – physical blockers and chemical blockers. The physical blockers are titanium...
Our hair strands are made up of three main components – the medulla, the cortex, and the cuticle (there’s a lot more – and if you want to know it, please read the Royal Society of Chemistry’s great PDF on the topic – but there’s simply not enough time to go over every single bit!)....