conditioners

What’s important in a conditioner? Part two…

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As we discovered yesterday, we can make a conditioner with only a few ingredients – the cationic emulsifier like Incroquat BTMS-50, water, and a preservative. We can make it a little more substantive and emollient by adding a fatty alcohol like cetyl alcohol.  Let’s take a look at another conditioner recipe (taken from this post)!...

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What’s important in a conditioner? Part one…

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A conditioner, by definition, contains a positively charged ingredient that will adsorb to your hair strand to increase lubricity, decrease friction, decrease fly-aways, and increase combability. These positively charged ingredients include Incroquat BTMS-50, Incroquat CR, Incroquat BTMS-25 or Rita BTMS-225, cetrimonium bromide, cetrimonium chloride, and so on. This main ingredient is generally an emulsifier, meaning...

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Experiments in the workshop: Leave in conditioner with kera straightening and lycopene bioferment (updated)

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I love leave in conditioners! They offer so much wonderful awesomeness to your hair with low levels of ingredients. Where to start making a leave in conditioner? As usual, think about your goals? What do you want in this product? That answer will help you move in the right direction! I have oily, frizzy hair...

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Weekday Wonderings: Using BTMS-25 in solid scrub bars? Making oil free moisturizers?

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In this post, Incroquat BTMS-50 in solid scrub bars, Birgit asks: Update on the scrub bar: even though it was soft, I took it to shower after I had “cured” it for a few days. First, I was quite thrilled, the level of scrubbiness was very nice, and it went on well. The problem arose...

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Wednesday Wonderings: What’s the difference between BTMS-25 and BTMS-50?

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In this post on turning conditioner bars into shaving bars, Melanie asks, What is the difference in usage between BTMS and BTMS-50? I see that BTMS-50 includes Butylene Glycol, but how do I choose between these two when making a shaving bar? (or anything else for that matter) From this post, how to use BTMS-25 in...

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