conditioners

Question: How to use BTMS-25 in place of BTMS-50?

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A few questions have come up around using BTMS-25 in a conditioner when you don’t have access to BTMS-50, so let’s take a look at what we could do here! (Click here for the post on substitutions, click for the post on emulsifiers!) What’s the difference between BTMS-25 and BTMS-50? BTMS-50 is behentrimonium methosulfate (and) cetyl...

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A few thoughts for the day: Cleansing conditioners & pH of our bodies

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I’ve been seeing these Wen Cleansing Conditioner ads on the TV quite regularly, and it seems like you’ve been seeing them, too. So here are a few posts I’ve written on this topic… Duplicating products: Cleansing conditioners How does the no-shampoo concept work? (This is where I analyze the Wen Cleansing Conditioner. My conclusion: They are...

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Some thoughts on hair butters…

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Quite a few people have written to me recently to ask about hair butters, and I did a little research into the topic. I’ve never heard of a hair butter before – remember, I haven’t bought commercial hair care products in years, so I have no reason to go into those sections of stores! –...

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Experiments in the workshop: Behenyl alcohol in an intense conditioner with butters

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I thought I’d try using behenyl alcohol in an intense conditioner with butters and oils. It makes sense, because people who have hair so dry or so brittle that they need to use butters in a conditioner, could probably benefit from the added slip and conditioning of this fatty alcohol. I chose this recipe (found...

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Experiments in the workshop: Behenyl alcohol in a conditioner (part 1)

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I do love my conditioners, and I thought I’d experiment further with one I experimented with last October – my intense conditioner with all my conditioning agents! – by adding a little behenyl alcohol to the mix. Point of interest: Adding a fatty alcohol to a cationic quaternary compound – like BTMS, BTMS-50, cetrimonium bromide,...

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