conditioners

An aside…Leave-in conditioners become light lotions with extracts and hydrosols

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Yesterday we took a look at making a light, sprayable lotion using BTMS as our emulsifier. Today we’ll take that basic recipe and add a few ingredients that might help with some of the issues we encounter in the summer time! Summer means heat, so I like to modify my lotions to be less occlusive...

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An aside…Leave-in conditioners become light lotions

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You may remember way back when I started this series on conditioners, I mentioned that making a conditioner is a bit like making a lotion. You have a heated oil phase, a heated water phase, and a cool down phase. You’re making an emulsion with the BTMS or cetrimonium bromide. So let’s take a look at...

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An aside…Leave-in conditioners become beard conditioners

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I’ve written about beard conditioners before, but I thought I’d expand the topic a little more considering we’ve been discussing conditioners at length for a while. Manly men with giant beards can benefit from beard conditioners in two ways – it can help keep their beards nicely conditioned and detangled, and it can help moisturize...

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An aside…Conditioners become shaving products (part 2)

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I like to make a conditioner-like shaving lotion as well…(originally from this post) SHAVING LOTIONOIL PHASE3% Incroquat BTMS or cetrimonium bromide2% cetyl alcohol2% jojoba oil2.7% shea, fractionated coconut, or other light oil2% phytokeratin or other hydrolyzed protein1.1% silk protein HEATED WATER PHASE5% aloe vera (increase to 10% if you like)80.7% water1% hydrovance or other humectant...

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An aside…Conditioners become shaving products (part 1)

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Conditioners make awesome shaving products, and you don’t need to make many tweaks to get an awesome product that offers post-shaving moisturizing! You can use any of the conditioners we’ve made with cetrimonium bromide or BTMS-50 as shaving products…but let’s tweak them to make them even more skin friendly. I love adapting conditioner bars to...

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