conditioners

Conditioners: Using silicones in rinse-off conditioners

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Silicones – like cyclomethicone and dimethicone – offer film forming, occlusive, and emollient properties to your conditioners to decrease friction, increase gloss and shine, improve wet combing, and decrease moisture retention or frizzing (which are all part of the conditioner’s goals!) Every hair type can benefit from silicones. Dry hair can benefit from the emollient...

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Conditioners: Using hydrolyzed proteins

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I love using hydrolyzed proteins in my products for skin and hair. They act as humectants, emollients, and film formers in our shampoos and conditioners, and they can increase the substantivity of your product by binding to the fatty alkyl groups found in our cationic compounds and cetyl alcohol (in other words, they make your...

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Conditioners: Specific extracts & hydrosols

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Yesterday we added hydrosols and extracts to our conditioner to make a good, basic conditioner. Today we’ll take a look at tweaking the basic recipe for specific hair types. Aloe vera is a good inclusion for most, if not all, hair types. It’s a film former and humectant, which means it can draw water to your...

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Conditioner: Basic conditioner with hydrosols and extracts!

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With a million different conditioners in the marketplace, it seems like insanity to think they’re all based off the same recipe…but they pretty much are. We saw the other day that there are really just three kinds of conditioners – rinse off, leave on, and intense or treatment – and the central component of any...

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Conditioners: Instructions for making conditioners

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Making a conditioner is a lot like making a lotion as we’re making an emulsion that brings together oil soluble and water soluble ingredients with a cationic quaternary compound that is behaving as an emulsifier. Our water phase contains the water soluble ingredients, the oil phase contains our oil soluble ingredients, and the cool down phase contains...

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