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Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part four): The formula and process! 

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Welcome back to this four part series in which we’re making a shampoo filled with a veritable botanical bounty of fantastic ingredients for normal to oily hair! In part one, Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants!, we looked at what it meant to...

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Linkorama! All the links to liquid shampoo formulas on this site!

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One of the very first products I made was a shampoo to help with my very oily hair, and I fell in love with making hair care products at that moment. I’ve made so many in the last 14 years, and here they are! You’ll see the e-books I’ve written on the topic at the...

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#alltheingredients: Poly Suga Quat L-1010P (INCI: Polyquaternium 78) with formulas!

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This conditioning ingredient profile appeared in its original form in the e-book, Shiny things, volume 3: Things that distracted me, issued in November 2019. This is is the kind of material I share in these e-books – ingredient profiles, emollient profiles, other profiles along with formulas to show you how to use them.  Many are exclusive...

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Creating a body wash/shower gel with Iselux Ultra Mild (formulas)

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Yesterday, we met an awesome anionic (negatively charged) surfactant blend called Iselux Ultra Mild (INCI: Water (and) Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate (and) Cocamidopropyl Betaine (and) Sodium Methyl Oleoyl Taurate (and) Lauryl Glucoside (and) Coco-Glucoside) and learned everything we might want to know about it so we can make some seriously awesome products! Today, let’s make...

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Q&A: Creating a stable, well-preserved lotion with bee products? (Extra long post!)

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As a note, this is a giant post, but I wanted to share this without all the work of having to decide where to end the post, add new links, and do all that stuff that delays posts, so here’s what I would have shared over four days! If you have a formula you want...

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