Hair care products

Zoom workshop Q&A: Creating a conditioning cleanser with more viscosity?

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Thanks again for joining me for our Spring Q&A Zoom workshop meeting. Here’s a great question that came out of that workshop on May 2, 2021, from Lore C! Question posed by Lore C: I’ve made 5 – 100ml batches of your cleansing hair conditioner from this post adjusting a bit each time to try...

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Creating an amaranth & carob bouncin’ and behavin’ volumizing conditioner! Part one, using Jeesperse® ICE-T CIS-2 (formula)

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Yesterday, we met this awesome hair care active, NaturePep® Amaranth (INCI: Water, Amaranthus Caudatus Seed Extract), full of proteins and amino acids, great for volumizing and thickening products for our hair. Today, let’s create a formula for a rinse-off volumizing and thickening conditioner using Jeesperse® ICE-T CIS-2 that’ll give you all that bouncy, but behaving,...

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Q&A quickie: When do we add the “cool down phase” to conditioner bars?

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I’m getting a lot of questions about this, which makes me think you’re all making conditioner bars out there! Yay, they’re so much fun! The short answer is that you add the “cool down phase” to the heated conditioner phase after you remove it from the heat, mix, then pour it into moulds. In my...

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#alltheingredients: Plant Keratin (aka VegeKeratin) – hydrolyzed protein, hair active

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Plant Keratin, sometimes called VegeKeratin, (INCI:  Wheat Amino Acids, Soy Amino Acids, Arginine HCI, Serine, Threonine) is a plant-based combination amino acids for hair and skin products to increase hydration and condition. What does this do? It claims it can increase hair strength, increase hair elasticity, reduce breakage, reduce wet and dry combing forces, reduce...

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Blast from the past: Conditioners! Loads of links!

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I love conditioners so much! There are so many kinds you can make – rinse off, intense, leave in, pre-wash, deep conditioning, volumizing, and hair masks, to name a few – and so many different ways to make them. I thought I’d share a few of my favourite formulas! As a quick note: Don’t forget...

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