Weekend Wonderings: Do we need to make a complicated shampoo if we’re using a nice conditioner?

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What do you want to know? Creating a setting lotion

I realized I didn’t address quite a few questions in last year’s post, What do you want to know?, so I thought I’d attempt to answer a few of them here and over the next few weeks. Wendy asked about making a setting lotion. I’m not sure if I can help here, but perhaps we...

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What’s important in a conditioner? Part one…

A conditioner, by definition, contains a positively charged ingredient that will adsorb to your hair strand to increase lubricity, decrease friction, decrease fly-aways, and increase combability. These positively charged ingredients include Incroquat BTMS-50, Incroquat CR, Incroquat BTMS-25 or Rita BTMS-225, cetrimonium bromide, cetrimonium chloride, and so on. This main ingredient is generally an emulsifier, meaning...

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Weekend Wonderings: Why are you using willow bark in a rinse off product? Do we need preservatives in our cleaning products? Why doesn’t handmade soap make a good shampoo?

In this post, Experiments in the workshop: A 3-in-1 that might be good for swimmers, Marg asks: Can you explain your thinking on adding white willow bark extract to your 3 in 1? I love that product, and use it in my aftershave lotion to soothe tiny nicks or scrapes, but not sure if its...

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Shampoo: Why we use what we use in a shampoo

Someone asked if I could make a shampoo recipe with fewer ingredients than those that are currently on the blog. The answer is yes, but… Yes, but the problem that those ingredients are the ones that take a shampoo from okay to freakin’ awesome! If you’re new to the idea of creating a shampoo, take...

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