Hair care products

These are a few of my favourite things: Volumizing complex (updated)

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I’ve been using the Volumizing Complex from the Formulator Sample Shop* in my leave in conditioner for quite a few years, and I won’t make a leave in without it! The INCI for this product is Water & Rice Amino Acids & Lactobacillus/Date Fruit Ferment Extract & Polyperfluoroethoxymethoxy Difluorethyl PEG Phosphate. The rice amino acids will...

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Weekend Wonderings: Why use three surfactant blends in products?

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In this post, Surfactants: A conditioning shampoo with SCI for normal to oily hair, Fatima asks: Can you tell me why another surfactant is needed? Wouldn’t this work perfectly fine with just the two? Great question! We use different surfactants blended together because each brings something different to the mix. Take a look at decyl...

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What hair type do you have?

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Do you have oily hair? Dry? Normal? How do you know? If you have to wash your hair every day or every other day because of oil build up, you have oily hair. If you wash your hair with a very mild shampoo and you still feel you have an oily scalp, you have oily hair....

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Weekday Wonderings: Can I include slippery elm or MSM in a leave in conditioner?

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In this post, a very light leave in conditioner, Kelly asks: But in this conditioner could we add in slippery elm powder extract and msm powder? Slippery elm and marshmallow root are good to add slip to hair, saw some diy recipes on naturally curly of course they don’t include the honeyquat, preservatives, etc. this question...

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

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An administrative thing: Subscribing to posts doesn’t seem to work right now, so the easy solution is to make a comment and tick that you want to see follow up comments. Subscribing to the entire blog will not get you any of the comments. This only means you will get each day’s post by email....

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