Hair care products

Q&A: Can we add oil soluble botanical extracts to conditioner bars? Part one, determining the charge of a botanical extract

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In this post, Weekend Wonderings: All about conditioner bars, Rick asks, I have been reading through the “Conditioner bars you will love” book and am thinking about adding some “botanical extracts” to see if they improve the bars. Here’s my first questions: 1) How do you tell if an extract (or any ingredient, for that...

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Q&A: Is it safe to use 60% BTMS-25 or BTMS-50 in a conditioner bar? What are the suggested usage rates?

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In this post – Q&A about conditioner bars! – Sarah asked, Hi Susan, thank you for all of this incredible info! I’ve noticed that the suggested usage rate for both BTMS 25 and 50 is up to 10%, but in many of your conditioner bar formulas you are using them up to 60% (and have...

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Let’s create a gorgeous dry hair & scalp hydrating conditioner using BTMS-50 with loads of botanicals and actives (includes formula)

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Let’s modify the gorgeous winter hair & scalp hydrating spray full of botanicals and actives to be a lovely dry hair & scalp hydrating conditioner that uses BTMS-50 as the cationic emulsifier! We made a decadent version of this conditioner in a parts one and two of a series I shared last week: Today, let’s...

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#alltheingredients: Fision® HydraTress – awesome hair active!

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Let’s take a closer look at this gorgeous new-to-me blend of vitamins, humectants, and proteins I’ve been using in my hydrating winter skin & scalp spray that we’ll be adapting to be other products shortly – Fision® HydraTress (INCI: Water, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glycerin, Pisum Sativum (Pea) Seed Extract, 1,2 -Hexanediol, Sodium Hyaluronate) We’ve met...

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Q&A: What ingredients are emulsifying this co-wash conditioner? Can we make it ourselves?

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In the Q&A section, JimmieTF asked, Hi Susan, I came across a “co-wash” product by a brand called “As I Am”, called “Coconut CoWash“. The ingredients are; Aqueous (Water, Aqua Purificada, Purified) Extracts: Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) and Citrus Reticulata (Tangerine)¹, Cetyl Alcohol², Cetrimonium Chloride, Cetearyl Alcohol², PEG-40 Castor Oil, Stearalkonium chloride, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil²,...

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