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One of the most popular sections of this blog are the hair care products, so I thought we should spend a few days looking at shampoos, conditioners, and leave in conditioners. Let’s take a look at shampoo first… What is a shampoo? A shampoo is a foamy product intended to cleanse your hair, remove dirt...
INCREASING THE MOISTURIZING POWER OF CONDITIONERIn this post on basic conditioner recipes, Kate asks: I’ve been making your Basic Rinse Off Conditioner (Daily version with 4% BTMS-50, 2% Cetyl and 92.5% Water) for two months now and i like it! But I would like to know: what’s your opinion about adding 5% oil and reduce water...
Sorry for the lack of posts this week! I was doing research – aka having great fun – in the workshop, and I wanted to do just that little bit more, and that ate into my post writing time. Plus I have a ton of products out for testing, so that’s going to take another...
As was mentioned in this post, “There is no shampoo that has shown evidence of hair growth effects simply because shampoo is not absorbed enough into the scalp to offer the ability to have any significant effect on the hair follicles. For the same reason it is very unlikely that a shampoo could have an...
I regularly get questions about using emulsifiers like Polawax or Ritamulse SCG in our conditioners, and the general answer is no, you can’t use those emulsifiers to make conditioners. We use ingredients like Incroquat BTMS-50, Rita BTMS-225, and cetrimonium bromide to create conditioners and they are emulsifiers, but that isn’t their only feature: We’re using...