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Conditioner: Defining our conditioners

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As I mentioned yesterday, there are three types of conditioners – rinse off, leave in, and intense or treatment conditioners. What are the differences? Rinse off conditioners: Rinse off conditioners tend to have between 3% to 10% cationic quaternary compounds with the rest of the ingredients being water, water soluble ingredients (like hydrolyzed proteins, panthenol,...

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Conditioner: What’s that then?

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If you’re read any of my previous posts on conditioners, you’ll notice there are three general categories – rinse off, intense or treatment, and leave-in conditioners. The formulations for each of these start in kind of the same place with us choosing our favourite cationic quaternary compound and adding hair friendly ingredients like proteins, humectants,...

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Shampoo: Summary and permanent list of links

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I figured a round-up of all the recipes and information on shampoo might be a good thing before we move onto conditioners tomorrow. You can find this as a permanent page on the right hand side of this blog under “links to lists”. So what have we learned about making shampoo? Pick the right surfactants...

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Pantene’s Fragile to Strong line – conditioner

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Yesterday we took a look at the Fragile to Strong shampoo from Pantene for fine hair. Let’s take a look at the conditioner today! How does Pantene do it? “Pantene has created a lightweight strengthening* conditioner with micro-fortifiers, which reinforces structural weakness along each strand. Targeted moisturizers protect your hair from future styling damage without...

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Shampoo: Dry shampoo

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So what’s the deal with dry shampoo? Dry shampoos (in powder form) are intended to absorb oil from your hair. I use an oil absorber in between washings because I find the ends of my hair get really trashed when I wash it regularly, so this works to remove any weird smells and the oil. (No,...

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