hair products

Formulating with shea butter – intense hair conditioner

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It’s winter and that means subjecting your hair and skin to the ravages of cold, snow, ice, and wind! Lovely oils and emollients to the rescue! Shea butter is an incredible ingredient to add to an intense conditioner. Many aspects help moisturize your scalp, and the occlusive ingredients offer a layer of moisturizing to protect...

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Olive oil in hair care products

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Yeah, I know this is a leave in conditioner and I don’t really address this here, but you could think of it as a really liquidy conditioner for the purposes of having a picture in this post…Olive oil is fantastic in hair care products. Sure, you could use it in shampoo, but what’s the point?...

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EDTA – a chelating and sequestering anti-oxidant (updated)

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EDTA (or ethylenediaminetetra acetic acid) is a wonderful polyamino carboxylic acid that has the ability to chelate, sequester, and offer anti-oxidizing properties to our lotions. And we only need to use 0.20% to get maximum benefits in our lotions and surfactant based products! What exactly is a chelating or sequestering ingredient? EDTA binds with metal...

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Conditioner bars – a visual tutorial

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I love conditioner bars, and I thought I’d share this visual tutorial for making them with you while I write some lotion posts! If you want to follow along, please check out the conditioner bar or shaving bar recipes! SOLID CONDITIONER BAR RECIPE60% Incroquat BTMS10% cetyl alcohol (you can use stearic if you want a...

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Shampoo bar – a visual tutorial

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I do love shampoo bars, so I thought I’d make up a visual tutorial to share the love. If you want to follow along, you can use this recipe. This is the recipe I’m using for this batch… MELTY INGREDIENTS 30% SCI flakes 30% SLSa 15% DLS mild 10% Bioterge 804 3% cetyl alcohol 3%...

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