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We’ve been having fun thinking about how we might duplicate the Perfectly Gentle shampoo from The Honest Company, so let’s keep going! Woo! We’ve obtained a complete ingredient list with INCI names and we’ve analyzed each ingredient. Click here for part one, and click here for part two. What do we have here, then? We have a...
Yesterday, we started our review of the ingredient list for The Honest Company Perfectly Gentle Shampoo. Let’s continue! Water (Aqua), Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropylsulfonate, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Lauryl Glucose Carboxylate, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Extract, Citrus Reticulata (Tangerine) Peel Extract, Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract*, Chamomilla...
In the July duplicating post, Kelley asked, “My very favorite shampoo is Perfectly Gentle from The Honest Company. It is a lower-foaming shampoo that is extremely gentle as advertised. So far it’s the best shampoo to wash my very fine, sort of greasy, long hair almost every day. (And my hair has always looked better...
I’ve been working on this feverishly for weeks, but it’s finally ready: My new e-book, Shampoo bars you will love: Creating pH balanced bars! The write up: This new, special edition of Adventures in Cosmetic Chemistry delves into how to make pH balanced shampoo bars using liquid and powdered surfactants, and all kinds of other...
I’ve just released a special issue of Adventures in Cosmetic Chemistry: Shampoo Bars You Will Love: Creating pH balanced bars. This is not this month’s e-zine; this is a special one I decided to write in light of all the shampoo bar formulas I’m seeing lately that aren’t pH balanced. The write up: This new,...