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Welcome back to this four part series in which we’re making a shampoo filled with a veritable botanical bounty of fantastic ingredients for normal to oily hair! In part one, Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants!, we looked at what it meant to...
Welcome back to this four part series in which we’re making a shampoo filled with a veritable botanical bounty of fantastic ingredients for normal to oily hair! In part one, Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants!, we looked at what it meant to...
Welcome back to this four part series in which we’re making a shampoo filled with a veritable botanical bounty of fantastic ingredients for normal to oily hair! In part one, Creating a blueberry, carob, yucca & cornsilk conditioning shampoo for oily hair (part one): Overview and choosing surfactants!, we looked at what it meant to...
You all know I’m a huge fan of shampoo bars – click here for my enormous post on shampoo bars that’ll help you navigate all the materials I have on these – but sometimes I like a nice liquid shampoo I can take to my hairdresser that won’t be as super bubbly, foamy, lathery™ and...
One of the very first products I made was a shampoo to help with my very oily hair, and I fell in love with making hair care products at that moment. I’ve made so many in the last 14 years, and here they are! You’ll see the e-books I’ve written on the topic at the...