Surfactants

Sorry for the long delay in posts – has it really been three months? Let’s resume our discussion about designing products as part of a series. Please check out this posts below to read from the start about shampoo! Shampoo – How does it work?Shampoo – What’s in it? SurfactantsShampoo – What’s in it? Other...

When we take a regular or clarifying shampoo and add a conditioning agent or cationic polymer like polyquat 7 or honeyquat to it, we change it into a conditioning shampoo. If you’re using a conditioner after washing, should we bother? Yes! It doesn’t take much to make a great impact – say up to 3% – but it makes a world of difference! Have...

On Friday, we took a look at other ingredients we might use in a shampoo, and these are the ingredients that we would modify or leave out when considering about designing a shampoo to be used in a line with other products. Do we need conditioning agents in a shampoo if we’re using a conditioner...

Yesterday we took a look at how to formulate a shampoo. Today, we’ll take a look at the other ingredients you might add to a shampoo to take it from good to great. In general, a shampoo contains surfactants, water, preservative, and thickener. Each one is a pretty obvious inclusion – the surfactants clean, the water thins the...

In yesterday’s post, Shampoo – how does it work?, we took a look at how a shampoo works to clean our hair. Today, let’s take a look at how one would formulate a shampoo, then at the ingredients we might find in one. So what makes a shampoo a shampoo? We want to formulate a...