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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...
If this is the first post you’ve seen on this topic, we’ve been working on it for a while. Here’s the list so far… Making shampoo bars with sodium coco sulfate: Duplication of the Lush Jumping Juniper shampoo bar Surfactants: Sodium coco sulfate or SCS Creating a shampoo bar from scratch: Powdered surfactants Creating a...
So far in this series, we looked at a duplication for Lush’s Jumping Juniper bar; met the sodium coco sulfate (SCS), a powdered surfactant we could use in such a product; reviewed some other powdered surfactants; then reviewed the liquid surfactants. We also took a little side trip to consider how to calculate active surfactant matter. Today, I’d...
Yesterday, we started creating this shampoo bar formula from scratch by looking at the powdered surfactants. Today, we’ll look at the liquid surfactants you can use in this formula. Quite honestly, there may be hundreds of choices for liquid surfactants we could purchase, so the easiest way to make some decisions is to consider our...
Yesterday, we met a new powdered surfactant – sodium coco sulfate or SCS – and used it in a potential duplication for Lush’s Jumping Juniper shampoo bar. In both posts, I mentioned repeatedly that we need to reduce the pH to be more acidic as alkaline products – those over pH 8 – are just...