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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...
I found this ingredient at Lotioncrafter, NatraSmooth™ (INCI: Water, Tremella Fuciformis Sporocarp (Snow Mushroom) Extract, Betaine, Glycerin), a nicely gelled liquid derived from snow mushroom (also called silver ear mushroom) as an anti-oxidant that works as an amazing humectant and skin and hair conditioner. It binds water to the skin and hair to work as...