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We’ve looked at cream rinses – which are effectively detanglers in rinse-off form – and we’ve looked at leave in conditioners, so let’s take a look at leave-in detanglers suitable for fine hair or children’s hair. The concept is pretty much the same for detanglers as for cream rinses – we want something that contains...
Extracts and hydrosols in your leave-in conditioners can offer anti-inflammatory, anti-irritancy, anti-oxidant, film forming, and moisturizing benefits to an already awesome product! We know our botanical ingredients can have awesome benefits in a rinse-off conditioner – which ones could we choose for a leave-in conditioner? Well, most of them would be suitable – check out...
I love my all natural babassu butter body butter! You can find the recipe here! I received an e-mail last night from someone who notes she is a formulator of mostly natural bath and body products, and that she was writing to me “even though I know you have little love for formulators like me”,...
Okay, so we’ve seen how we can include BTMS-50 and cetrimonium bromide, so why not make a leave in conditioner with Incroquat CR? We’ll be getting more into using Incroquat CR alone in a detangling product shortly, but we can include it in our leave-in conditioners to add more anti-static and softening properties. As with any...
So how can we modify a leave-in conditioner? We looked at the basic recipe yesterday, and we’ve already tweaked this to include oils, so what can we do next? Let’s try using another cationic quaternary compound! Cetrimonium bromide is a great cationic quaternary compound for those of us with damaged hair. Let’s use that as...