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Wow, you’ve all been very active on the blog this week! I had a seriously busy day yesterday – Raymond and I played our recital and it was awesome! – and I have a busy day today, too, so I only have time for this adminstrative post…. I need to make this abundantly clear –...
As we discovered yesterday, we can make a conditioner with only a few ingredients – the cationic emulsifier like Incroquat BTMS-50, water, and a preservative. We can make it a little more substantive and emollient by adding a fatty alcohol like cetyl alcohol. Let’s take a look at another conditioner recipe (taken from this post)!...
A conditioner, by definition, contains a positively charged ingredient that will adsorb to your hair strand to increase lubricity, decrease friction, decrease fly-aways, and increase combability. These positively charged ingredients include Incroquat BTMS-50, Incroquat CR, Incroquat BTMS-25 or Rita BTMS-225, cetrimonium bromide, cetrimonium chloride, and so on. This main ingredient is generally an emulsifier, meaning...
This same person who asked if we could make an easier moisturizer, which we looked at yesterday, asked if we could make a moisturizer more natural. I hate to do it, but before we start, I must ask the question – what does it mean to be natural? I’m going to be honest here and...
Someone asked me if I could offer information on making easier moisturizers. The first step is to understand why we are using what we’re using in a product. What’s important in a lotion? Let’s a take a look at basic recipe, which I’ve taken from this Newbie Tuesday post. BASIC FIRST LOTION RECIPEHEATED WATER PHASE68%...