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Let’s modify the gorgeous winter hair & scalp hydrating spray full of botanicals and actives to be a lovely dry hair & scalp hydrating conditioner with different preservatives! Click here for part one of this series! You can find the original series in which we made a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of...
Let’s modify the gorgeous winter hair & scalp hydrating spray full of botanicals and actives to be a lovely dry hair & scalp hydrating conditioner! Links to the original series… You can find the original series in which we made a hydrating winter skin & scalp spray with loads of botanicals & actives, which can be...
In the Q&A section, JimmieTF asked, Hi Susan, I came across a “co-wash” product by a brand called “As I Am”, called “Coconut CoWash“. The ingredients are; Aqueous (Water, Aqua Purificada, Purified) Extracts: Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) and Citrus Reticulata (Tangerine)¹, Cetyl Alcohol², Cetrimonium Chloride, Cetearyl Alcohol², PEG-40 Castor Oil, Stearalkonium chloride, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil²,...
Someone asked me why their conditioner bars were soft in the syndet shampoo bar group I admin with Jo-Anne Emery on Facebook, and they shared their variation on my formula in which they’ve included 5% coconut oil and an unknown butter, and I thought I’d expand on what I shared with them over there… Important...
There’s absolutely no need to use both BTMS-25 and BTMS-50 in a conditioner bar as they contain the same ingredients. If you wanted to add cetearyl alcohol to a BTMS-50 formula, just buy it on its own as it’s about 75% cheaper! If we have a formula that’s 60% BTMS-50, we have 30% BTMS and...