conditioners

These are a few of my favourite things: Dimethicone in hair care products

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Dimethicone is a great addition in any hair care product as it offers conditioning, film forming, and de-frizzing. It increases hair’s softness and shine. You can use it in shampoo, conditioner, leave-in conditioner, cream rinse, or anti-frizz sprays. The easiest recipe I make is this one for an anti-frizz spray. ANTI-FRIZZ SPRAY90% cyclomethicone10% dimethicone Weigh...

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A few thoughts about conditioners for an extremely warm Monday in February…

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If you are making rinse off or leave in conditioners, you want to use an emulsifier that is positively charged or cationic. This means using ingredients like Polawax, polysorbate 20, PEG-40 hydrogenated castor oil or Caprol Micro Express as the main ingredient isn’t the best idea. Why? We use positively charged or cationic ingredients in...

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What’s important in a conditioner? Part two…

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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)!...

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What’s important in a conditioner? Part one…

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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...

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Experiments in the workshop: Leave in conditioner with kera straightening and lycopene bioferment (updated)

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I love leave in conditioners! They offer so much wonderful awesomeness to your hair with low levels of ingredients. Where to start making a leave in conditioner? As usual, think about your goals? What do you want in this product? That answer will help you move in the right direction! I have oily, frizzy hair...

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