Hair care products

Q&A: Is cetrimonium chloride necessary for a conditioner? How can I make one that’s more natural? Part one

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In this post, leave in conditioner – where you can find my base formula and a modification for this product – Olga asks, I am in the process of creating a leave in conditioner, I am using sucrose Stearate. I’ve learned that it’s amazing in leave- in conditioners but I’d love to hear your input...

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Q&A: Can we add oil soluble botanical extracts to conditioner bars? Part two, modifying conditioner bars to include extracts (with formulas)

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Welcome back to this short series. You can find part one by clicking this link! Let’s modify my husband’s favourite conditioner bar turned shaving bar, the super silky & smoothing babassu, jojoba & carrot tissue shaving or body conditioning bar! Instructions for making these conditioner/shaving bars can be found in this post… You can see...

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Q&A: Can we add oil soluble botanical extracts to conditioner bars? Part one, determining the charge of a botanical extract

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In this post, Weekend Wonderings: All about conditioner bars, Rick asks, I have been reading through the “Conditioner bars you will love” book and am thinking about adding some “botanical extracts” to see if they improve the bars. Here’s my first questions: 1) How do you tell if an extract (or any ingredient, for that...

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Q&A: Is it safe to use 60% BTMS-25 or BTMS-50 in a conditioner bar? What are the suggested usage rates?

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In this post – Q&A about conditioner bars! – Sarah asked, Hi Susan, thank you for all of this incredible info! I’ve noticed that the suggested usage rate for both BTMS 25 and 50 is up to 10%, but in many of your conditioner bar formulas you are using them up to 60% (and have...

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Let’s create a gorgeous dry hair & scalp hydrating conditioner using BTMS-50 with loads of botanicals and actives (includes formula)

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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 that uses BTMS-50 as the cationic emulsifier! We made a decadent version of this conditioner in a parts one and two of a series I shared last week: Today, let’s...

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