Hair care products

Weekend Wonderings: Adding sodium chloride to a shampoo? Ingredients for oily hair? (Information on the salt curve!)

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In this post, Conditioning shampoo bars for oily hair, Tracey asked: I’m curious if anyone knows how to go about adding sodium chloride to a shampoo bar? I happened to see Lush does this with one of their bars and my daughter has very oily hair. I’ve made a few different oily hair shampoos that I...

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Weekday Wonderings: Melting point for conditioner bars?

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In this post on solid conditioner bars, Kenzie asks: I was wondering what the melting point of the finished bars are. I am concerned about shipping in the summer. Also, does this recipe need to be put into single molds or would I be able to make a large batch in a soap loaf and cut...

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These are a few of my favourite things: Volumizing complex (updated)

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I’ve been using the Volumizing Complex from the Formulator Sample Shop* in my leave in conditioner for quite a few years, and I won’t make a leave in without it! The INCI for this product is Water & Rice Amino Acids & Lactobacillus/Date Fruit Ferment Extract & Polyperfluoroethoxymethoxy Difluorethyl PEG Phosphate. The rice amino acids will...

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Weekend Wonderings: Why use three surfactant blends in products?

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In this post, Surfactants: A conditioning shampoo with SCI for normal to oily hair, Fatima asks: Can you tell me why another surfactant is needed? Wouldn’t this work perfectly fine with just the two? Great question! We use different surfactants blended together because each brings something different to the mix. Take a look at decyl...

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What hair type do you have?

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Do you have oily hair? Dry? Normal? How do you know? If you have to wash your hair every day or every other day because of oil build up, you have oily hair. If you wash your hair with a very mild shampoo and you still feel you have an oily scalp, you have oily hair....

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