Hair care products

Weekday Wonderings: Can I include slippery elm or MSM in a leave in conditioner?

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In this post, a very light leave in conditioner, Kelly asks: But in this conditioner could we add in slippery elm powder extract and msm powder? Slippery elm and marshmallow root are good to add slip to hair, saw some diy recipes on naturally curly of course they don’t include the honeyquat, preservatives, etc. this question...

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Weekend Wonderings: Do we need to make a complicated shampoo if we’re using a nice conditioner?

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An administrative thing: Subscribing to posts doesn’t seem to work right now, so the easy solution is to make a comment and tick that you want to see follow up comments. Subscribing to the entire blog will not get you any of the comments. This only means you will get each day’s post by email....

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What do you want to know? Creating a setting lotion

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I realized I didn’t address quite a few questions in last year’s post, What do you want to know?, so I thought I’d attempt to answer a few of them here and over the next few weeks. Wendy asked about making a setting lotion. I’m not sure if I can help here, but perhaps we...

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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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Weekend Wonderings: Why are you using willow bark in a rinse off product? Do we need preservatives in our cleaning products? Why doesn’t handmade soap make a good shampoo?

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In this post, Experiments in the workshop: A 3-in-1 that might be good for swimmers, Marg asks: Can you explain your thinking on adding white willow bark extract to your 3 in 1? I love that product, and use it in my aftershave lotion to soothe tiny nicks or scrapes, but not sure if its...

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