Designing your products as a line: Shampoo – extracts

There are so many amazing extracts out there for our hair. Should we put them into our shampoo or leave them for conditioners? It’s hard to cover all the possible extracts in one post – heck, it’s hard to cover them all on one blog! – so I’ll go over some general concepts instead of...

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Designing your products as a line: Shampoo – panthenol and other humectants

Again, I admit I’m biased towards panthenol as it’s such a great ingredient for our hair, but do we need it in a shampoo if we’re including it in a conditioner? What does it bring to our hair? It offers moisturizing without oils, it can swell the hair shaft in a good way to moisturize...

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Designing your product as a line: Shampoo – thickeners

A shampoo should have a certain viscosity to it. Not too thick so it won’t come out of the bottle, and not too thin that it spills out like water all over the tub. We want to to be like the porridge that horrible Goldilocks stole from the adorable baby bear – just right. We...

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Designing your products as a line: Shampoo – hydrolyzed proteins and amino acids

I love including hydrolyzed proteins in my shampoo, but is there a point in using it if you’re including  it in your conditioner? I admit that I have a huge weakness when it comes to proteins in my products. I kinda collect them – I’ve used many different ones, including hydrolyzed oat protein, hydrolyzed silk...

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Designing your products as a line: Shampoo – dimethicones

Sorry for the long delay in posts – has it really been three months? Let’s resume our discussion about designing products as part of a series. Please check out this posts below to read from the start about shampoo! Shampoo – How does it work?Shampoo – What’s in it? SurfactantsShampoo – What’s in it? Other...

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