#alltheingredients: Poly Suga Quat L-1010P (INCI: Polyquaternium 78) with formulas!

This conditioning ingredient profile appeared in its original form in the e-book, Shiny things, volume 3: Things that distracted me, issued in November 2019. This is is the kind of material I share in these e-books – ingredient profiles, emollient profiles, other profiles along with formulas to show you how to use them.  Many are exclusive...

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Myth-understood: Does your hair need time to “adjust” when you start using a shampoo bar? Part three, things to check when using a shampoo bar your hair doesn’t like – creating conditioner bars and some stuff about apple cider vinegar!

Welcome back to this short series where we bust this myth – does you hair need time to adjust when you start using a shampoo bar? As we noted in the first post – no, it doesn’t. A shampoo bar is a pH balanced hair cleansing product that is just like a liquid shampoo and...

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Myth-understood: Does your hair need time to “adjust” when you start using a shampoo bar? Part two, things to check when using a shampoo bar your hair doesn’t like – pH & surfactants

Welcome back to this short series where we bust this myth – does you hair need time to adjust when you start using a shampoo bar? As we noted in the first post – no, it doesn’t. A shampoo bar is a pH balanced hair cleansing product that is just like a liquid shampoo and...

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Myth-understood: Does your hair need time to adjust when you start using a shampoo bar? Part one, comparing liquid and solid shampoo formulas and a few reasons your bar might not be awesome. 

Myth-understood: Does your hair need time to adjust when you start using a shampoo bar? Part one, comparing liquid and solid shampoo formulas and a few reasons your bar might not be awesome. Let’s address the myth that your hair needs to “adjust” when you start using syndet or solid shampoo bar. The short answer...

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Formula round-up: Hair conditioning masks!

On the syndet shampoo bar Facebook group I moderate, someone asked about hair masks, and noted they were getting quite popular, so I thought I’d share some of my favourite formulas from the blog so you can get your hair all lovely and wonderful after being exposed to wind, snow, cold, heat, swimming pools or...

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