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Sorry for being a day late here, but my pH meter decided to play silly games with me and I couldn’t get it going until last night. I finally made the recipe from the previous post , but I’m not terribly happy with it. I had to reduce the pH pretty substantially, and had to...
Yesterday we took a look at the ingredient list for this shampoo: Today we’ll create a prototype recipe based on the ingredients and how they interact. And tomorrow I’ll share with you how it felt using it in my shower and what I’ll be changing.If you’d like to see more detail about my duplicating process,...
Kirsten suggested that we take a look at Shea Moisture’s Raw Shea Butter Moisture Retention Shampoo as a potential duplication, so I thought we could take a look at the ingredient list to create a prototype recipe we can try. In part one, we’ll analyse the ingredient list to see what makes this product tick....
Let’s try making a version of this with less sticky humectants! It’s not that the original duplication was that sticky – in fact, I was a tad surprised it wasn’t stickier – but I do think we could get a few other humectants in there to make it a super hydrating treat! (Check out the...
As much as I liked the first version of this recipe , I wanted to make a few small changes because I thought a less sticky humectant would be a nice idea. As well, I thought I’d try a version with fractionated coconut oil as the main oil, another with Neossance Hemisqualane (aka C13-15 alkane),...