shampoo

Weekday Wonderings: Can we make a shampoo bar without cocamidopropyl betaine?

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In this post on shampoo bars, Bella asked: Is it ok to make a syndet shampoo bar without cocamidopropyl betaine? Everyone makes it seem like an impossibility, but there is a company that makes them and they are sellilng very well and I don’t see that ingredient in their product. The company is Ethique, here...

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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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Weekend Wonderings: How to include an oil soluble ingredient in a surfactant based product, like a shampoo?

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In this post, Creating a daily use shampoo, longqtruong asks, You have dimethicone in your daily shampoo formula which is not water soluble. Do we need a solubilizer or emulsion system to make this work? The short answer is probably not. The longer answer is as follows… You’re right: The forms of dimethicone I’ve been...

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One ingredient, five products: Stearic acid – shampoo bar

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I love shampoo bars. I think they may be my favourite product I make. Don’t get me wrong! I love my lotions and potions and body washes and everything else, but the thing that changed the way I see my hair and making things was this shampoo bar. I didn’t create this bar from scratch....

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Making a clarifying shampoo for oily hair

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A very long time ago – okay, it was December 6, 2015, but that’s practically a lifetime on the ‘net – I ended a series on designing your shampoo as part of a line of hair care products. To continue that series for this post, I wanted to share with you my new clarifying shampoo...

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