shampoo

On the lawsuit filed against WEN cleansing conditioners…

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Having serious back pain means loads of time to surf the ‘net. (Way too much time!) In my meanderings, I came across a few interesting things, like this article on the Daily Beast about a class action lawsuit against WEN hair products alleging that their cleansing conditioner made users’ hair fall out or caused permanent...

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Designing your products as a line: Shampoo recipe for oily hair

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Yesterday we modified a dry hair recipe to include fewer ingredients. Let’s look at an oily hair recipe today. We can base it on this recipe for a conditioning shampoo for oily hair that you can find in the hair care section of the blog. CONDITIONING SHAMPOO RECIPE FOR OILY HAIR52% distilled water15% C14-16 olefin...

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Designing your products as a line: Shampoo recipe for dry hair

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As we saw last week (and in August!), we can alter the ingredients in our products when we’re designing a line of things to be used together. If we’re using a conditioner after shampoo, we could make something very basic that contains only surfactants, water, and preservatives that would cleanse our hair, but it wouldn’t...

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Designing your products as a line: Shampoo – a few notes about oils

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I’m asked a lot about including oils in shampoo, and I have to admit I’m not a fan of the idea. It’s not just because I’m an oily haired girl, but because there are a ton of ways of increasing moisturizing and hydrating in a shampoo that isn’t about the hassle of oils. The goal...

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Designing your products as a line: Shampoo – extracts

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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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