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Question: How much cetyl alcohol to use with BTMS-25?

June 19, 2013 by SwiftCraftyMonkey

In this post, Substituting: What to do when you can’t wait to create!, there seems to be some confusion about how to use cetyl alcohol with BTMS-25.Why add a fatty alcohol to a conditioner? They can boost the substantivity of the cationic quaternary compound, which means more conditioning awesomeness for our hair! Fatty alcohols increase…

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