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Cetrimonium Chloride in Shampoo Formulation
Dear all,
After few weeks trying to make my shampoo formulation into easy wet and dry combing, i did try Croda and even Cetiol, but the best in term of cost is just using 3% of Cetrimonium Chloride. But when i find out Cetrimonium is Cationic and not suggested to use with shampoo, but for hair conditioner.
So my question is it normal to make 3 in 1 shampoo and i put Cetrominium Chloride to be one of my formulation? That not funny to add Cationic into Anionic formulation ?
Please advice. Thank you so much
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4 Replies
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Not normal to use quat in shampoo due to incompatible charge effects with anionics. Better to use a cationic polymer such as cationic guar if you can source it.
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Yeah, cetrimonium chloride is not useful in a shampoo, especially at such a high level. You might sometimes see it as a part of a blend of surfactants but it is not commonly included nor is it added for a conditioning effect in a shampoo.
2 in 1s are made using silicones as the conditioning ingredient.
3 in 1s are not really a thing (just a marketing story).
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You can use something like Guar Hydroxypropyl Trimoniumchloride or a Polyquaternium (-7 for example).
This will help condition your hair and won’t cause stability issues in presence of anionic surfactant. -
Polyquaterniums and or guar derivatives would make better job for conditioning. this would be further strengthened with silicones addition.
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