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  Does quats and oils in a hair treatment/mask get rinsed away under shower?

  Posted by Unknown Member on September 11, 2024 at 4:33 am

  I want to know the exact science happening behinds hair mask rinsing…

  A) the micelles (surfactant/ emulsifier trapping the oil phase, while all the water phase has either penetrated the cuticle or have evaporated) are there and just releasing oil to the cuticle in a timely fashion and when rinsed the water soluble micelles have no problem detaching itself from the cuticles.

  OR

  B) micelles are not there and all of the micelles have deformed and released oil on cuticle and while rinsing, because there is no micelle formation taking place (unless I am using fingers to move around the surfactant to gather and form rinsable micelles, which we usually do while shampooing but not with hair masks/ con) water soluble surfactants will probably detach itself from the oils under the force of water and get rinsed away (I presume this is what happens with quats right?) If this happens then oils would be left behind on the hair like quats though…

  • This discussion was modified 3 months ago by  Perry44.

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