I want this lotion / conditioner to be more watery so I can glop more of it on my head while in the shower. Can I add more water to this formula or do I have to adjust the waxes.
75 grams water
5 g fruit acid
5 g ethanol and extracts blend w fragrance
2 g glycerin
2 g polysorbate 80
2 g cetyl alcohol nf
4 g ewax nf
8 g liquid hot six mist oil (ing. below)
2 g e.o. blend and MCT oil
.50 baobab oil
.50 germall plus in PEG 400 1:2
i made a mixture of the fruit acid, glycerin, e.o. blend, polysorbate, and preservative and added it at cool down.
The lotion hasn't destabilized and it works really well my hair feels really silky and not oily at all, but i just want more of it, and for it to feel more watery, because for me the texture is too thick and like lotion.
Here is the hot 6 mist oil, which has a silicone and isopropyl myristate:
Canola Oil, Isopropyl Myristate, Castor Oil, Sweet Almond Oil, Vitamin
D, Vitamin A, Cyclomethicone, BB Oil complex Eucalyptus Oil, Coconut
Oil, Rosemary Oil, Tea Tree Oil, Camelina Oil, Geranium Oil, (Aloe
Vera), Sheep Sorrell, Sage, Ginseng, Yarrow, Wheat Germ, Slippery Elm
Bark, Henna, Comfrey, Burdock Root, Golden-seal, Cherry Bark, Black
Walnut, Chamomile, Alfalfa, Hyssop, And Fragrance
Any suggestions? I was reading the caffeine / coffee threads....
Comments
I got a theory that most things won't work to condition hair in rinse-off products, unless they are cationic.
Rinse off products are left for such a short time, that they need to be attracted to hair = cationic. Oils and glycerin won't do much for the previously quoted reason.
Sure there are exceptions, like silicones, fatty alcohols. They are a bit conditioning, yet non cationic.