Hi everybody, i am working on my shampoo line and trying to get my formula right. I want to ask if somebody knows of what is usually the amount/percentage of oils in shampoos for volume shampoo? I am using now in my test formula 0.4 % of cocos oil and 0.5 % of jojoba oil!
Thank you,
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if you want to be sure your shampoo will hold together, I'd suggest knocking your oil levels down to 1/10th of what you've got now
Perfumery itself is an entirely different discipline to learn.
Cheers
I am formulating a natural shampoo for curly/dry hair with 3% of oils. I have obtained great results regarding applicability. I am using sugar/coconut based surfactants.
I think the emulsification process will be determinant for the stability of the shampoo.
What is your opinion about using 3% of oils in a shampoo formulation for dry hair?
Thank you
Yes, I am using a cationic guar in the formulation. It is a challenge to formulate products for curly/dry hair. You have to clean the hair and at the same time to avoid to remove the natural oils from them (sebum). I am formulating a new kind of natural shampoo for curly hair. I am going even further until 5% oils content and the results are great. I know that is not so conventional but is something new :-)
The curly hair market is not so researched and I would like to enter with new ideas :-)
I completely understand where you are coming from. I have unprocessed afro-texture hair myself. But at the same time I agree with @Bobz that shampoo should clean. It has me on the fence with my formulations because though I understand the science (mostly), I've been taught to believe that my hair needs special treatment.
Perry posted a while ago that as long you use a good conditioner after shampooing then it doesn't matter what shampoos you used. I tried this on my hair one night to test it. I made a VERY basic shampoo with "the hair killer" SLES and used a good conditioner I had laying around. My hair felt squeaky clean from the shampoo, but felt great after conditioning. So many the wheel doesn't really need to be re-invented for afro-texture hair?
Sodium lauroyl sarcosinate & sodium lauryl sulfoacetate, and i want to ask if i can put : "Sulfate Free" on my bottles?
All the best and STILL working on my formula
:-?Nice topic ?
My ingredients are
SLE
betain
conditioner
NaCL
colour
fragrance
what should Iadd ?
what oil should I put in?Please help me?
betain 10g
CDE 5g
conditioner 10g
glycerin 5g
Nacl 35g for 1liter water
Are these right?
what do I need to put in?
I hope you can help me?
This is new start! I don't understand ,so I ask for help
pls don't ask me if you can't explain
it depends on the percentage at last you can put it in g(or)kg
I hope this group is to help each other.
and they will reduce foam, cleansing ability and viscosity.
If you must add oils for marketing purposes, add them in claim ingredient levels 0.01% or so.
You can try synthetic "water soluble oils" like PEG-7 glyceryl cocoate to see if you like them, although it also reduces foam and viscosity a bit, but nowhere near as bad as vegetable oils do.