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  Flaking Hair Gel/Pomade

  Posted by colorier on January 23, 2016 at 7:36 pm

  Hello,

   I have a formula for a gel-pomade as it follows:

  1 aqua: 78.6%

  2 carbomer: 0.7%

  3 sorbitol 4%

  4 pvp 6%

  5 ceteareth-20 8%

  6 cetyl alcohol 0.25%

  7 tea

  8 germaben 1%

  the gel comes out good on shine, texture and hold, but keeps leaving a lot of flaking.

  I have changed the sorbitol for glycerin, and no improvement, 

  any suggestions on what I’m missing?

  or what should I change?

  thank you so much.

  Bobzchemist replied 9 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  crisbaysauli

  Member

  January 25, 2016 at 6:20 am

  Hi @colorier. PVP is what causes the flaking in your formulation. If you want to reduce the flaking, while maintaining the hold and styling capability of PVP, you may try PVP/PA crosspolymer.

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  colorier

  Member

  January 26, 2016 at 6:44 am

  Hello @crisbaysauli, thank you so much for taking time to read and answer my question, should I try to use PVP/PA instead of PVP or along with it?

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  Bobzchemist

  Member

  January 26, 2016 at 3:15 pm

  If you’re serious about optimizing your formula, you should do both, at varying percentages, to determine experimentally what works best for you

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