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help, need advice about formulating
Hello, I’m Edward, I want to make natural shampoo. I don’t have a background in knowledge about chemistry but I learned a little about how to make soap like dilute the soap, neutralize the soap, cook the paste, add fragrance
may I ask something?
can I make shampoo ingredients which consist of:-fragrances. -argan oil -rosemary oil -aloe vera -coconut oil -castor oil (superfating) -tocopherol (preservative) -potassium hydroxide (lye) -vegetable glycerin ( thickening) -citric acid (ph buffer) -distilled water
how do we determine the percentase of oil used?
example: 20 ounces of coconut oil, 20 argan oilwhen do we do thickening and superfating? Is it done after the sequester or before?thank you
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4 Replies
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1) ‘Natural’ shampoo is made with ‘natural’ surfactants. 2) Tocopherol is not a preservative! 3) For ‘natural’ surfactants you need a thicker, glycerine is not a thickener.
Take a natural shampoo and look at ingredients list to have an idea what are they made of. -
And before even starting define ‘natural’
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No you cant, shampoo isn’t soap.
I suggest you investigate and learn more before attempting a shampoo formula.
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^^^ What Das said ^^^
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