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  Looking for help making a good hair and body shampoo bar.

  Posted by Dragonturtle on July 24, 2020 at 12:30 am

  Hi all,

  I’m looking into making an all in one sort of shampoo bar. Currently, my shampoo bar recipe is as follows for one bar:

  60 g of Sodium Coco-Sulfate (Surfactant)
  16 g of Cocamidopropyl Betaine (Surfactant)
  15 g of Cetyl Alcohol (Emollient, thickener)
  5 g of Cocoa butter (Emollient, thickener)
  1.5 g of Citric Acid (pH adjuster)
  1 g of Optiphen (Preservative)
  2 g of some sort of fragrance usually Tea Tree Oil

  Also as an extra note, I have very oily skin. If anyone has any ideas for alterations I should make please let me know! 🙂

  Dragonturtle replied 3 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies

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  ozgirl

  Member

  July 24, 2020 at 4:16 am

  What don’t you like about your current bar? It is much easier to make suggestions if you have an issue with your current formulation (e.g. too drying, not enough foam etc).

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  Dragonturtle

  Member

  July 24, 2020 at 11:43 pm

  Thank you for responding. :smiley: To answer your question it could be a little foamier. Friends have told me it can be a little hard to get going and maybe a little more drying for me personally.  

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  Thota

  Member

  July 27, 2020 at 5:33 am

  I would cut cocoa butter a little and increase cetyl alcohol a bit more.

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  Dragonturtle

  Member

  July 27, 2020 at 10:51 pm

  @Thota Thanks! I’ll definitely give that a try. 🙂  

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