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natural shampoo

Posted by filiz on September 28, 2020 at 7:00 am

Hello to everyone

I want to make a shampoo with natural ingredients, but I haven’t worked on this before. I have an equivalent content that I approve of. but I have to reduce the cost a little. I would be glad if you help me in this regard. how should i play in this example? thank you.

aqua
SLES
betain
coco glucoside
polyquertenıum-7
aloe barbadensis leaf juice
equisetum arvense extract
salvia officinalis leaf ext
urtica dioica ext
camellia sinensis leaf ext
arctium lappa root ext
lawsonia inermis ext
vitamin B5
vitamin H
glyceril oleate
nacl
laureth7 citrate
triethanolamine
panthenol
parfum
hyrolized wheat protein
peg90 glyceryl ısostearate
laureth-2
4-dione
edta

Dr_Sara replied 3 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 12 Replies
12 Replies

OldPerry

Member
September 28, 2020 at 12:09 pm

The first thing you have to do is to tell us what you are using as a definition for the term “natural.” If you use my definition (everything that isn’t supernatural is natural) then you’ve already got a natural shampoo.

If you use the definition that natural means the ingredients are produced out in nature, then water and salt may be the only thing in your formula that is natural.

I suspect that your definition is somewhere between those two extremes.
filiz

Member
September 28, 2020 at 1:04 pm

Hi @Perry there will be a formulation study involving sles in which natural extracts are the majority. similar in nature to the above formulation. it’s not a vegan product.
OldPerry

Member
September 28, 2020 at 1:59 pm

Putting extracts in a shampoo at a high level is an inefficient and unproductive way to formulate. If you want a product that performs well, you should minimize the amount of extracts in your formula. They aren’t doing anything and they will only make the product perform worse. If you want to use them for marketing purposes, you can put them in at a low level (0.1% or less) and then talk about them in your marketing.
ngarayeva001

Member
September 28, 2020 at 7:44 pm

TEA, SLES, EDTA.. I wish everyone’s definition of natural looked like that
filiz

Member
September 29, 2020 at 10:31 am

Hi @ngarayeva001

I guess we can define it as containing natural extracts?
Dr_Sara

Member
September 30, 2020 at 2:25 pm

Natural = anything made with the ingredients on Mother Nature’s table; the periodic table
ngarayeva001

Member
September 30, 2020 at 5:54 pm

@Dr_Sara 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
filiz

Member
October 1, 2020 at 7:30 am

Hi @Dr_Sara
aloe barbadensis leaf juice
equisetum arvense extract
salvia officinalis leaf ext
urtica dioica ext
camellia sinensis leaf ext
arctium lappa root ext
lawsonia inermis ext

are these extracts not natural?

I don’t make a natural product when I use this formulation, but can’t I say it contains natural extracts?
Dr_Sara

Member
October 1, 2020 at 8:08 am

Hi @filiz
I think you misunderstood my comment. Natural is impossible to define concretely and everyone has their own definition of what is “natural”.

All of the elements are natural and everything in the universe is made with these ingredients. So at one extreme, everything is natural because it is made with these elements.

Of course, you can say contains natural extracts.

My point is that unless there is a legal definition, natural is open to interpretation
Dr_Sara

Member
October 1, 2020 at 8:11 am

@Perry I do love the idea of “supernatural” cosmetics. What a fantastic buzzword!
filiz

Member
October 1, 2020 at 10:00 am

thank you @Dr_Sara
I think it’s clear to me now …
Dr_Sara

Member
October 1, 2020 at 10:44 am