Need help with Basic Hair Conditioner Formula

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Need help with Basic Hair Conditioner Formula

Posted by akshay on May 12, 2014 at 11:11 am

Hi am Akshay,

I have recently set up a factory for manufacturing Cosmetic & detergent. As am new to this having some trouble with formulation. I am having trouble in thickening this hair conditioning formula and also wanted to know if it’s possible to make this formula in cold process? Cheers

1. Centrimonium Chloride 2.0

2. Lactic Acid 0.7

3. PEG6000 DS 0.5

4. Sodium Sulfate 0.5

5. Sodium Benzoate 1.0

6. Polyquaternium-7 0.2

7. Perfume 0.5

Chemist77 replied 9 years, 12 months ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Ayman

Member
May 12, 2014 at 11:55 am

hi you can add cetyl alcohol by 2%
MakingSkincare

Member
May 12, 2014 at 12:17 pm

You might want to reduce your % of sodium benzoate as 1% is double what is normally used. Sodium benzoate is moderately good against gram+ve bacteria, yeast and moulds, but moderately poor against gram-ve bacteria so you’ll need to add another preservative to cover that.
Chemist77

Member
May 12, 2014 at 12:31 pm

I think he wont need too much of preservative here as cetrimonium chloride itself is a good antimicrobial but i m not sure if that 2% is active or 2% of 30% which is generally sold in the market.
Chemist77

Member
May 12, 2014 at 1:24 pm

@Akshay cetostearyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate se, little LLP or any other light ester oil of your choice, a little of sodium benzoate and around 5-8% of cetrimonium chloride 30%, there u hv a basic working formula. You can add Polyquat 7 and other additives once u get the basic formula right.
akshay

Member
May 13, 2014 at 8:17 am

Hi

Thanks for the help I will try to reduce the amount of Sodium Benzoate to around 0.10 % which I hope should be fine. The problem on my side is the lack of chemicals on the market, for example cetyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate se and cetostearyl alcohol are not available on the market, and to source it from other country would tend to be expensive. Not too sure if the PEG6000 DS is helping with thickening the product either.
Chemist77

Member
May 13, 2014 at 8:43 am

Akshay where are you located?????
akshay

Member
May 13, 2014 at 8:55 am

Am based in Mauritius. Next to Madagascar.
Chemist77

Member
May 13, 2014 at 9:03 am

Oh my, well I suppose then you should try with your PEG 150 DS, try increasing the quantity of PEG 150 DS if at all you dont have access to any other raw material.