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  Sedal formula

  Posted by belassi on October 22, 2016 at 3:59 pm

  My daughter uses this in preference to my own more complicated formula! Perhaps someone would like to suggest starting percentages? I’ve given mine.
  water (approx. 80%)
  cetearyl alcohol (10%?)
  dimethicone (2%?)
  stearamidopropyl dimethylamine (2%?)
  behentrimonium chloride (2%?)
  citric acid (q/s for pH=5)
  (the rest is fragrance, preservatives, and marketing ingredients with practically zero% content)

  and can I substitute cetrimonium chloride for the behentrimonium chloride?

  fletland replied 7 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  johnb

  Member

  October 23, 2016 at 2:45 pm

  Behentrimonium chloride (C22) has much better conditioning properties than cetrimonium chloride (C16).

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  Bill_Toge

  Member

  October 23, 2016 at 8:21 pm

  I’d start with 5% cetearyl alcohol rather than 10, unless it’s incredibly thick

  behentrimonium chloride has a higher melting point than cetrimonium chloride, and it forms more stable emulsions

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  belassi

  Member

  October 23, 2016 at 9:14 pm

  These ingredients are difficult to find here. Except for the cetearyl of course. I have cetrimonium but behentrimonium is only obtainable from Unobtanium Ltd. And the Shercine S, that’s a Lubrizol product but I can’t find it anywhere.

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  fletland

  Member

  March 20, 2017 at 7:04 pm

  belassi in Mexico sells behentrimonium chloride, it cost almost 3 times more than cetrimonium

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