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  Shampoo Bar and Tangly Hair

  Posted by cosmeticchick on February 25, 2025 at 4:07 am

  Hi everyone! I’m working on a shampoo bar and trying for a pourable-ish formula. The problem I keep getting is that whist washing my hair gets quite tangly. After washing out it feels fine but personally I think the washing experience isn’t great.

  The formula is

  15% Cetearyl Alcohol
  10% Stearic Acid
  3% BTMS 80
  1% Olive Silicone Alternative
  35% SCI
  10% Cocamidopropyl Betaine
  24% SCS
  0.5% Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride
  0.5% Polyquaternium-10
  1% Preservative

  Could it be the fatty alcohol or stearic acid causing this? The liquid shampoo that I’m comparing it to uses dimethicone but the reason I’m avoiding silicone is that I want to take it camping and want to use ingredients that are biodegradable.

  Thanks so much! On paper it looks good to me but yes, the actual experience of using it is not as great as I hoped. 🙂

  ketchito replied 43 minutes ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  ketchito

  Member

  February 25, 2025 at 6:37 am

  Cetearyl alcohol, stearic acid and BTMS could be impairing your SH performance. Try one sample without them.

  And just as a reference, silicones are not biodegradable, but they do degrade (just not because of bugs).

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