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Shampoo bars: scent retention in hair?
Hello, all. This is really kind of a hail-mary from a home maker/non-seller of cold processed soap and B&B. I started making syndet shampoo bars about a year ago and like using them, but I can’t figure out how to get scent to stick to my hair. The bars themselves smells nice with added fragrance or essential oil, but leave virtually no scent in my clean hair afterwards.
I’ve tried various types of scents, various amounts (up to 2%, I was nervous about going higher), and tried mixing it into other components of the bars (eg, rice flour) to see if that would help the fragrance stick better. No dice.
Maybe this is one of those things that amateurs really can’t address, but I came across the aroma chemicals offered at Perfumer’s World and wondered if those – either by themselves or mixed with FO/EO’s - were likely to help as fixatives. Eg, I like mostly “green/fresh” scents; is it worth experimenting with an AC which is rated as being good in shampoo like hydratropic aldehyde (as an example, I figured there would be a steep and maybe expensive learning curve) or is this too complicated and pointless for someone like me?
Sorry if this is a really irritating question, but I have spent quite a lot of time looking online, here and elsewhere, to see if I could figure it out but didn’t find anything really useful. Thanks in advance for any thoughts, even if just advice that it’s not worth working on it further.
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