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  • SLES, SLS and Coco Betaine Ratio In Shampoo

    Posted by Hamaadali008 on January 13, 2021 at 5:05 pm

    Greetings,
          I have been struggling for quite some time trying to figure out the ratio of sles, sls and coco betaine. But every time i ended up creating a too drying shampoo. No matter what i do my shampoo strips more oil than i would like it to. Please give some suggestions.
    Here are the details of above written chemicals
    SLES 70%
    SLS 100% (Powdered)
    Coco Betaine 30%

    Abdullah replied 3 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
  • 7 Replies
  • Benz3ne

    Member
    January 14, 2021 at 8:38 am

    Provide more detail about what you have tried (e.g. formulation, percentages).
    You have provided essentially no detail other than some chemicals you own.

  • Hamaadali008

    Member
    January 14, 2021 at 9:21 am

    Benz3ne said:

    Provide more detail about what you have tried (e.g. formulation, percentages).
    You have provided essentially no detail other than some chemicals you own.

            Chemicals

      SLES                                6.5%

    SLS                                     3.5%

    Cocamide betaine              10%

     Citric
    Acid                        0.3%

    Guar Hydroxytrimonium Chloride   0.2%


    Polyquarterniumm 7          0.5%

    Titanium dioxide              0.15%

    Dimethicone                        0.275%

    Sodium
    Benzoate
                     0.055%

    Propylene glycol                     0.035%

    Sodium hydroxide                0.05 %

    Sodium Chloride                      0.6%

  • Abdullah

    Member
    January 14, 2021 at 11:05 am

    What is the pH of your Shampoo? 
    These ingredients at these percentages are not drying

  • Abdullah

    Member
    January 14, 2021 at 11:06 am

    My be it is because of your preservative system. 
    This preservative doesn’t look enough for me

  • Hamaadali008

    Member
    January 15, 2021 at 8:51 am

    Abdullah said:

    What is the pH of your Shampoo? 
    These ingredients at these percentages are not drying
    PH of the solution is 5.5 to 6.5

  • Batoul

    Member
    January 28, 2021 at 9:10 am

    I think you need to reduce SLS maybe it would be better if you don’t use it.
    try to increase PQ7 to 0.75%

  • Abdullah

    Member
    January 29, 2021 at 4:12 am

    I haven’t tried Dimethicone, Titanium dioxide and Propylene glycol but the rest i have tried and it is not drying at these ratios for me. 

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