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What are the ingredients, first.
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Just to say one thing: I wasted 6 months of my time trying to lower the pH of natural soap, before I realised that I was trying to achieve the impossible.
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Soap is a crystal matrix, how could free NaOH migrate to the surface from inside? I don’t believe it.
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Why don’t you want to use synthetics? It just is not possible to use cold process soap at the pH you desire. Or you can waste the next 6 months and a lot of material proving that… There are many, many synthetics with properties that make saponified soap look primitive. I make cold process soap but I leave it in the state it was intended. When I want performance at a desired pH, I use synthetics.
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What about soap people who neutralise liquid soap with it? Is that safe?
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@Sherman_01 you need to start a new thread.
But basically, unrefined beeswax just lies about the lab all day in a vulgar sort of way. . . -
Generally, no.
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This is one of the reasons we have synthetics.
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Yes I tried it. It was “OK” but not as good as my formulation.
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Highly amusing! I was just putting some peyote balm on my foot this morning. I rather doubt that there’s much peyote in it.
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I tried the Iselux and it does indeed need a high foaming supplement. My existing formulation is high foam and less expensive so I didn’t continue with Iselux. And … it’s from Innospec so, unless you will be buying 55 pound pails?
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I believe the sensorials are the main thing to get right. The foam volume and density, the flow, the fragrance. I make a premium shampoo so I make it more concentrated than the average, that way the customer soon realises they need to use less, so conferring a ‘better value’ effect.
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Just marketing hype. No effect at all. Hair is a dead substance. The only things that affect it are those that increase its moisture content and those that are film-formers. (Apart from straightening and/or colouring systems of course)
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Thank you!
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The first thing to do is list the ingredients in % weight order because I for one am not going to sit here and calculate them all for you.
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We have found no discernible difference between sulphate-free and ‘normal’ shampoo regarding colour protection.
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There was an auction in Mexico City a few months ago in which a complete factory was sold, many many tanks, mixers etc.
I suggest you pay a close eye to publications of auctions etc. -
titanium dioxide
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boric acid is a carcinogen?
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The rose water probably contains phenethyl alcohol as has been pointed out here before now.
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Well, you’re going to have to do what the rest of us do, experiment.
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Clever device, it will need a big roughing-pump.
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It’s the CARBOMER! You cannot get bubbles out of carbomer once they’re in there.
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Thank goodness.
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Yes but we need to know what is in that, why is it a gel, does it for instance have carbomer, or is it just the extract, concentrated.