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I suggest you try it and see, then.
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Potassium citrate is not a base, it is a salt.
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ester oils or waxes/jojoba?
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I did consider using FFA’s as part of the oils to reduce the amount of glycerin produced and hopefully limit sweating, but then another problem occurs: the reaction time shortens to the point that no ‘artwork’ can be done, and worse, a high probability of ‘ricing’ due to the lye reacting preferentially with the FFA’s.
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Ethanol, of course… storage of 97% ethanol is not a simple task. The best thing is glass dewars. (Plastics leach into pure ethanol). . . drives down the coast road to the Coca Cola plant. “Can I have some of your leftover glass syrup bottles please?”
Unexpected question: “What do you want them for?”
“Er… well… putting ships in bottles! It’s my hobby!”
(Very skeptical stare.) I see … goes and gets several.
Days later at a party I met an American guy also into ethanol production. “So I went to the Coke plant and asked for empty dewars.”
Me: “Oh really?”
“Yes. And they asked what I wanted them for.”
Me: (laughing) what did you tell them?
“I said I was going to use them for putting ships in bottles.”
Me: (really laughing now) and what did they say to that?
“He didn’t seem to believe me but he gave me them anyway.” -
Not sold in less than 25kg’s which seriously sucks.
It must be very cheap though. I asked for a sample of kaolin and they brought me a 25Kg bag… -
If you raise pH during fermentation, you get a higher degree of fermentation
AHA!! Finally I discover why I was told to add Calgon water softener to my fermentation barrels in Saudi … no don’t ask what I was making. -
I see no-one replied.
FYI there is a very good science-based article on nail varnish and removers today, thanks to Specialchem. -
No, I don’t think so.
I have heard that the market for ‘sulphate free’ products is now declining. I’ve stopped producing our one such product; customers tried our range and discovered that our non-sulphate-free shampoos performed better and cost less. They stopped buying the sulphate-free one.
There are plenty of high foaming sulphate free surfactants without having to use glucosides. I based our formula on AKYPO RLM-45. Excellent foam and very high asm % (something like 80 - 90)… I think it was that as the primary, plus CAPB and sodium cocoamphoacetate.
The downside is that these surfactants do cost a fair bit more than stuff like SLS/SLeS and you also have to use a dedicated thickener. I used Glucamate VLT which is a superb thickener that has preservative and sensorial benefits — but it isn’t cheap.
An alternative: You could try Plantapon LGC Sorb (Sodium Lauryl Glucose Carboxylate (and) Sodium Lauryl Glucoside) — I found that used at about 30% with around 10% of CAPB it made a really good shampoo, however it still requires use of a proper thickener. -
This is why I no longer make cold process soap (or hot process either). The amount of glycerin in the bars makes them sweat whenever the ambient temperature + humidity gets past a certain point. I assume that what’s happening is that the glycerine in the soap absorbs water vapour, then begins to leach out.
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The active ingredients in KATHON™ CG Preservative are isothiazolinones
:'( :#
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Any other general comments about the formulation are welcome.
Frankly it’s a terrible formula in some respects including poor choice of surfactants and if you used a good (anionic) one the conditioner would react with it… -
20% or so.
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IMO selling on ETSY is like negative publicity.
@Pharma, I have made goat milk soap, it is really nice. The procedure is to add the lye to frozen milk so as to keep it as cold as possible and not oxidise it to a horrible brown colour. -
I suggest first, see if you can get hold of some Stepan APB (all purpose blend) which makes a pretty good shampoo merely diluting with water, and will thicken with salt. It’s ALS/ALES based and in my opinion has much better performance than SLS/SLES shampoos. Try that and use it as a reference mark for other creations you might want to try.
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About 0.25%. All EOs affect viscosity.
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sodium benzoate 0.4% should be perfectly adequate provided you keep the pH to not more than 5.
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how can we add coffee in shampoo and what about its stability
Well it’s quite simple, you make coffee and turn it into shampoo. Stability? At least 3 months. Someone keeps using the samples… -
A small % of peppermint EO will give the same sensation.
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There is nothing that works to prevent hair loss but we have had reports back from women who have been able to grow longer hair using our coffee/liquorice/stevia shampoo.
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I recommend trying BASF’s Plantapon LGC Sorb as one component - it’s Ecocert - and you can try alternative secondaries beginning with CAPB. Both are around 30% active so you’d need around 37% total surfactant. For a more conditioning effect you could replace CAPB with BASF’s Dehyton AB.
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All surfactants have their properties and different sensorials. The only way to know what any blend will be like is by making and trying it.
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For instance, ferric chloride reacts to replace copper, producing copper chloride, because the series goes Iron-Tin-Copper. For magnesium and zinc it’s similar, Magnesium-Aluminium-Zinc
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Do you have any literature regarding magnesium chloride (or calcium chloride) reacting with zinc oxide?
If this happened it would produce magnesium oxide + zinc chloride. However … I think it’s impossible, the positions on the electrochemical table imply the reaction can’t move in that direction.