[Chemist77]

Opulyn 301, will give you good opacity. Buttermilk is what you will have instead of yogurt

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Agreed on that persistent aeration,  rather go by john’s suggestion. If you have hot process, EGDS & cocomonoethanolamide gives a very beautiful pearlizing effect. Around 1.5% of each approximately. 

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Kathon CG is recommended 0.1% maximum so stick to that. You can buy yogurt but to eat and use surfactants in the formula as suggested by others here. 

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Check Dettol shower gel,  they have suspended polyethylene terephthalate using Aqua SF2. Works well and stay suspended. 

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Yeah I have a very thick product which you have to scoop with your fingers and it has a melting point. So you see it is indeed hard. 

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Is it a clear product, how hard you want the product to be? I have a similar product which is pretty stable at 45C and I just got rid of PEG-8 Beeswax without any problems. More so I got a better clarity, if you are looking to add PVP or any similar polymer then be ready to compromise with clarity. Can be anything from translucent to opaque white. 

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I noticed your formula doesn’t add up to anything,  how did you arrive at those percentages. BTMS is 28g which turns out to be 5%, posting a correct formula will help you get a more specific reply. 
Cut down slightly on BTMS, and cut down by 80% your panthenol. Can play around with Aloe vera gel as you desire.  

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For me EWG translates into ‘Explanations Without Grounds’, never took them as part of the industry anyway. 

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Belassi are you sure it is 500cst as I have never come across that one. From 0.5 to 1 million I have used till now but never 500cst. As for mixing they are freely miscible and you can mix in any ratio till you reach the desired properties. 

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Won’t be worlds apart, surely you can give it a try since it’s just a difference in ethoxylation only. 

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@Belassi with all that perfection that will be a hot cake in my region,  period. 

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@Perry your take on such ads here which is basically a non commercial forum? 

[Chemist77]

@Belassi in my region,  the claims are absolutely outrageous. You will be aghast if you read any of those claims on a product which is just a non-ionic concoction of few fatty alcohols and paraffin liquid. 

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You could add some mica for pearlizing,  though very impressive ratios you got there.  It is a great feeling once the products start doing well. 

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Certain products from CLR Berlin show quasi drug usage,  surely it is based on certain studies I suppose.  

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Yeah CETAC is indeed a nice and cheap detangler,  how about just adding coffee in a cationic formula and omitting licorice.  Should work if it works so nicely in your shampoo. 

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I concur with you then,  better use the salt you mentioned above. Could not think of any other conditioner which is either non-ionic or can tolerate the anionics. Polyquat H81 was mentioned by you once,  won’t work here? 

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How about the non-ionic one I mentioned above, SAPDA??

[Chemist77]

To the original formula with cationics?

[Chemist77]

Stearamidopropyl dimethylamine and some polyquat 10, skip the usual cationics here.  Polyquat 10 is cationic but u know it can be used if added at a certain step. And of course a combo of oils and silicones,  i m sure u know that much better.  And remember u always mentioned one pseudo cationic polyquat H81,  maybe it can help here. 

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@Bill_Toge absolutely brilliant explain,  was having an issue with my hypochlorite product. Now i have 2 variables,  head space and viscosity to consider.  Thank you again for such a brilliant insight. 

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Dow is the supplier for Polyox water soluble resins and which come in different molecular weights. Check for your local Dow distributor. 

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Not sure of the equivalent but have you thought about pine oil in the formula???

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That gotta be the worst copying I have seen of an LOI, don’t trust a single word of it please. As @johnb pointed out, how can a water based pomade be without water in LOI. And Kaolin among other things, that says a lot about the gravity of imperfection here. 

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@ashish It will form a clear emulsion provided he gets rid of all that extra stuff and which he is trying to copy. I have a very clear product with just the ethoxylate, MPG, glycerin, PEG-8 Beeswax and Polysorbate-20. PVP K90 can interfere with the refractive index and hence needs to be added in an optimum dosage say around 0.25-0.5%. This of course is in context to my clear formula.