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Perry said:

The first thing you are doing wrong is using TOO MANY ingredients!
You have over 40 ingredients! This is way too complicated.

So, first cut out unessential / overlaping ingredients.

For example, you include Polyquaternium 7, Polyquaternium 47, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride & Polyquaternium 39.  Why? They function the same way. There is no need to have both of them.  You only need 1 cationic polymer at most.

Then you have Cetrimonium Chloride, Behentrimonium Chloride, Behentrimonium Methosulfate… These are all cationic surfactants that are all competing for the same sites on the hair. It is useless to have 3 when only 1 is needed.

Then you have oils and butters and all kinds of other things that simply interfere with the working of all the other ingredients.

If you want to create a good product you should start with only essential ingredients.

Water
Cationic Surfactant
Cationic Polymer
Fatty alcohol
Emulsifier
Fragrance
pH adjuster
Preservative

Once you create this formula, see how it performs. If it doesn’t work how you want then add ONE ingredient to see if that makes an improvement. If it works, then add some other ingredient to see if you make it work better. But if adding an ingredient makes no improvement, take it out and try something else.

There is really no reason to have any more than 15 ingredients in a conditioner.

Hi Perry,  Could a solubilizer be used here as well?