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I love a good case study and have purchased her ph balanced shampoo book recently. They do make a nice shampoo (with a little twist of my own to the them). I ll study oleifin sulfonate a little more, shampoo recipes with it. SCI, CAPB, decyl glucoside? Havnt tried that one yet. Just wondering what will I do with all these samples of shampoo :smiley:
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Meh, using it once was enough to know it’s a terrible idea :smiley: do you ever adjust the ph in your shampoo bars to be more acid regardless of the good ph without adjusting it. I think I need to start my own thread regarding conditioner bars now. There is too much to know!!!
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It could have come from chemophobia, they also tell me soap makes a wonderful shampoo tho. I still have some of my CP shampoo from two years back, used it once :smiley:
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ngarayeva001 Thank you for all your input.
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I ll continue experimenting, tho I might stay clear of oleifin sulfonate. Never used it, but read/hear to many bad things about it. As for lather being worse, I generaly don’t concern myself with it for personal use.
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Oh I am so happy to have found this forum
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Oh and just to add I have a bar with rhassoul clay instead of the slsa plus decyl ‘curring’. My dry scalp does not mind it at all. I am sort-of sceptical but will be trying it on my own head 🙂 so far it’s rock solid, harder then others in fact, no problem with the way it lathers up as well.
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ngarayeva001 noooooooo :smiley: I was afraid you would say something like that, which was in my thoughts all along and the liquids shampoo does work perfectly, those with milder surfacants. I am on a personal quest to making a solid shampoo that work on a dry scalp. What are your thoughts of replacing some of the solid surfacats with something different. I ve seen many products out there with avena sativa, sodium bicarbonate, topioca starch, clays… and what not instead the slsa.
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ngarayeva001 said:I am afraid oil doesn’t do much here. You need gentle surfactants for dry scalp (CAPB for example). Oils in shampoo reduce lather and destabilise the product. They don’t stay on the skin -you simply wash them off. Oils are used as a fairy dust in commercial products at no more than 0.5
While they may end up in the drain and I would agree the shampoo needing a less harsh surfacant for dry hair/scalp. I would question that ‘oil doesn’t do much’. For instance, the super fat in soap makes a huge difference between 0 and 10% and here is where I get confused about the solid shampoo and would love to hear your thoughts, if I double/triple the amount of surfacants, why don’t i increase some of the other ingredients, to ‘soften the blow’ of the surf a can’t, like an oil for instance, well perhaps not essential oils :smiley: that said while I have not notice much difference between 0-10% oil in shampoo on my hair, it seem to make a huge difference on the scalp. That’s the same recipe taking away from CABP. Would love to hear your thoughts.
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ngarayeva001 said:Also, dry hair do not need oil. Oil doesn’t really absorb. You need silicones and cationics. Add 3% of polyquat 7 or polyquat 10 plus dimethicone and it will be a shampoo that makes dry hair look much better.
I agree. For personal use tho, my scalp and I came to a happy with 5.5% oils, but not every oil too. I can only handle three washes and my scalp is dry with no oils 😐
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Decrease liquid surfacants, increase solid surfacants. I would take out stearic acid. You don’t need a preservative.