[mikethair]

Thanks for your responses to-date, much appreciated. The first test batch I have done is a 500 gram lot of hair conditioner that has worked out very well, and the responses coming back from testers is all positive….only negative from a few was that EO is perhaps a bit strong.  Anyway, in response to requests for the recipe, her is the hair conditioner. Lets just consider this one for now, and look at the lotion another time.

Heated Water Phase (grams)

Water                                        330.0

Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice      60.0

Hydrolyzed Rice Protein            10.0

Glycerin                                     10.0

Heated Oil Phase (grams)

Cetyl Alcohol                             15.0
Sesame Seed Oil                        7.5
Wheat Germ Oil                          7.5
Jojoba Oil                                    7.5
Rose Hip Oil                                7.5

Cool Down Phase (grams)

Cetrimonium Chloride               10.0
Tocopherol (Vitamin E)                6.0
Nettle Extract                               6.0
Horsetail Extract                          6.0
Phenoxyethanol                           5.0
Benzyl Alcohol                             4.0
Essential Oils                               7.5

[mikethair]

At Indochine Natural we make a liquid soap shampoo……basically saponified vegetable oils…..but we add organic honey which kills it for Vegan. Something similar with  other additives apart from honey will work fine.

I know the “experts” here will probably run down liquid soap as a shampoo, but that fact is it sells very well…..our customers love it…..and now 85% + of our production is OEM/Private label….so it must be doing something right. OK, we are not selling 100,000’s of bottles/day, but orders of 1,000 bottles/month are not uncommon.