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@em88 what do you use? I am not having good thickening with the peg-150 and am struggling to get something that gives a nice thickening effect. got some HEC and wanted to try it today

sven

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November 26, 2018 at 4:11 am in reply to: What’s your favorite Thickener for Shampoo?

@Dustin what was the annoying part for you?

sven

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November 20, 2018 at 10:47 pm in reply to: Should I dilute sulfonic acid before neutralizing it with Sodium hydroxide ?

@Chemist77 interesting that you start with naoh and not with the sulphonic. How do you then neutralise before adding the surfactants?

sven

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November 20, 2018 at 3:27 pm in reply to: What’s your favorite Thickener for Shampoo?

@em88. the carbomer ETD2020 is about 18 usd/kg here. I will get some tomorrow and run a batch to see if i can thicken up the shampoo

sven

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November 20, 2018 at 12:04 pm in reply to: What’s your favorite Thickener for Shampoo?

@globalwidget that is 40 USD a kg and MOQ is 200kgs. Delivery is 6-8 weeks locally :-(

sven

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November 20, 2018 at 8:21 am in reply to: What’s your favorite Thickener for Shampoo?

@em88 that is the million dollar question. we who are stuck in the boondoe’s have to be very creative in sourcing raws at affordable prices and everything for non sulfates are expensive and big MOQ’s. i sometimes wish @Perry would do a good webinar on just this topic

sven

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November 12, 2018 at 6:33 am in reply to: Help making Conditioner with Slippery Elm, BTMS, and Cetyl Alcohol

@avaanstar, would you mind posting your current formula in % . Its easier to see what to do if that is shown

sven

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November 5, 2018 at 6:47 pm in reply to: Hair relaxer production

@Gunther I get around 13

sven

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October 30, 2018 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Hair relaxer production

@Fekher

sven

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October 27, 2018 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Profit margin

@Belassi that’s a high margin.

sven

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October 23, 2018 at 11:06 am in reply to: benzyl benzoate

and it kills scabies big time :-)

sven

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October 22, 2018 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Rosamox to Share

@Nubian. try hexachem.co.za in durban

sven

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October 17, 2018 at 10:07 am in reply to: The RLM45 CA experiment

@Belassi, how did the experiment with the TEA work on the RLM 45CA? I have the fortunate situation to have acquired a couple of 25l drums of this from an Indian supplier and am keen to try some out.

sven

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October 16, 2018 at 2:57 pm in reply to: Treated hair shampoo

@Moka how did the experiment with the CDE go?

sven

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October 8, 2018 at 8:03 pm in reply to: Sulfate-free Shampoo

@dr catherine sarcosinate seems to be my Achilles heel sadly been trying for some time to get the same foam profile with that as i get using my standard LGC sorb + CAPB + Disodium Cocoamphodiacetate.