Repair and shine hair mask

There are only a few "natural" and non-quaternary cationic surfactants available on the market and we have two of them available by SkinChakra.

Emulsense HC is available since a few years and it is an amazing conditioner for both rinse-off and leave-on conditioners, for hair masks and even for conditioner bars. To top it and create another "green" & "natural" as well as palm-free cationic surfactant with improved performance, Aminosensyl HC was introduced about a couple of years ago. This cationic surfactant can be used for all the same purposes as Emulsense HC but it has two main advantages over it:

• it doesn't weight down the hair and that makes it a suitable conditioner for heavy and thick as well as fizzy and kinky hair
• it doesn't melt away as fast as Emulsense HC in conditioner bars (that compensates its higher price)

For this tutorial, I have made a simple but effective mask that infuses life and shine to dull and damaged hair. I kept the formulation as simple as possible and even didn't add any fanciful extracts and active ingredients and I suggest you start with a similar simple and basic formulation for the start and then gradually add your extracts and other active ingredients to the formulation.

I didn't use any ingredient to change the pH and the pH at the end was 4,29 which is perfectly OK for a hair mask/conditioner. if you want to achieve a higher pH, add some Arginin from the beginning to the water phase.

Formulation:

Procedure:

1- Blend phase A and B in heat proof containers

2- Heat both phases in a water bath between 75-80 C

3- When both phases have reached the temperature slowly add phase B to A and homogenize

4- Cool down while stirring

5- After the conditioner has reached RT add the preservative and the essential oil

6- prepare a 10% dilution and measure the pH. In our case it was 4,29 and that is perfectly in range

7- Take your stability and micro kit samples and fill the rest in a suitable container

Watch this short video where we show you the texture of the mask.

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