Completely cooled deep hair conditioner on my finger.
After making the Simple Daily Hair Conditioner, I started thinking about formulating another conditioner that would work for those who need a little extra conditioning, help with moisture retention and even help detangling! I started by changing the Simple Daily Hair Conditioner formula to include ingredients I thought would be helpful in a deep hair conditioner.
Weighing the Conditioning Emulsifier.
Weighing some of the ingredients to be heated.
Weighing the remaining ingredients to be heated.
Collect needed items:
Recipe: (Makes 3.53 ounces or 100 grams)
Recipe in ounces:
3.35 ounces Water
0.54 ounces Conditioning Emulsifier
0.18 ounces Dimethicone
0.09 ounces Cyclomethicone
0.09 ounces Macadamia Butter
0.09 ounces Wheat Protein
0.05 ounces Jojoba, Colorless
0.05 ounces Horsetail Extract
0.05 ounces Chamomile Extract
0.02 ounces French Lime Blossom Fragrance
0.02 ounces Liquid Germall Plus
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Recipe in grams:
74 grams Water
12 grams Conditioning Emulsifier
4 grams Dimethicone
2 grams Cyclomethicone
2 grams Macadamia Butter
2 grams Wheat Protein
1 gram Jojoba, Colorless
1 gram Horsetail Extract
1 gram Chamomile Extract
0.5 grams French Lime Blossom Fragrance
0.5 grams Liquid Germall Plus
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Recipe in Percentages
74% Water
12% Conditioning Emulsifier
4% Dimethicone
2% Cyclomethicone
2% Macadamia Butter
2% Wheat Protein
1% Jojoba, Colorless
1% Horsetail Extract
1% Chamomile Extract
0.5% French Lime Blossom Fragrance
0.5% Liquid Germall Plus
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Melted ingredients.
Cooling deep hair conditioner.
I would like to hear your opinions about this conditioner! Would you try this?
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I am excited to make some of this — need to order a couple of things first 🙂 My daughter has very fine but EXTREMELY curly hair that tangles really easily and is hard to keep tame. I am always looking for a good conditioner to try! Thank you!
Is there something we could substitute for the Dimethicone and Cyclomethicone?
If you want the same texture as this formulation, then no substitution can be made. If you are ok with a different texture and finish to the hair then you can try coconut oil fractions and jojoba oil for these silicone oils.
Yes, I’m going to have some free time this weekend, and will try this recipe…thank you Andee
Hey, I’m African American and wanted to know how this formula would stack up against the Wen products? I would rather make it myself then to spend the money although it has proven to be a great product.
That is an excellent question. I am not familiar with Wen products and I could not compare. When you make this would you report back? Your insight would be very valuable.
Tina
Andee, for the daily hair conditioner, I see that 3 grams of Argon Oil are used, And one gram of Horsetail Extract. I want to make my own extract and want to steep Horsetail in the Argon oil, lightly heating it of course as to not hurt the Argon Oil, and steep the horsetail herb. So, instead of using 3 grams of Argon oil, could I just use 4 Grams? Meaning, I would use the 3 grams of Argon Oil (but it would have the herb horsetail in it, so now is also an extract) and then when the recipe asks for 1 gram of horsetail, I will just be using one more gram of the Argon oil, that has been infused with the Horsetail…this is how I would get my 4 grams up…so, will that work? I would of course have a more richer intensified horsetail extract in the hair conditioner, but that’s not a bad thing, I do not think…So, what do you think, will that work if I make my own extract this way? But then use that Argon Oil 2 different ways? I will get the extra Argon oil in the hair product, but then I will also get the extra extract in it as well. Yes, I love experimenting.
You can do this. Let me know how it works out for you!
I would like to make a pound size of this 16 oz. how can do that?
Jeaneane,
Easy peasy! You will use our recipe that is listed in percentages. Since one pound is about 454 grams and we want a little extra to make sure you get exactly 1 pound in your finished container let’s make a batch that is 460 grams in size.
460 * 74% = 340.4 grams water (the water is 74% of the finished weight you are making which is 460 grams)
460 * 12% = 55.2 grams Conditioning Emulsifier
460 * 4% = 18.4 grams Dimethicone
Can you see how this is progressing? If you have any questions, just holler!
Tina
Thank You I got it, I am going to add argan oil to this because it helps my natural curly hair, can I omit the wheat protein and I can I replace the horsetail and use Bamboo extract?
Jeaneane,
I like your ideas. I think they will work great! I have naturally straight hair so I feel like I am not a good advisor. Hair is a funny thing, isn’t it? I really like extracts in hair products, they really help hair a lot.
Tina