Rose Leave-in Conditioner

I am crazy for conditioners! Since it was the first recipe I successfuly reproduced (still using that one and loving getting out of the shower feeling my hair soft!) this area has been a special interest of mine from the beginning.

Beautiful looking and effective!

As with skin care, hair products are very personal and what may work for me may not work for somebody else. My hair is strong, thick and treated (so quite damaged, especially the ends!) I shave a side cause I cannot stand the heat on my head and still after shaving it I do have lots of hair that tends to be dry and frizzy (but... at the same time, becomes oily easily and impossible to manage so I do daily shower, especially in the summer!). Some of my friends with light thin straight hair do not even use conditioner! So keep that in mind!

In the summer, between wearing my hair in a bun and going to the sea, I cannot survive without some added help. I've tried oils and creams for combing (I guess they would be leave-in conditioner!?) but I haven't yet found something that would leave my hair soft, shinny and manageable (I am not expecting a product to fix my split ends miracolously or make the colony of gray hair on my head dissapear!).

So, seems obvious something I was excited to try was a leave-in conditioner. And.... I love it! I want to make it even more conditioning by adding a few more things (weekend project) but as a start, and maybe as a product for other types of hair, is a great success!

If you want to see the original recipe I got it from here: Humblebee & Me - as you can see there Marie calls is a 'lightweight conditioner'. As a start for me is ok, but I will be adding some stuff to it!

Let's get to it!

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Phase A

Water 36,75

Rose Hydrozol 50

Panthenol 2

Cetrimonium Chloride 30% solution 2

Sodium Lactate 2

Phase B

BTMS-50 2

Argan oil (I used sweet almond oil) 2

Phase C

Fraganze 0,75 (apart from the perfume of the hydrozol I used a floery fraganze)

Hydrolized proteine 2

Preservative 0,5

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The oil base in this recipe is very low (I will be increasing that in the future).

First of all we are going to prepare Phase A by adding the ingredients in a becker.

On a second becker (which is the main one cause we are adding the water phase into the oils) we put the emulsifier and the oil.

Take both beckers and heat up in a double boiler till 70 degrees. When both are at temeprature, add Phase A into Phase B and use a stick blender to emulsify. It will become white quite quickly. To avoid unwanted bubbles, don't let air get into the head of the blender: immerse it till it's all covered and then move a bit so the air trapped can come up. Then blend.

Now it's time to cool down our conditioner. A good way to do it, which I've learnt to like is to do a cold bath. Put the becker in a bowl with cold water and keep mising until it's at 40/45 degrees. Then take out of the bath and keep mixing till the temperature drops a bit more (doing it without the cold bath would mean I have to keep mixing -with a spoon- till the temperature is down.... which would be a long time!).

When we are at less than 40 degrees we can add Phase C. Remember to mix after each addition.

The final consistency of this leave-in conditioner is quite liquidy, so a bottle with a pump is a good idea.

How to use this conditioner?

After a shower, I let my hair dry naturaly and then add a bit of this product. It's not necessary a lot of it. I tend to comb it after I add it (as well as after the shower!).

I have tried it also at the beach, I hate the state of my hair when coming out of the sea so all I do is use a bit of this product on all my lenght -when the hair is wet- and then comb. It feels soft, manageable and the colour seems brighter!