hello everybody welcome to my youtube channel this is Ariane Arsenault and today
you are joining me to watch the process of making a new solid shampoo and
conditioner made with Labrador tea glycerine extracts, hydrosol and also
a natural pear fragrance oil. One thing that is a little bit different about
this new line of shampoos and conditioner that I am launching, because
I have other ones than these ones, I also have one with fireweed and honey, one
with chokeberry and blueberry, but today we're just gonna be covering this one.
All of them have in common that they are made with this eco-friendly coconut
derived solid surfactant it's called Iselux SCMI and the real name, because
that's the trade name, is sodium cocoyl methyl isethionate and this is the
sample container that I received. I had quite a bit of a problem getting
this ingredient because no supplier we're carrying it, so in order to get it after
receiving my samples, I had to order a full drum directly from the manufacturer!
So here it is! okay now you saw my drum of Iselux SCMI the reason why I was
really interested in that one it's because not only is it biodegradable
it's also non tested on animals and it is super mild for the skin, for the hair and
for the scalp, so a very good choice. I'm also using SCI as you all know if you
are interested in shampoo you've probably seen this before it's the
sodium Cocoyl isethionate and instead of using BTMS-50 for my conditioning agent I'm
going to be using Danox HC 30 which I'm going to include both in my shampoo
and in my conditioner. I am going to go ahead and put my mask on because working with
dry surfactant when you handle them dry they tend to be a little bit airborne
and irritating to the lungs and I'm also going to be wearing gloves. We are going to
start by measuring the SCI and then I will grind the iselux SCMI and
add it on top, combine all of my dry ingredients and then follow with the wet
portion. Iselux being very coarse and in big chunky flakes I'm gonna grind it
down as I said earlier.
Now I'm going to go ahead and measure and grind my dry Labrador tea.
Cocoa butter and Cetearyl alcohol are going in next. Although using a
conditioning agent is not necessary in a shampoo I really like to include a
conditioning agent so we're gonna go ahead and add the Danox HC 30. Let's add
our wet ingredients now so I'm gonna go ahead and add my bubbles and suds from
Miss Doyles Supplies. Next the hydrosol
the dried Labrador tea leaves
here I have a solution of Labrador tea hydrosol in which I've dissolved a
little bit of citric acid to help lower the pH of this shampo. I'm also going to
use it to disperse and dissolve my Pro vitamin b5. To melt down my surfactants
and my other ingredients I'm using a direct heat method and so we're gonna
stir it by stirring gently so that we don't have any particulates flying
everywhere and I'm gonna stay around and stir very often so that we don't have
anything burning scorching off at the bottom of the container
I'm also heating this on low you could also do this in a double boiler but I
don't have this big of a double boiler for this sized batch I'm using the
direct heat and I'm staying right beside it well we have the shampoo melting
let's start the solid conditioner I'm gonna start with the veneks H 340 which
is our conditioning agent
next goes cocoa butter you got some kokum butter which is a very nourishing
butter it urgings from India and I really like to combine it with cocoa
butter it is very hard so it also helps to hold shape when making conditioners
I'm using sea Phil and CT Aero alcohol as Co emulsifiers and thickeners in this
formula and these are both from Winnie Point soaps and they are our SPO source
supplies let's go pop this in the microwave for 30 second bursts until
everything is completely melted and combined I think I forgot to film this
part or actually I thought it was filming but I wasn't but what I just did
is I added the citric acid and dl Pantanal solution to my mix and i just
stirred it in I'm going to prepare my glycerin it and my natural pear
fragrance so that when this is melted down and off or softened up enough I can
add the correct amount directly into there
the texture is slowly softening up and as I stir the butters and hardener the
surfactants everything is starting to get combined and looking nice while
things are still nothing I'm going to prepare the liquid portion of the
conditioner so I'm using again the Hydra salt which I'm actually including a very
very level and simply to be able to incorporate again I have to dissolve my
pro vitamin b5 it takes a few minutes but it will eventually completely
dissolve and then we'll add the rest of the ingredients here is the solid
conditioner I'm just gonna stir things up a little bit so that the ingredients
melt down evenly back to the conditioner I'm adding the Labrador tea glycerides
the daikon seed extract
and the pair fragrance the conditioner is just about ready there's still some
clumps but there I'm gonna break them up and keep melting and I'll be right back
to add the oils extracts and fragrance
the texture for the solid shampoo is perfect no I'm just gonna let it cool
just a little bit and then I will add my glycerin right in my fragrance oil I
guess you could call this the water phase of the solid conditioner and this
is also one of the reasons why I cure my solid conditioners to give the time to
the water content to evaporate before I package them but because this contains a
conditioning agent which also happens to be a in emulsifying wax well these will
be incorporated in and there won't be any separation happening
it is very intriguing and impressive to see that all of the liquid portion from
the solid conditioner is now completely blended in and you can't tell that it's
there it looks just like melted oils and butters it is now time to pour
I love these silicone molds they are the perfect size for a bar of shampoo or
conditioner they just hold so well in my hand they travel very well they are
compact I got these from candle science they have this model as well as other
shapes and sizes
for ease of pouring I am transferring my solid shampoo into a large measuring cup
now that the solid shampoos and conditioners have been poured I can one
let them harden up on the counter or I can give them a little help by placing
them in the fridge for about an hour I
wanted to show you guys a beautiful lather that this formula creates because
lots of people want to see the lather and they want to know if it actually
lather is if solid shampoo works so this is just water add it to the empty cup
with the leftover of the batch and this is a tropical sea sponge that I got from
Tarpon spring this is hand harvested in Florida and imagine imagine this is your
hair look at the beautiful lather this is amazing it's nice fluffy moisturizing
silky smooth rich lather so yes yes you will have lots of lather with a solid
shampoo well with my solid shampoo at least I can tell you that the solid
shampoos and conditioner are completely firmed up however they will need to cure
for at least a week before we package them so I will go ahead pop them out of
the mold show you the texture and send them downstairs in the drying trays
you
thank you so much for watching this video I hope you've enjoyed the process
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store all of these shampoos and conditioner are a new line and they will
launch shortly they're not available at the time that I'm filming this video but
they will be very soon I hope you've enjoyed learning about new ingredients
such as that isolettes SC mi in the de Knox HC for tea I will leave some links
below but as I said they're not available from many suppliers yet and I
actually had to buy direct from the distributor manufacturer for the isolux
so hopefully if you ask your suppliers about it maybe they'll start carrying it
in the near future so do that ask about it ask your suppliers and maybe we'll
see it more often in supplier stores online stores and so on so thank you so
much for watching if I forgot anything I will leave it in the comment or the
description box below so take care and until next time see you soon