u/Designer-Honeydew-66

I made a sulfonate and betaine shampoo for curly hair but it did not thicken enough with sodium chloride. I would like to thicken it without affecting its performance if possible.

Aqua q.s

Disodium EDTA 0.2%
Guar HPTC 0.3%
Glycerin 1%
AOS powder 92% 5.5%
CAPB 45% 13%

Pq7 10% 2%
PEG7 GC 3%
Sweet almond oil 0.2%
Fragrance 0.6%
Euxyl PE9010 1%
Aloe vera extract 0.1%

Target pH: 5-5.5

EDIT I tried adding 0.3% guar gum and I did not notice any difference

Is 18% good or too much? I will be using 15% aos powder 92 and 10% capb 45

Full formula percentages:

Aqua

Cationic guar 0.8

Glycerin 3

Disodium edta 0.2

Aos 15

Capb 10

Peg40 hco 4

Sweet almond oil 0.5

Fragrance 0.5

Euxyl pe9010 1

I made 1kg of lotion and it was good until I added the preservative (euxyl pe9010) premixed with glycerin cz I read somewhere that blending them that way and adding them slowly to the mixture would reduce the chance of destabilization. However the opposite happened with me.

It has been 48 hours since I made the lotion. Is it fixable?

I tried the following formula but it is too liquidy. Is there a way to make it thicker without weighing down the hair?

Aqua q.s

HEC 200k 0.5%

Glycerin 1%

Cetrimonium chloride 30% 0.3% (the minimum recommended usage by the supplier is 1%, but at this concentration it irritated my sister's scalp, maybe it is expired??)

Disodium EDTA 0.2%

Cetearyl alcohol 1%

Arlacel 165 1%

BTMS 50 1.5%

BHT 0.05%

Fragrance 0.4%

DMDM hydantoin 0.6%

I want to make a sun tanning dry oil without spf and would like to have feedbacks about this formula:

Coconut oil 33%

Sunflower oil 20%

Carrot oil (carrier) 20%

IPM 10%

Sweet almond oil 7%

Dimethicone 5%

Lanolin oil 3%

Shea butter 1%

Jojoba oil 1%

Aloe vera extract 0.1%

BHT 0.1%

I made 100g hand cream out of which 96.7g of ingredients was subjected to heat and the rest added during the cool down phase. In order to see how much water I lost for evaporation I calculated the total ingredient weight before heating and after the batch cooled down, and the difference between the former and the latter was 14.35g. Is that normal? 14.35 is around 15% of 96.7...

Last friday I didn't sleep all night as I was in the hospital with a relative who had an accident, and couldn't have any full night of sleep since saturday. I sleep from 11pm-12am to 4 am then sleep again from around 4.30 to 6.30 am. My body wakes up automatically when daylight comes. I feel less energetic as ususal and depressed. Any help will be appreciated!