Guest guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Dave wrote: " ... While they're not natural, ... You won't find them in any of my products. ... " That's all I needed to hear, Dave. Thanks again. -- Birdie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 You bet, Birdie! I just got the Rutledge book a week ago. I particularly like the objective way he looks at zillions of ingredients and rips apart claims made by the cosmetics industry. The guy has a bias in favor of natural materials but he is a chemist for a cosmetics company (which he never names), and he obviously doesn’t see everything synthetic as necessarily harmful. I can see where he’s coming from. My wife and I had an ongoing discussion for months over making liquid shampoo instead of the bars we currently make. My argument of “people love the bars, don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” was not prevailing over the idea of a pretty, all-natural herbal shampoo. What won the day was pure logistics: you can’t make it liquid and pretty and appealing and natural and totally consistent without compromising somewhere. First, you gotta have a preservative. If you want it to smell and look the same from batch to batch, you can forget about herbal scents and colors. So you use fragrance oils and mineral colors or FD & S colors, then you need some kind of emulsifier. . .after all that, maybe a little cyclomethicone doesn’t seem so bad. . . Which is why I stay with bars. Dave Dave wrote: " ... While they're not natural, ... You won't find them in any of my products. ... " That's all I needed to hear, Dave. Thanks again. -- Birdie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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