Key Considerations In Making Your Own Conditioner. What Should A Good Conditioner Do?

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Our first consideration in making a shampoo was simple: to get an effective cleanser with a secondary goal of making it a little moisturising and conditioning too because our hair is so dry.

With a conditioner there are several primary goals:

• To make our hair softer and more moisturised and to stay that way for as long as possible 
  
• To make it easier to detangle and comb
  
• To reduce shrinkage
  
• To make it easier to style / manage
  
• To make it look and feel better if it's damaged
  
• To make it more shiny although remember that straight hair is naturally more shiny and glossy because of the way light reflect off the strands
  

Less important goals include:

• Improving body / volume, I see that as a white girl problem because volume is not a problem we generally have;
• To reduce static a.k.a. fly away hairs, another white girl problem - I didn't even know what that was until I started researching DIY recipes in early 2013! 

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As I introduce you to ingredients I will tell you how each ingredient helps to further one or several of the above goals. The key ingredients in a conditioner have a positive charge so that they stick to negatively charges hair.


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​You might also like:

• Neno Natural's Free Conditioner Recipes
• What Ingredients Go Into Making A Good Conditioner?
• How Exactly Do Conditioners Work?

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