{"id":796,"date":"2024-03-22T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=796"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:55:55","slug":"l-arginine-conditioner-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"L-Arginine conditioner, continued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ran out of the previous batch that I made (50g). Findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spreading in hair instead of on brush first works, not sure if it&#8217;s more even but it feels like I have more control how much I put where<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Putting more on front locks helps with frizz &#8211; that&#8217;s the part of my hair that gets frizzy e.g. from being wind blown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Still figuring out exactly how much to put where, but in any case my day 3 hair is less frizzy and more curly than my day 1 hair used to be<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Putting a little too much in will give a bit of a gel cast feel, it does scrunch out a little bit. I don&#8217;t like it on day 1 but it gives great day 2 hair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>New batch. Same as before, but with Xanthan gum added to hopefully thicken it more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>6g L-Arginine HCl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>69g conditioner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3 drops (~0.2%) essential oil<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>0.15g (0.2%) Xanthan gum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It didn&#8217;t really thicken it up much. Maybe I didn&#8217;t use enough, or maybe Xanthan gum doesn&#8217;t work very well any more 10 years after its manufacturing date. To be honest the creme was a nice consistency already without it so I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll use it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran out of the previous batch that I made (50g). Findings: New batch. Same as before, but with Xanthan gum added to hopefully thicken it more. It didn&#8217;t really thicken it up much. Maybe I didn&#8217;t use enough, or maybe Xanthan gum doesn&#8217;t work very well any more 10 years after its manufacturing date. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conditioner","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}