Guide to Creating a Black Hair Coloring Conditioner

Thank you for your inquiry. While a precise, ready-to-use formula with exact percentages cannot be provided, I can offer guidance on the types of ingredients needed and suggest relevant products available, along with their recommended usage rates where possible.

To create a black hair coloring conditioner, you will primarily need a conditioning base and a suitable black hair colorant.

1. Conditioning Base Ingredients

These ingredients provide the conditioning properties of the product. You can choose one or a combination of conditioning agents.

• Silicone Hi-Cond: A liquid silicone that helps make hair soft, smooth, and prevents tangling. Recommended usage rate in conditioner is 1.5-3%.
• Hair-Cond™ 0949: A cationic silicone emulsion that serves as an excellent conditioning additive. Recommended usage level in conditioners is 5%.

2. Black Colorant Ingredients

These provide the black color. The choice depends on the desired intensity and type of color (semi-permanent).

• SemiColor - Wood Black (semi-permanent hair color, black): This is a powder colorant suitable for conditioner formulas. It's noted to give better and faster results in conditioner than in shampoo. It's important to avoid anionic surfactants and salts/electrolytes in the formula when using this colorant. The suggested usage rate is 0.1-1.0% (recommend 0.2% to avoid staining).
• Semi-Permanent Hair Colorant (Natural Black): This is a liquid colorant designed for use with a specific semi-permanent hair color shampoo base, typically mixed at 10% colorant to 90% base. While designed for a shampoo base, it represents a liquid colorant option that might be adaptable.

3. Color Enhancer

An ingredient to help the color adhere better to the hair.

• ColorFix™ (helps hair color stick better): Recommended for use with SemiColor to help the color stick better and last longer. Suggested usage rate is 5% for conditioner or hair color treatment.

Putting it Together

To formulate your conditioner, you would typically combine a conditioning base (using ingredients like Silicone Hi-Cond or Hair-Cond™ 0949) with your chosen black colorant (like SemiColor - Wood Black or potentially adapting a liquid colorant) and potentially include ColorFix™ to improve color adherence.

Please note that creating a stable and effective formulation requires careful consideration of ingredient compatibility, pH adjustment (SemiColor works better at higher alkaline pH, around 9, but not above 9), and extensive testing to achieve the desired color result and product stability. It is recommended to start with small test batches.

By selecting the appropriate conditioning agents and black colorant from the suggested products, you can begin experimenting with your own hair coloring conditioner formulation.