Shampoo Base Creamy (Sulphate & Paraben Free)

Our Creamy Shampoo Base is a ready-to-use, sulphate-free and paraben-free liquid base built for professional hair care product development. It has a rich, opaque, creamy texture with a mild, gentle surfactant system — simply add your choice of extracts, fragrances, and colours to launch premium shampoos, body washes, and conditioning cleansers without any complex chemistry.

Sulphate Free & Paraben Free

Formulated without sulphates (SLES/SLS) or parabens, using mild, skin- and scalp-friendly surfactants. Ideal for clean beauty, natural, and "gentle care" hair care lines that need to carry sulphate-free and paraben-free claims.

Key Specifications

• Form: Creamy viscous liquid
• Appearance: Opaque, pearlescent white to off-white
• Sulphates: None (SLES/SLS free)
• Parabens: None
• Total additive load: Up to 250 ml combined fragrance, extracts, and actives per 1 kg base
• Shelf life: 24 months (unopened, stored below 30°C)
• Pack sizes: 1 kg, 5 kg, 20 kg

Benefits

• Sulphate-free surfactant system — gentle on scalp and hair, won't strip natural oils
• Creamy, rich texture — gives a premium, salon-like feel and lather
• Paraben free — suitable for clean beauty and natural product lines
• Ready to customise — accepts herbal extracts, essential oils, fragrance oils, and conditioning actives without destabilising
• Professional-grade viscosity — pours and fills into bottles cleanly without adjustment
• Suitable for sensitive scalps, colour-treated hair, and daily-use formulations

How to Customize

This is a ready-to-use shampoo base. You may add fragrance, extracts, or actives as required.

Recommended addition: Add up to 250 ml total additives ( extracts) per 1 kg base to maintain proper viscosity and performance. Adding more may reduce thickness and stability.

Important Cautions

• Do not use a blender or high-speed mixer
• Mix gently using a spatula or slow stirrer only
• Do not add water directly — it may thin the base
• Always add ingredients slowly with gentle mixing

How to Use

Measure the required amount of shampoo base into a clean mixing vessel. Add your fragrance, liquid extracts, and liquid colours gradually, stirring gently with a spatula or slow stirrer between each addition to avoid incorporating air bubbles — total additives should not exceed 250 ml per 1 kg base. Do not use a blender or high-speed mixer, and do not add water directly. Fill directly into shampoo bottles or pouches. No heating required for most additions — if adding oil-soluble actives, warm the base gently to 40°C before mixing.

Ingredients:

Aqua, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Decyl Glucoside, Coco-Glucoside, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Polyquaternium-7, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Panthenol, Citric Acid, Sodium Chloride, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin.

Ideal For

Sulphate-free shampoos, gentle conditioning washes, creamy body washes, herbal hair care products, baby-safe formulations, hotel amenity bottles, salon private label products, and D2C clean beauty hair care lines.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What makes this different from a regular (sulphate) shampoo base?
A: This base uses mild, sulphate-free surfactants (sodium cocoyl isethionate, decyl glucoside, coco-glucoside) instead of SLES/SLS. It's gentler on the scalp, less stripping, and better suited to sensitive scalp or colour-treated hair formulations.

Q: Can I use this as a body wash base as well?
A: Yes. The mild, creamy surfactant system works well for both hair and body, and is gentle enough for daily use.

Q: What extracts and actives can I add to this base?
A: Water-soluble extracts work best — bhringraj, amla, hibiscus, neem, shikakai, onion extract, keratin hydrolysate, biotin, or panthenol. Total additives (fragrance, extracts, actives combined) should not exceed 250 ml per 1 kg base. Avoid high proportions of oil-soluble ingredients as they can affect base stability.

Q: Will adding herbal extracts affect the base viscosity?
A: Additions within the 250 ml/kg limit typically have minimal impact. Exceeding this limit may reduce thickness and stability, since water content dilutes the base directly.

Q: How much fragrance should I add?
A: Fragrance is part of the total 250 ml per 1 kg additive allowance, shared with any extracts and actives you use. For daily-use or baby-safe shampoos, use less and stick to cosmetic-grade fragrance oils.

Q: Does this base need additional preservative?
A: The base is pre-preserved. If you add significant water-based extracts or dilute the base, additional preservation (e.g. 0.5–1% phenoxyethanol) is recommended for microbial stability.

Q: How many 200 ml shampoo bottles does 1 kg fill?
A: Approximately 4–5 bottles of 200 ml, depending on your final formulation density.

Q: Is this suitable for colour-treated or chemically processed hair?
A: Yes — the sulphate-free, mild formula is well suited to colour-treated, bleached, or chemically straightened hair, which is more prone to sulphate-related dryness and colour fade.

Q: What is the minimum order quantity?
A: 1 kg. Bulk pricing is available at 5 kg and 20 kg slabs — see variant options above.