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Actually, the ingredients are quite simple. Let us take "Pert Plus" as an example. The active cleaners are pretty normal shampoo ingredients: lauryl sulfate and laureth sulfate. The conditioners are fairly normal to: stearyl alcohol, tricetyl ammonium chloride, and dimethicone. The real trick is in stabilizing these ingredients and delivering the conditioners. This is done by forming special emulsions of the ingredients which keep the anionic and cationic ingredients from interacting. Hope this answers your question. greg webb
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