Update 12/10/2016: Mixed Chicks Deep Conditioner is marketed as a deep conditioner, but if you check out the ingredients and compare them with all the other conditioners, they are basically the same. This is a thicker product, but I’m assuming it’s thicker because they put less water in there. This is almost a whipped […]
I’d thought I’d brought this shampoo from Louisville my last visit so I could review it, but for the life of me I couldn’t find it here. Then I went to my mom’s this past week, and there is was. I was trying to pack it in my suitcase to bring back this time, but […]
Oh my gosh there are a lot of things I don’t like to see in a product in these. First I see TEA-Dodecylbenzenesulfonate in both the Dove Quench Absolute Shampoo on the left, and Dove Regenerative Nourishment Shampoo on the right. This is a very drying cleanser that’s known to even strip color out of colored and natural hair. […]
Update 12/1/2016: This combed pretty well, but seemed a bit too stiff if I had extra tangled hair. It clumped very well, nice and firm curls which would make this a good conditioner for extra control if that was something you were looking for. It seemed to do fine throughout the week I used […]
Update 10/16/2016: So a week’s gone by after using this conditioner. I wasn’t thrilled with it, and to be honest, when I went to comb my hair again after the trial week was over, it seemed like my hair was more tangled. However, I’d been gardening in the rain and getting my hair caught in lots […]
I got a text from my mom that she was really liking the Shea Moisture shampoo and conditioner I’d recommended to her when I was visiting her in Louisville this summer. But she said she had to stop using the Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie because it was really drying […]
When I was at Sally’s Beauty Supply lurking among the products, one of the friendly sales people recommended this product for curly hair. She said she had many customers swear by it. So of course I took pictures of it to check out the ingredients to see if I could recommend it. Well, it […]
Miss Jessie’s Multicultural Curls Lotion is appealing because it’s marketed towards those of us mixies out there. But I was really sad to turn it around to look at the ingredients and see that it contains alcohol. Alcohol is very drying, and there are a bunch […]
Both the Dove Quench Absolute Conditioner and Dove Regenerative Nourishment Conditioner have very similar ingredients, and also have the same reason I’m not recommending them. Four lines down for the right conditioner and five lines down for the Regenerative Nourishment conditioner, they both of them have potassium chloride, which is a salt. It’s sort of okay (but […]
I visited my old friend Frizz Ease in the store today, always keeping an eye out for products (especially conditioners) to try. So I checked out Frizz Ease and saw to my unhappiness it now has sodium hydroxide in it (check out the right ingredient photo, near the bottom). I know […]
I only had to spend about five seconds (maybe less) scanning over the ingredients of Suave Sleek Conditioner before potassium chloride popped out at me and I quickly put this bottle back on the shelf. Potassium chloride is a salt, most likely put there as a cheap thickener, but salt is corrosive and drying. It’s too bad, […]
Update 10/16/2016: I wanted to try this product, to the point I even bought it. In fact, I’d even skimmed over the ingredients in the store before I bought it. And I missed it. The first ingredient. Mango fruit extract. Mango fruit is really acidic. I once used a conditioner with acidic ingredients like citrus and […]
Product Summary: This is a gentle shampoo. However, for some reason, it always tastes like I got perfume sprayed in my mouth after using it, so I don’t reach for it as often as I could for only that reason. Update 9/17/2016: I’ve used this shampoo twice now and I do like it. It has […]
This is another product that all I had to do was turn the bottle over in the store and quickly scan over the ingredients to know this was a no go. At the end of the third line is potassium hydroxide, a very alkaline ingredient much like sodium hydroxide, a major component in relaxers. I’m sure […]
I’m not as picky about shampoos as I am about combing conditioners (since combing conditioners have so many roles to fill in your hair, while shampoos get rinsed out), but still…. Just glancing at the ingredients list in the store of this shampoo, sodium hydroxide jumped out at me first. That’s what’s used in relaxers. Now I […]
Update 10/4/2016: I’ve used this shampoo twice now and like it just fine. This would be good in summer, or when you need slightly more cleansing, but you still want something more gentle. Update 9/24/2016: I just shampooed with the Smooth as Silk Deep Moisture Shampoo. It had a nice citrus scent and cleaned […]
Update 10/31/2016: I avoided this for a while, but I’m just not going to try this. I don’t trust that there is soap (the saponified shea butter mentioned below). It also has magnesium sulfate. This is epson salt. I know it’s in a shampoo, and I’m usually okay (but not thrilled) with salts in […]
Update 9/12/2106: Crap. Alaffia Beautiful Curls Deep Conditioning Treatment has magnesium sulfate. This is epson salt. So I wrote Alaffia and asked them to offer some conditioners for very curly hair without the salt so I can recommend them (provided they don’t substitute for something equally drying). While I was there I asked for […]
Ugh. This has potassium hydroxide, which is chemically functionally similar to the dreaded sodium hydroxide. It also has isopropyl alcohol for some reason. And I’m not thrilled with amodimethicone, but that is the least of my concerns with this conditioner.
Update 9/10/2015: It’s been a week, and I’m recommending this combing conditioner. It kept my curls nice and weighed. I found it really moisturizing for the ends of my hair. I think this would be a great conditioner for winter when everything is extra dry. Update 9/4/16: I went through the ingredients and felt […]