Not Recommended: TRESemmé Botanique Damage Recovery Conditioner
This has potassium chloride, a salt. Salt is harsh and drying in anything you’ll leave in your hair. Avoid this product for use with the tightly curly method.
Not Recommended
Not Recommended: TRESemmé Botanique Curl Hydration Conditioner
This has potassium chloride, a salt. Salt is harsh and drying in anything you’ll leave in your hair. It also has sodium sulfate, another salt. So this is extra salty. Avoid this product for use with the tightly curly method.
Not Recommended: Vidal Sassoon Pro Series Moisture Lock Conditioner
I’ve been trying to find a variety of brands to try out and recommend. This one looked good during a brief glance in the store. But when I got it home I saw what I’d missed. Sodium hydroxide. Do you see it lurking there? It starts on the fifth line, but it’s broken up and […]
Not Recommended: Frizz Ease Flawlessly Straight Conditioner
Update 3/9/2017: I was looking up the ingredients, and after looking up PEG-14M in my heavy duty Gottshalk ingredients dictionary/ tome, it turns out to be an ingredient to avoid. It’s made of repeating chains of ethylene oxide, which is banned in Europe for being possibly cancer causing. 2/9/2017: This Frizz Ease conditioner looks promising from […]
Not Recommended: Pantene Hydrating Butter-Creme
I’m guessing from the ingredient list this would be used as sort of a hair dressing. When I was a teenager I used hair dressing every night, feeling absolutely in my heart they were helping my chemically damaged hair. I smoothed it on my ends every night and combed and set my hair, believing all the […]
Not Recommended: Pantene Gold Series Moisture Boost Conditioner
There I was, walking through a Walgreen’s, and this bottle of Pantene Gold nearly jumped off the shelf at me. I snatched it up and flipped it over (I never read all the promises on a bottle’s front. They can tell you anything they think you want to hear. I just read enough to think […]
Not Recommended: Mixed Chicks Shampoo
Update 12/30/2016: It should have jumped out of me in the store before I bought it, but it didn’t. This has TEA lauryl sulfate. This is a drying cleanser, and that it’s so high up on the ingredients list makes me too nervous to try it. Which is too bad, because the other ingredients seemed […]
Not Recommended: Dark and Lovely Au Naturale Slick Slip Leave-In Conditioner
Update 1/2/2017: I debated whether I could recommend this product or not. Honestly, I hated using it and didn’t want to smooth any more on my hair in the morning because I am paranoid about buildup (of the polyquaternium-11), and I swear my skin felt sticky around my hair line all the time. However, this […]
Not Recommended: Clairol Professional iThrive Keratin Rescue Conditioner
This one has sodium chloride in it. I’m sure it’s there as a cheap thickener and may be just fine, but I’m paranoid. I don’t like to use a conditioner with salt in it because I leave the conditioner in my hair, and salt is corrosive. I’m not thrilled with it in shampoos either. But […]
Not Recommended: Mizani True Textures Shampoos
My apologies for the crappy “feature” photo. I didn’t realize it was blurry until I was downloading it at home. I think my camera auto-focused on the face in the advertisement or something. But still, you get the idea of what these products look like. And since I’m not recommending them, I don’t think they […]
Not Recommended – Pantene truly Natural Hair Moisturizing Shampoo
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 […]
Not Recommended – Dove Quench Absolute Shampoo and Dove Regenerative Nourishment Shampo
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. […]
Not Recommended – Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie
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 […]
Not Recommended – Carol’s Daughter Hair Milk curl defining moisture mask
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 […]
Not Recommended – Miss Jessie’s Multicultural Curls Lotion
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 […]
Not Recommended – Dove Quench Absolute Conditioner and Dove Regenerative Nourishment Conditioners
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 […]
Not Recommended – John Frieda Frizz Ease Beyond Smooth Conditioner
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 […]
Not Recommended – Suave Sleek Conditioner
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, […]
Not Recommended: Kinky-Curly Knot Today Natural Leave In/ Detangler
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 […]
Not Recommended: Garnier Fructis Curl Nourish Fortifying Conditioner
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 […]