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 […]
This is a crappy photo of the ingredients, and I know you can barely make them out. I took what felt like dozens of photos of the ingredients, and because the bottle was clear it kept turning out blurry. However, the most important and only real ingredient to see is sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate. One […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 10/31/2016: 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 […]
First of all, nothing can repair hair once it’s damaged. And I don’t logically see how any product can defend anything against harsh chemicals or blistering heat. I guess I just need to blurt that out sometimes when I see products promising things there is no way to deliver, such as L’Oreal EverPure Sulfate-Free Repair & Defend […]
Okay, I finally finished going over the ingredients in Aveda’s Damage Remedy Restructuring Shampoo. Unfortunately, it has dehydroxanthun gum (eighth line down), which sounds like it’s a super concentrated xanthun gum. This is used in products as a hair fixative, like what’s used in hair sprays and gels and such to make them hold hair. It’s weird […]
So I finally finished looking up and researching the ingredients in Alaffia Shea & Honey Nourishing Shampoo, Citrus Blossom. Alas, it has saponified butyrospermum parkii (shea) butter in it. This may sound like a good thing, but what it means is that this is soap made from shea butter. In my research and personal experience, I find soap […]