10 Ingredients To Avoid Putting On Your Hair

[hello_kitty]

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Originally Posted by M.A.C. head. I've gotten over all the "cancer causing" hoopla.

Exactly. EVERYTHING seems to "cause" cancer nowadays. #1 cause of death? Life itself

Seriously... I suppose we could go back to the 1700s when there was less modern "cancer causing" stuff around, but we'd probably all be dying when we were 35, too.

I like the bit about chlorine and swimming pools and children. Guess we better just stick them in front of the TV with a video game, no swimming for them! It'll give them cancer! *rolls eyes* Better to be fat and out of shape, then swimming in a pool!

 

[DigitalRain]

While you are driving to the health food store to buy the chemical free and non carcinogenic shampoo and conditioner, don't forget to hold your breath to keep from inhaling those toxic fumes from your car, the fifty million other cars on the road and the tons of pollution being pumped into air by Dow Chemical.

I guess what Im saying is at this time and age, theres no fool proof way to avoid ingesting/inhaling chemicals. If you aint getting it in your shampoo, be certain you will be getting it one way or another.

 

[Dreamergirl3]

I agree that if any of these ingredients irritate your skin or if you're just really worried about them in general then there are of course alternatives. However I think that if any of those ingredients were as unsafe as that list claims them to be then they wouldn't be in products in the first place...

i love the beautybrains for this kind of stuff!
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[Blueeyesangel18]

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Maybe I'm a weirdo, but it seems like "everything" is made of those ingredients

Ok I'm gonna be a dork and tell you that some of those ingredients such as peg and sodium lauryl sulfate are the fundamental formula for making a shampoo (I know this because this is how we made a shampoo in my formulation and compounding class) however the others seem like very odd ingredients

 

[vocaltest]

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Originally Posted by Blueeyesangel18 Ok I'm gonna be a dork and tell you that some of those ingredients such as peg and sodium lauryl sulfate are the fundamental formula for making a shampoo (I know this because this is how we made a shampoo in my formulation and compounding class) however the others seem like very odd ingredients

yep, i agree. sls is the stuff that makes it foam. i work in a hairdressers, and i believe that sulfate free shampoos in the long term are bad for your hair. as they don't foam as easy, they tug on your hair and cause damage by doing so.
we have people come into my work and say 'i read sulfates are bad for your hair blah blah'. its amazing, they will believe anything they read thats bad. its like actually, no, they can be worse for your hair in the long term. if you've never had a reaction before, why worry now? and like someone said above 'if any of those ingredients were as unsafe as that list claims them to be then they wouldn't be in products in the first place...'. which i agree with. life is too short to worry about avoiding ingredients like that. plus, if you want a sulfate free shampoo, you're looking at searching down hard to find brands (off the top of my head - alterna caviar range, ole henrickson (sp) and deva), and they all come with a price tag. alterna caviar shampoo is about £26. that amount of money for a shampoo (even with my staff discount its ridiculously expensive)? no thanks.