QuoteReplyTopic: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Other Nasty Ingredients (long, sorry!) Posted: January 12 2000 at 3:05am
Hello I heard the acid lauryl sulfate is very harsh, I personally use Sebastian which only contains lauryl sulfate and leaves my hair silky and shiny, I have a friend who owns a factory for cosmetic products ingredients, and she says that low cost shampoos usually have harsh ingredients, while professional shampoos have expensive and fine ingredients, regards.
> Hello,Hi!> Anyway, I went to a Natural> Foods Store and found a shampoo by Jason Naturals(??)> that does not contain sulfates...and to my surprise it> worked!>> Do any of you out there have ever heard of such thing?> Are there any other products out there that you use> that are harsh-chemical free?Yup. In fact I alternate between a sythetic detergent based shampoo and a castille soap based shampoo. One thing to realize is that many products that advertise having no sulphates have other synthetic foaming additives to replace the lauryl sulphates... since personally I'm not enough up on chemistry to know which of the many, many variations might be better for my hair and scalp I try to avoid them. I'm always afraid they might turn out to be worse. Castille soap based shampoos don't have synthetic detergents... but the downside is that they don't foam up as much.I tried using a couple kinds of Aubrey Organics shampoos, but I REALLY did not like the results. It left my hair brittle and dry. I have found a castille soap based shampoo by a company called botanics of california that has worked well for me, it leaves my hair soft and silky... I can get you the website address if you'd like. However I don't feel it gets my hair as clean so I alternate it with a traditional shampoo. I know that some of the books that Karen has in her book review section have recipies for natural shampoos as well and I've been very interested in trying them. To bad I don't have much time to play kitchen chemist lately. :-(-jennifer j
> Hello,> I have a question to all of you who have used many> brands of shampoos and conditioners. Not being someone> who really reads labels, I used to just buy hair> products by their so called "properties",> i.e. to make hair shiny, with more volume, etc.> However, according to different sources I have come to> find out that most shampoos and conditioners are> loaded with harsh chemicals. Namely Sodium Lauryl> Sulfate, Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate and DEA Lauryl> Sulfate which are almost always present in most> products I have seen. From what I read Lauryl Sulfates> causes, among many things, dry and itchy flaky skin. I> have suffered from dry itchy and flaky scalp for as> long as I remember so I have been looking for a> solution to my problem. Anyway, I went to a Natural> Foods Store and found a shampoo by Jason Naturals(??)> that does not contain sulfates...and to my surprise it> worked!> At least for my hair and scalp, I must say that since> I switched to a no-sulfate product my scalp does not> flake or itch anymore. Another awful ingridient is> Propylen Glycol which is found in all kinds of things> from Antifreeze, to cosmetics to bluberry muffins> (BLEAH!) but that is another story...> Do any of you out there have ever heard of such thing?> Are there any other products out there that you use> that are harsh-chemical free?> By the way I found a lot of this info about chemicals> to avoid here:> http://www.mastey.com/menu.htm> Also Aubrey Organics (which I have never used)has some> information:> http://www.aubrey-organics.com/avoid.htm
Hello,I have a question to all of you who have used many brands of shampoos and conditioners. Not being someone who really reads labels, I used to just buy hair products by their so called "properties", i.e. to make hair shiny, with more volume, etc. However, according to different sources I have come to find out that most shampoos and conditioners are loaded with harsh chemicals. Namely Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate and DEA Lauryl Sulfate which are almost always present in most products I have seen. From what I read Lauryl Sulfates causes, among many things, dry and itchy flaky skin. I have suffered from dry itchy and flaky scalp for as long as I remember so I have been looking for a solution to my problem. Anyway, I went to a Natural Foods Store and found a shampoo by Jason Naturals(??) that does not contain sulfates...and to my surprise it worked!At least for my hair and scalp, I must say that since I switched to a no-sulfate product my scalp does not flake or itch anymore. Another awful ingridient is Propylen Glycol which is found in all kinds of things from Antifreeze, to cosmetics to bluberry muffins (BLEAH!) but that is another story...Do any of you out there have ever heard of such thing? Are there any other products out there that you use that are harsh-chemical free?By the way I found a lot of this info about chemicals to avoid here:http://www.mastey.com/menu.htmAlso Aubrey Organics (which I have never used)has some information:http://www.aubrey-organics.com/avoid.htm
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