Is Your Professional Shampoo owned by Unilever?
professional shampoo. PICKING OUT A PROPER SHAMPOO (AND STYLIST) IS JUST AS EXCRUCIATING FOR ME AS IT IS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, AND I HAVE BEEN A LICENSED HAIR STYLIST FOR 12 YEARS.
I have taken many product knowledge classes regarding hair product, and even I still have to wade through the BS. A few things I have gathered along the way……when in doubt, go with how your hair feels. I have most of my regular clients on my recommended regime for hair health, but every now and then a newbie gets thrown into my chair with hair challenges. 100% of my Aveda and TIGI users have had incredibly dry hair. Now, Aveda and TIGI used to be the good guys – but since Aveda sold out to Estee Lauder years ago, and TIGI to Unilever last year their products have changed. Back when I used Bumble and Bumble it was an amazing line, but a a distinct difference can be felt now that they too have sold to Lauder. I have found it to be drying, and stripping of hair color. Part of the change, at least where Aveda is concerned, is that Aveda would use the highest grade ingredients available (much like new to the states Kevin Murphy) leaving the hair feeling soft and conditioned. When they sold out the new owner (keeping the bottom line in mind) used the lowest grade ingredients instead.
getting technical:
pH is very important when considering the effects it has on the skin, hair, and nails. All of the best poo's have a pH of 4.5-5.5
If you remember the pH scale is a scale from 1(acidic) to 14 (alkaline). The pH of pure water is a 7, so when one is simply standing under the shower the water we use every day makes our hair more alkaline.Here's a bit of trivia - when a shampoo says it's "pH balanced" it never sais what it in fact is balanced to - we need to stay in the acidic range to maintain good healthy shiny hair.
Why Pantene is bad:
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Pay close attention to the sentence containing: substansive (which means that it doesn't come off the hair shaft) and cationic(which means that it bonds to the hairs positive/negative charge).
The reason you don't want silicone in your shampoo or conditioner is that it doesn't wash off and leaves a coating. It also repels heat which will make thick coarse curly hair more difficult to blow dry straight as it will require MORE heat that would normally be necessary.
The silicone also makes fine hair limp and greasy. (This is one thing that KEVIN MURPHY products campaign against, and why I like it so.) It makes the hair extremely difficult to style and I've seen hair so coated that you can't get the hair straight no matter how much heat is applied. When blow drying you can feel it come off on your hands.
Sure it de-tangles and makes the hair shiny, but this is not a miracle ingredient.
The pH of most store shampoo's are very high, blowing open your hair cuticle, which can cause color fadage. Then they have a conditioner, which brings the pH way down but also contains waxes and silicones which coat the hair, making it feel "soft and healthy" but really just coats the hair and makes it more difficult to perform future chemical services. Sure they can claim to be pH "balanced" because having a shampoo with a pH of 8 and a conditioner, pH 2 or 3, balances the hair back to a 5.
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