Sulfates versus Silicones in the Shampoo Race

Naturally curly.com has some mis-information,

“I read on naturallycurly.com the only thing that can remove silicones from the hair are sulfates. Therefore, in order to use sulfate-free shampoos, you need to eliminate any “cones” from your products. I see that you are a big supporter of going sulfate-free, however you recommend serums with silicones in them. Now I’m confused. Can you please help me understand? Thank you.”

You know whats so wonderful? Its just so wonderful that we live in such a great country. Where one person believes this “this way” is the proper method of doing things and on the other person believes something completely different and both are O.K. How cool is that!

If every single person would get rid of their blow dryers, their flat Irons, their Curling Irons, hot rollers, their wave Irons, never go in the sun again, and on and on. Then there would be no need for silicone’s, and I could take away my endorsement of silicone’s for thermal protection ONLY ( which is all I endorse them for).

But I must be based in reality for my endorsements to really be able to help my clients (and now Killer Stranders ). People are simply — NOT going to stop the Thermal Tool use completely, I have never found anything that protects the hair from heat other than silicone. It actually coats the hairs of your head so it resists heat, I bet it will be a very long time before they can come up with a better product for heat protection.

The company that owns the silicone patent: Dupont . . . what else silicone is used for ? You got it……..breast implants ! Same substance just different weights, its a very very big business.

There are large companies that are trying to fight the Sulfate-FREE movement brought on by consumers and myself…

I was the lone hair stylist in this camp and have been for a long time.

I was told they had “people” that would do what they could to shut me up. I can honestly say I was scared for the first year of this blog, because if I wasn’t a big mouth about it when I was a Stylist in the Salon…I certainly was now on the Blog for all the world to see.

P & G is the #1 advertiser in the USA…P & G , is Proctor and Gamble they own 14 hair companies that I can think of off the top of my head. . . . From Clairol to Frederic Fakkai to Herbal Essence to Wella .

They don’t want to change their formula’s - that would cost them a lot of money. They don’t look at the health of the consumer or the consumers hair loss and thinning, ….we all know they only look at the bottom line…Profits.

I didn’t do this because I was bored one day. I was an incredibly busy hair stylist in Malibu California . . . working 12 & 14 hour days 5-6 days a week. I didn’t really have the time for it. But, I always cared about my clients hair. I mean TRULY CARED!

I started to have 18 - 19 - 25 - and 30 year old regulars come in with hair thinning & loss for no apparent reason. It took my assistants and I, 2 years to come up with that being the only common denominator we could find in the people that were coming in and complaining about it. Hair loss should NOT happen to 20 year olds PERIOD!

When they stopped using shampoo’s with sulfate’s the hair loss lessened massively I would say half claimed it stopped completely and 1/2 claimed it stopped about 3/4. To me that was SUCCESS. It was a remarkable enough change that my clients truly thought I was a genius (& we all know that isn’t true!)….they were all so thrilled…I loved making people happy that way so I got the bug to try to help them more.

I remember telling my Assistants that must be what a surgeon or doctor feels like when they cure a person from a disease, It was the most wonderful feeling to help these people stop their hair loss.

So when the hair Fall, as we call it, stopped….then I wanted to work on how to replace what they had loss through steps…. I started with 3 steps and now have 13. The Regimen, if you follow it closely will give you a pretty nice head of hair…I’m very proud of my 13 Steps.

Naturally Curly is dead wrong I’m sorry to say, I fear they must listen to their big corporate sponsors…and/or don’t know any better.

What makes you think silicone’s are still in your hair, I wonder? I mean a lot of crud gets left in our hair and I’m wondering how you know it is silicones?

Don’t you have to keep reapplying them? Most of my clients did, I’ve never known anyone in all 10,000 heads of hair I worked on to say that they feel their hair is loaded down with Silken Seal which is the one I have been recommending for 13-14 years.

Although, even if you do have that issue, there is no better Shampoo to get them and many other substances out than the Malibu 2000 Shampoos. WELL WATER ACTION or SCALP WELLNESS(my personal fav.) or UN DOO GOO shampoo. These all are Sulfate-Free and the BEST Clarifying shampoo you will ever use…and what do they use to cleanse the hair and get more than Silicones out more than A N Y T H I N G ??

…… that comes straight from the citrus fruits; Oranges, Lemons, Grapefruit and Tangerines……and what’s that called???…Citric acid. Citric Acid in very low doses works wonders for removing silicones, or pretty much anything out of your hair. There is also another wonderful ingredient called Disodium EDTA …which uses a very gentle salt to remove build-up as well.

There are plenty of ways to remove any kind of build up on the hair,

the Malibu 2000 line of shampoos are the 3rd best selling product in the Killer Strands Store, so if you haven’t joined the group to get to the store, you must http://groups.google.com/group/killerstrands

Very soon we will have a very cool little e-commerce store with all products I use and have proven to be successful ( won’t that be cool - brainless hair product shopping ??).

I would love for you all to try Scalp Wellness Malibu 2000 Shampoo it will get silicones and product build-up out of your hair in one 5 minute shampoo . . . . and hopefully in 2 weeks maybe we will have a regular e-commerce store….so just hang on a little bit

peace