Why Use A Silicone Free Shampoo?

Why use a Silicone Free Shampoo?

Why use a silicone free shampoo?

Recently, I got a few mails from people asking me why I consider silicone as a con in most of my reviews. So, I just thought of summing up the harmful effects of silicone in your products! Here are the Silicone types, Names of Silicones and the benefits and the disadvantages of Silicones along with how to get rid of silicone from your hair...

 Most of the hair products contains Ingredients written that end with  "cone" or "ane", for example, "Amodimethicone" or "Dimethicone". Most of the silicones have such names as the shampoo brands would love to trick us to get their products sold! Basically, there are 2 kinds of Silicones, one is soluble in water while the other type of silicones are insoluble in water.

Silicones are known to make your hair very shiny, healthy looking, frizz free, soft, shiny and detangled. This is because what silicones do is that they create a coating on the hair that prevents working of other hair treatments. But they do give you hair that just looks healthy, but in reality, silicones make the hair dull, dry and damaged in the long run. Silicones cause hair damage.

Silicones make hair look temporarily shiny and healthy but damage the hair in the long run...

Advantages of Silicone in your hair-

1) Smooth hair

2) Shiny hair

3) Soft hair

4) Healthy looking hair

5) Frizz and tangle free hair

Disadvantages of Silicone in your hair-

1) Damages the hair in the long run

2) Creates a coating, that is hard to remove

3) Can give you a dry scalp and hair

4) Itchy Scalp

5) May give you cancer

6) Does now allow any oil or hair treatment to work

Silicones do not allow any hair treatments or hair oils to work on your hair!

 Names of the Silicones, you need to know and stay away from-

☠ Dimethicone → Insoluble in water, detangles hair, controls frizz and adds shine

☠ Amodimethicone → Insoluble in water, detangles the hair

☠ Phenyl Trimethicone → Insoluble in water, silicone-oil, adds a healthy look to the hair

☠ Dimethiconol → Insoluble in water

☠ Simethicone → Insoluble in water

☠ Lauryl methicone copolyol → Soluble in water

☠ Cyclopentasiloxane → Insoluble in water, silicone-oil that makes the hair soft

☠ Trimethylsiloxyilicates → Insoluble in water, difficult to remove from the hair

☠ Dimethicone copolyol → Soluble in water

☠ Polysiloxane → Coluble in water

☠ Cyclomethicone → Insoluble in water, Most difficult to remove from the hair, adds healthy shine to the hair, also known as Cyclopentasiloxane

Getting rid of silicone from your hair-

Buy clarifying shampoo to get rid of silicones from your hair...

Buying a clarifying shampoo may help to get rid of the silicone from your hair strands. The clarifying shampoos may not be so gentle but it does remove the silicones! Also, switch from your old shampoo to a silicone free shampoo so that the silicone buildup on your hair gets removed! After switching on to sulphate and silicone free hair care products, your hair may feel dry at first and not so shiny too but with the passage of a few weeks, your hair will start to look naturally shiny and voluminous! So, go and try a shampoo sulfate free and experience a joy you hair would have never experienced before! :D

So, do you prefer a silicone and sls free shampoo for your hair care?

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