If your hair is dry and lacking nourishment from root to tip, try Kerastase Nutritive’s shampoo and conditioner combination – designed specifically to provide nourishment from roots to tips.
Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) is a foaming, cleansing and emulsifying ingredient with much milder properties than its cousin Sodium Lauryl Sulfate; thus minimizing potential irritation to the scalp. SLES also helps create foam in products while preventing ingredients from separating.
Sodium Laureth Sulfate
Ninety-nine percent of shampoo on the market uses the surfactant Sodium Laureth Sulfate to clean hair, effectively removing oils and impurities from both your scalp and skin, but could potentially dry it out further if your barrier function has already been compromised.
Sulfates can also be irritating for sensitive skin. SLES is a milder cleanser that may be used as an alternative; less likely to irritate yet still providing effective cleansing benefits.
Parfum (fragrance) is the general name given to a combination of chemicals and plant oils used to give products their distinctive scent. It can often be found at the end of an ingredients list.
Glycol Distearate
Glycol Distearate, commonly referred to as EGDS, is an ideal additive for pearlizing and opacifying products, providing both body and velvety feel to formulations while offering some thickening potential at higher usage levels.
Protein isolate can be obtained from animal or vegetable sources, and typically has a white to cream solid appearance with waxy qualities in its raw state. Protein isolate is produced as the result of reacting ethylene glycol with stearic acid – one of the common fatty acids.
Skin Deep’s comedogenic rating scale ranks it favorably and its hazard score is relatively low, making it an attractive alternative to sodium lauryl or laureth sulfates when used in small amounts.
Sodium Benzoate
Sodium benzoate is a food grade preservative used to inhibit bacteria growth on your skin. You’ll find it in soda, salad dressings and condiments, fruit juices and wine; in skincare it acts as an emulsifier and thickener to help products achieve gel-like textures while preventing them from disintegrating over time.
Parfum (fragrance) is the umbrella term for any combination of chemicals and plant oils used to add scent to products. Since each fragrance can contain different elements from different sources, its impact will differ for every product containing it. Furthermore, fragrance also acts as an effective surfactant allowing users to collect dirt and oil on the skin so it can be washed off more efficiently.
Water
Water is an indispensable ingredient for cosmetic formulations, often appearing near the top of ingredient lists as it acts as a solvent to dissolve other elements into their respective formula.
Kerastase Discipline offers products designed to strengthen hair, featuring the highest concentration of Pro-Keratin of any shampoo on the market and is intended to increase both elasticity and strength in your locks.
Thickening shampoos can help address thinning hair caused by stress or natural aging. Such products often contain hyaluronic acid to fill in surface gaps and plump strands for fuller appearance; other plumping ingredients include Intracylane which was developed as part of glass manufacturing process.
Citric Acid
Citric acid, an AHA derived from citrus fruit, can be an effective exfoliator to combat oily skin and acne, but overexposure could increase UV sensitivity or cause irritation if used too frequently.
Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate provides key ingredients in their signature shampoos and intensive pre-shampoo treatments that repair weak bonds in hair to improve strength, resiliency, color fade protection and frizz control – truly the Swiss Army Knife of haircare! This multi-award winning range has even been nicknamed the Swiss army knife of haircare!
Sodium Hydroxide
Kerastase’s densifying shampoo range contains an effective blend of ingredients designed to create thicker-looking locks. Their Densifique Bain Densite Shampoo and Fondant Densite Conditioner contain formulas packed with hyaluronic acid and gluco-peptides to fill in any gaps and strengthen your fibres for fuller hair.
Sodium Hydroxide is an odourless white crystalline solid that forms hydrates with water (NaOH*nH2O). It is extremely caustic and will burn the skin when handled, reacting violently with it as well as reacting violently with metal surfaces to release flammable hydrogen gas and cause further injury.
Vitamin E can be found in numerous products, from cosmetics and cleaning agents to food packaging materials and preservatives. Its presence provides important benefits in many forms of manufacturing processes.