Even though I was careful to not leave it on for too long (Spoiler: I did not like this conditioner when I used it last time!) and just needed it as a "base" for a quick scritching to get rid of the flakes, I still got that "pissy hair" effect from it.
My hair also absolutely hated the Inecto marvelous moisture argan conditioner from the same line, and Lovea Conditioner Shea butter conditioner.
Time to compare ingredients and see if I can find a culprit...
Inecto super moisturising coconut conditioner
Aqua (Water/Eau), Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearalkonium Chloride, Cetrimonium Chloride, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) oil, Parfum (Fragrance), Stearyl alcohol, Isopropyl alcohol, Sodium benzoate, Citric Acid.
Inecto marvelous moisture argan conditioner
Aqua (Water/Eau), Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetrimonium Chloride, Stearalkonium Chloride, Arganisa Spinosa (argan) kernel oil, Parfum (Fragrance), Stearyl alcohol, Isopropyl alcohol, Sodium benzoate, Citric Acid.
Lovea Conditioner Shea Butter
Aqua (Water), Glyceryl Stearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Cetrimonium Chloride, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Panthenol, Parfum (Fragrance), Methyl Hydroxyethylcellulose, Ceteareth-20, Bht, Magnesium Nitrate, Pantolactone, Ci 19140, Ci 15985, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Magnesium Chloride, Methylisothiazolinone, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Benzyl Salicylate, Hexyl Cinnamal, Linalool.
The Inecto's of course has a lot of repeat ingredients, but Lovea has a few as well:
Inecto super moisturising coconut conditioner
Aqua (Water/Eau), Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearalkonium Chloride, Cetrimonium Chloride, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) oil, Parfum (Fragrance), Stearyl alcohol, Isopropyl alcohol, Sodium benzoate, Citric Acid.
Inecto marvelous moisture argan conditioner
Aqua (Water/Eau), Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetrimonium Chloride, Stearalkonium Chloride, Arganisa Spinosa (argan) kernel oil, Parfum (Fragrance), Stearyl alcohol, Isopropyl alcohol, Sodium benzoate, Citric Acid.
Lovea Conditioner Shea Butter
Aqua (Water), Glyceryl Stearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Cetrimonium Chloride, Butyrospermum Parkii Butter, Panthenol, Parfum (Fragrance), Methyl Hydroxyethylcellulose, Ceteareth-20, Bht, Magnesium Nitrate, Pantolactone, Ci 19140, Ci 15985, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Magnesium Chloride, Methylisothiazolinone, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Benzyl Salicylate, Hexyl Cinnamal, Linalool.
Inecto marvelous moisture argan conditioner
Lovea Conditioner Shea Butter
- Cetearyl Alcohol and Cetyl Alcohol are both oil soluble fatty alcohols that are used as surfactants. So, in the same family, but slightly different.
- Cetrimonium Chloride is a preservative, nonionic surfactant and antistatic according to COSDNA. It is used to prevent static and build-up in the hair. It is present high up on the list in all three products.
- Since I have coarse hair, I'm suspicious of the oils/butters in all three products. Especcially since they are so high on the list. Coincidence? Or a trend?
Schwarzkopf Gliss Ultimate Repair conditioner. Pretty far down the list, but still there.
L'Oreal Elvital anti-breakage. Again, pretty far down the list.
And really high up on the list (Actual ingredient #1!) on two of my favorite leave in-conditioners: L'ANZA Keratin Bond protector and conditioner.
So now I feel like I'm back to square one.
Maybe the problem is in an ingredient-family, and not in a single ingredient, such as the cetearyl alcohol and cetyl alcohol. There could be more examples like this on the ingredient lists, but I don't know enough to recognize it unless they have almost the same names. It could also be the oils/butters.
I guess there is nothing to do but keep watching for products that has that weird effect, and keep comparing ingredient lists for them?
Both me and my boyfriend get the velcro effect too, and especially BF has coarse hair. My hair is thick and I have a lot of it, but generally smoother than his.
ReplyDeleteI dug out one of the hairmask that makes my hair extremly velcro-y, "Balea Winterprotect Haarbalsam":
AQUA │ CETEARYL ALCOHOL │ BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII BUTTER │ GLYCERIN │ GLYCERYL STEARATE │ PANTHENOL │ HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN │ HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN │ HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN │ DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL │ BEHENTRIMONIUM CHLORIDE │ CETRIMONIUM CHLORIDE │ GUAR HYDROXYPROPYLTRIMONIUM CHLORIDE │ HYLOCEREUS UNDATUS FRUIT EXTRACT │ CITRIC ACID │ SODIUM CHLORIDE │ PARFUM │ SODIUM BENZOATE │ PHENOXYETHANOL.
Cetrimonium Chloride is in there, too; likewise the alcohols. And despite Shea butter so high up on the list, that stuff actually makes my hair feel drier. I'm not even using it for hair anymore, but as a shaving cream and my skin also doesn't like it very much.
Hmmm! That is really interesting. And kind of weird...
DeleteSo, all three repeat ingredients are in your velcro-effect product too. Are we looking at a combination of ingredients causing the effect more than a single culprit?
Thank you for digging the ingredient list up <3