Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Understanding Your Labels: Beauty Products Ingredients



To understand what goes into your conditioners, shampoos, and beauty products in general you can break down each ingredient listed on the label into groups :


  • Chemicals
  • Natural Botanical/Extracts
  • Oils
Research these ingredients online

It's time consuming but once you know most of the ingredients in just one of your hair/beauty product it gets easier to spot what's, what in your beauty products.

Many beauty (Hair) products have the same ingredients as all others products, see if you can find the same ingredients listed on two different type of lotions or conditioners, or even shampoos. You can get the idea of how ingredients are used.

The Cosmetic Data Base website is a chemical search engine

http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/

You can look up the definition of chemicals
what the chemical is used for in beauty products, and even the level of danger if using a products with these ingredients.


Google (Engine Search) for Quick Definitions

To understand the benefits Botanical, Herbs, and Oils plays in beauty products, just Google the particular name, plus hair, and benefits

Example: Coconut Oil+hair+benefits

Websites will have great info about these ingredients; you can Google: Herb List or Botanical List to get a full description of each herb

Many websites have a large list with definitions, properties, and usage

Websites for Hair Care and Natural Hair Care
Popular websites dedicated towards healthy hair have threads discussing:

Hair Products
How To Use Hair Tools
Hair Regimens
Oils and How to Use Them
Hair Terms meanings like: Bunning, Trimming, Sealing

Long Hair Care Forum
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/forum.php

Nappturality
http://www.nappturality.com/

Naturally Curly
naturallycurly.com

Black Hair Media
www.blackhairmedia.com/

Long Hair Community
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/


More Information Coming Soon!


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