Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyle@Badger & Blade
The Good:
- Moisturizers – These are used to hold moisture in the hair. Typically, moisturizers are humectants which serve to absorb water from the air and force it into the hair.
- Oils (EFAs – Essentially Fatty Acids) – these help your hair to become more soft and pliable. EFA’s mimic sebum which is the oil naturally produced by your body and released through your hair follicles.
- Surfactants – These are wetting agents that lower the surface tension of a liquid, allowing easier spreading, and they act as an emulsifier which facilitates the blending of unblendable substances (such as oil and water).
The Bad and The Ugly:
- Reconstructors – These are used to penetrate the hair and strengthen its structure.
- Acidifiers – They keep the pH around 2.5-3.5 which causes the somewhat scaly cuticle to tighten up.
- Detanglers, Thermal Protectors, Glossers – These act to again contribute to the acidic environment (tightening the cuticle) and to put a coating layer on the hair.
As you can see, depending on what exactly your hair conditioner contains, it very well could be making your job (shaving) much more difficult than is necessary.
and the ingredients of my Pantene Pro-V Classic Care Conditioner are listed as:
Ingredients
Water, Cyclopentasiloxane, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Cetyl Alcohol, Quaternium-18, Stearyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, PEG-2M, Polysorbate 60, Cetearyl Alcohol, Benzyl Alcohol, Oleyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Fragrance, Panthenyl Ethyl Ether, Citric Acid, EDTA, Panthenol, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone.
Now, I'm sorry, but I read that ingredient list, and all I see is:
water, blah-blah-blah, alcohol, blah-blah-blah, orange juice, blah-blah-blah
.....no way MY little pea-brain is going to correlate Kyle's list with the ingredients list.
Fortunately, I'm used to being confused.
-whatever
-Lou