The bad stuff!

We created a list of products which were tested as harsh ingredients to avoid in your natural hair.
Most common ingredients to avoid are:
· Alcohol Denant
· Fragrance
· Isopropyl Alcohol
· Mineral oil
· Petroleum
Other ingredients are:
Sulfates – (causes: dryness, stripping, breakage and frizz) is what causes suds.
· Ammonium laureth or lauryl sulfate
· Sodium alkylbenzene sulfonate
· Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate
· Ethyl PED-15 cocamine sulfate
· Sodium c14-16 olefin sulfate
· Sodium lauteth, myreth or lauryl sulfate
· Sodium lauryl sulfoacetate
· TEA – dodecylbenzene sulfonate
Silicones (end in cone, conol, col and Xane) PEG OR PPG = water soluble
· Cetearyl methicone
· Cetyl dimethicone
· Dimethicone
· Dimethiconol
· Stearyl dimethicone
· Amodimethicone
· Cyclomethicone/cyclopentasilecane
· Trimethylsilylamodimethicone
· Beherloxy dimethicone
· Stearoxy dimethicone
Milder silicones
· PEG OR PPG in front
· Dimethicone copohyol
· Hydrolysed wheat protein hyfroxpropyl polysiloxane
· Lauryl methicone copolyol
Alcohols (causes: dryness)
· SD alcohol 40
· Ethanol alcohol
· Propyl alcohol
· Isopropyl alcohol
· Isoproponal alcohol
· Ethyl alcohol