One ingredient that often gets thrown into the list of ‘must avoid’ is silicone. Sadly, silicones can actually be very helpful when it comes to styling hair, especially if you heat style curly or Afro hair, writes Akesha Reid.
Silicones in hair products have given me some of my best hair days ever. Here’s how they work and why they’re not so bad.
These days, there are a lot of ingredients that get a bad rap for good reason. Gone are the days when we blindly use beautywithout questioning exactly what goes into them – now we’re so much more clued up on the unnecessary ingredients that are often put into our products. One ingredient that often gets thrown into the list of ‘must avoid’ is silicone.
. The most toxic one, however, is that silicones are harmful, which isn’t true at all. Even if every hair product you used in your routine contained silicones, they wouldn’t be harmful to you. There are different variations of silicone which are used in hair products which you can suss out by finding ingredients with -cone at the end, but the most common by far is dimethicone.The main purpose of silicones in hair products is to lock out moisture to prevent frizz. It does this by coating strands to create a physical block, and because of its hydrophobic quality, it doesn’t rinse off the hair easily.
If you continue to apply silicone-based products to the hair without cleansing effectively you’ll get a build-up of silicones that can result in dry, lank and greasy-looking hair. This is why using a good clarifying shampoo in your routine alongside any silicone-based styling product is key. These are the ones I rate:
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“I’m a beauty editor and I love using silicones in my haircare routine – here’s why”One ingredient that often gets thrown into the list of ‘must avoid’ is silicone. Sadly, silicones can actually be very helpful when it comes to styling hair, especially if you heat style curly or Afro hair, writes Akesha Reid.
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