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Ma Provence shampoo bar

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@lunatic
13 years ago
24 posts

I had recently bought this bar shampoo and I am wondering if it is bad for my three month old dreads. I have used it twice and I used it with Dr. Bronners peppermint liquid shampoo just to minimize any negative effects it may have. I checked the ingredients today and i believe it's too conditioning since it said it contains shea butter. But I'm not an expert and I would need an advice or second opinion

(: i just hope i didn't get one of these products that are said to be so organic, eco.. and all these adjectives are added just in order to sell the product better. (sorry for my english, not my first language).

Ingredients:Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate,Sodium Coco-Sulfate,Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Starch,Cetearyl Alcohol, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Fruit Water*,Rhus Verniciflua Wax,Sodium Laurylsulfate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter)*,Cocamidopropyl Betaine,Aqua (Water), Coco-Glucoside,Montmorillonite,Parfum (Fragrance),Glycerin*,Lauryl Pca,Glyceryl Stearate, Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891), Urtica Dioica Extract*,Citric Acid,Sodium Benzoate,Potassium Sorbate, Limonene,Eugenol,

more info --> http://www.beautybynature.co.za/site/content/productview/id/728

And I would like to say hello, since I was lurking these forums for about a month and I decided to join the community. I must say I like the simple philosophy on dreads much more comforting and encouraging (especially during the struggles). I believe if I had written on many other forums that I don't like the way my dreads are being all frizzy and uncontrollable, people would suggest re-doing them with wax or by crocheting. But here I'd probably just be encouraged to be more patient and let them dread on their own.

It really is funny how over the years, normal becomes unnormal, weird and by some people even unnatural/unnormal. (dreadlocks being the natural state of hair)


updated by @lunatic: 01/13/15 09:04:00PM
Lunatic
@lunatic
13 years ago
24 posts

Thanks for the reply, I really wasnt aware of these fancy-named chemicals (: I'll definitely check Clearly natural, and I've also heard that Lush's solid shampoos are good for the dreads (at least some, I know some are supposed to be conditioning). As for the dryness, which is currently not a big problem at all, but the occasional oiliness is more disturbing. I guess it's just the hair getting used to the whole new posture. I wash them twice a week, and i thougt that was a lot (until I've heard that a lot of people wash every single day, which to me seems like overdosing with washing and stripping away all the natural oils).

The frizzies aren't a "problem" at all, maybe the whole messyness and loops can at some moments be a little distracting. I really don't want to have the feeling that I need to hide them on more formal occasions, so I normally just let them be how they want to be, or put on a wrap.

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