Are Silicones Bad For Your Hair?
Beauty Science, hair products | (12)
Recently, I've been researching certain hair product ingredients that are on the "bad" for your hair list, like silicones. Basically, silicones are in nearly every hair product. Pick up a bottle of your conditioner and read the ingredients. Do you see Dimethicone, Cyclomethicone or something that ends in "cone"? Well, that's a silicone!
So why are they bad? Put simply: Silicones create a covering over the hair shaft that can create build up. The reason haircare manufactures put silicones into hair products, is because they also smooth the hair, especially while it is wet. You know that slippery feeling you get ...