A few weeks ago I purchased a great conditioner at the Ross in down town San Francisco: the Mane ‘n Tail conditioner (yes, originally developed for horses!) Click here for the company’s website.
About the Mane ‘n Tail conditioner
Our highly concentrated formula conditions and fortifies hair and scalp for a renewed, lustrous, healthy look while achieving longer, healthier looking hair.
•Exclusive protein enriched formula fortifies the hair shaft preventing breakage and split ends
•Natural oils nourish and condition the hair and scalp
•Essential moisturizing corrects the drying effect caused by sun, wind and use of bleach and peroxide lighteners
•Keeps hair tangle free, soft and manageable for grooming and braiding
•Effective as a leave-in or rinse out conditioner based on hair type
•Non-greasy formula
I love this conditioner! My hair gets tangled easily when it’s wet (because it’s very curly!), but after using a little bit of this conditioner I can run my fingers through it without crying! It makes my hair supersoft as well.
Oh, by the way…I’m still using my Tangle Teezer brush (see pic), which I love. Follow this link for my original post about it from two years ago.
I’ve recently purchased a second bottle of the Mane ‘n Tail conditioner (I haven’t run out, but just in case it’s not available anymore by the time I do…) and I then started wondering what the difference is between shampoo and conditioner. I looked it up online and because I’m a nice person I decided to share it with my readers! ;-)
So here’s the difference between shampoos and conditioners:
Shampoos contain cleansing ‘surfactants’ like SLS, SLES or other detergents. These materials surround oil, lift it off and get rinsed away with the water. Shampoos remove all the oil, which makes the hair feel more dry.
Conditioners also contain surfactants, but these are conditioning surfactants. These surfactants have a positive charge on them which makes them ‘stick’ to the damaged, negatively charged proteins on hair. So, when they are rinsed away, things like cetyl alcohol and other ingredients in the conditioner are rinsed away. Conditioners also contain silicones that will stick on hair and are not rinsed away. Conditioners mostly remain on the surface of hair but they do absorb to a small degree.
Something everybody should know: 2-1’s aren’t recommended, because they don’t remove all the oil.
Did you know this? I didn’t!
