Reset your curls with Clarifying Ingredients

Reset your curls by clarifying up to 2 times a month. This is a necessary step to remove oils and product build-up from your hair and scalp. The ingredients in cg approved clarifying shampoos are harsher than gentle cleansers but not as harsh as sulfates. After clarifying, do a deep conditioning treatment. This will restore moisture and natural oils that the clarifying shampoo has stripped.

When to clarify?

If you hair is consistently not behaving well on wash day … it’s probably time to clarify! Some signs that you need to clarify include:

• hair looks dull, frizzy, stringy or dirty when it is clean
• scalp is itchy or flaky
• curls fall flat

Types of build-up include:

• Natural build-up for sweat, sebum and natural oils
• Product build-up
• Mineral build-up from hard water or chlorine
• Polyquat build-up
• Protein build-up

Clarifying ingredients that remove product or oil build-up:

• Sodium Olefin Sulfonate
• Tea Tree Oil
• Eucalyptus
• Lemongrass

Chelating ingredients to remove hard water build-up:

• Disodium EDTA (Ethylamine Diamine Tetraacetic Acid)
• Tetrasodium EDTA 
• Pentasoidum Pentetate
• Sodium gluconate 
• Sodium phytate
• phytic acid

CG Approved Clarifying Products