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
