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Originally Posted by Blueeyesangel18

Ok I'm gonna be a dork and tell you that some of those ingredients such as peg and sodium lauryl sulfate are the fundamental formula for making a shampoo (I know this because this is how we made a shampoo in my formulation and compounding class) however the others seem like very odd ingredients

yep, i agree. sls is the stuff that makes it foam. i work in a hairdressers, and i believe that sulfate free shampoos in the long term are bad for your hair. as they don't foam as easy, they tug on your hair and cause damage by doing so.
we have people come into my work and say 'i read sulfates are bad for your hair blah blah'. its amazing, they will believe anything they read thats bad. its like actually, no, they can be worse for your hair in the long term. if you've never had a reaction before, why worry now? and like someone said above 'if any of those ingredients were as unsafe as that list claims them to be then they wouldn't be in products in the first place...'. which i agree with. life is too short to worry about avoiding ingredients like that. plus, if you want a sulfate free shampoo, you're looking at searching down hard to find brands (off the top of my head - alterna caviar range, ole henrickson (sp) and deva), and they all come with a price tag. alterna caviar shampoo is about £26. that amount of money for a shampoo (even with my staff discount its ridiculously expensive)? no thanks.