Shampoo/Conditioner help

[revolution5ft]

 Hello everyone, I've searched the tags and after looking online for two days I am at my wit's end. Plus my brain actually hurts

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[purdynerdy]

I love using either Burt's Bees (sulfate free) or Aussie's products. You can't go wrong with Pantene or Dove either, IMO. I'm sorry I can't give more specific recommendations, but I don't have thin or curly hair, haha. xD

[revolution5ft]

I just used the Burt's Bees Grapefruit shampoo, and I am not a happy camper. My hair became a tangled mess, and the conditioner made it worse. I ended up having to wash/condition it again to get everything out.

Which SUCKS because this is the first BB product that I haven't liked! (I use their stuff for my face and it's never looked better)

[yourwateryhands]

If you are just switching to sulfate free products, it will take your hair a bit to adjust. My hair is also thin and curly and I had the same issue with Burt's Bees shampoo/conditioner at first, but after a couple of weeks my hair looks better than it ever has.

[maude]

I have long curly hair that love to frizz out. I use Suave Natural Clarifying Shampoo every few days and Sauve Natural conditioner every day. It's cheap and silicone-free :)

[icephantom]

suave natural suuuuuper dried out my hair =\ but maybe that was just my experience

[revolution5ft]

agreed, I have not had good experiences with Suave. My dad loves the clarifying stuff, but it dries me out.

[onlyforever10]

I've had really good luck with the Loreal SuperSleek (I think that's the name??) line. It's silicone free too!

[neigh_oh_my]

This! (I think you mean EverSleek?) but I use the EverStrong and have been for probably a year now. It's pretty great!

[onlyforever10]

Yes! EverSleek. I can't ever get the name right for some reason :)

[caliginous]

If you live by a Trader Joes their stuff is great. My hair is fine and thin and tends to be dry, the moisture spa line is terrific. and it's $3 a bottle. Sulfate and cone free, minimal scent, lasts a good long while. The conditioner is the consistency of squeeze margarine, and a little goes a long way.

[kels]

This may sound nit-picky, but I just wanted to point out that the Trader Joe's shampoos are not sulfate free. They are SLS free, but SLS is just one kind of sulfate. Trader Joe's shampoos contain "sodium c14-16 olefin sulfonate" or "c14-16 olefin sulfonate" (exact same thing) which is simply another kind of sulfate. It's derived from coconut oil and petroleum.

I just get annoyed when beauty companies claim that their products are "sulfate free", when really they're just free of SLS or ALS, which are the more commonly used and more widely known sulfates. There are other kinds of sulfates, though.

[caliginous]

You have a really good point. Fortunately though it's ingredient # 14 of 21 in the TJ's moisture range, as opposed to many other brands that have it (or ammonium sulfate or other horrible stuff) as ingredients 2-6.

[kels]

Personally, I don't find the Trader Joe's shampoos much less drying than other shampoos that I've used with SLS or ALS in them.

I do like that they are cheap and not tested on animals, though.

[swimmingotter]

I've been using Tresseme Naturals lately. They're sulfate free, and they're not too crazy expensive (they're on sale right now at Rite Aid, if you live near one. With the Rite Aid Card they're $3.88). I hated the Tresseme for curly hair (my hair is that in between wavy/frizzy), but the one I'm using now is the Naturals smoothing one, and it's great!

[kels]

Tresemme Naturals shampoo is not sulfate free. It says on the front of the bottle that it has "Lower Sulfates!" which means that it has ammonium lauryl sulfate (or ALS). This isn't really much "lower" or more gentle on the hair. It's more marketing than actual chemical fact.