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I color my hair regularly at home, and when I was introduced to a sulfate free shampoo called Healthy Sexy Hair Reinvent, I was very happy with the results. When I next looked for it, I couldn’t find it, so I tried this product, which has a similar name. I assumed it would be a similar style product as the other. Although the other shampoo was for thin hair, this was moisturizing, and as it was winter and my hair was feeling a bit dry from another product I had been using lately, I thought maybe the moisturizing would be a better
idea anyway. This product has UV protectants, and is sulfate free, which is supposed to help prevent color loss. Sodium lauryl sulfate is the most common detergent used in shampoo, and it is responsible for giving the mainstream shampoos their luxurious lathering ability. With a sulfate free shampoo, you often find that they do not lather well, at least not as well as what we are all accustomed to.
This is a turn off for some, but it does have its
benefits to avoid the sulfates.
The shampoo I was attempting to replace was also sulfate free, which lent
more to the idea that perhaps this was intended to be a copy cat formula. When I tried it out at home, I noticed the fragrance was not very pleasing to me. I can’t exactly describe why, but it has some sort of fruity note in it that I just didn’t care for. This is unusual, since I like a wide variety of scents. It did not lather as well as the previous shampoo.
I expected it to be “lather challenged” since it was sulfate free, but I knew that other sulfate free shampoos did have a pretty decent lather at ...