Hair & Beauty Magazine

Ingredient Snob

By Nesheaholic @nesheaholic
Ingredient Snob

I think it's fairly clear that I like products. Hair products and cosmetics. I'm only a tad bit of a product junkie. I would be a HUGE product junkie if I wasn't an ingredients snob. 

Ingredients I try to avoid in general:
Propylene glycol
Phenoxyethanol
Parabens
Cyclopentasiloxane 

Ingredients I avoid specifically in hair products: 
Mineral oil
Silicones
Sulfates

It's absolutely amazing how common those ingredients are, even with records showing that they can be harmful. Pick up a random product near you right now, I'd put money that they are in the ingredient list. 

Label checking is annoying. But I research pretty much every ingredient on EWG Cosmetic database and anything that has ever been linked to cancer, I will not buy a product with it in there. I will not. I try to stick with products/ingredients with 0-2 ratings. 

I will be the first to admit that I check labels more frequently on cosmetics than I do on food...which I know is BAD, but I'm working on it! I do make most of my meals from scratch, and 95% of our meat comes from Five Star Home Foods and is natural/organic so I'm not doing horrible in that department. I also actively avoid high fructose corn-syrup, and pay attention to the order of ingredients in food to see what it's really filled with. 

Are you ingredient conscious? What ingredients do you actively avoid?

Ingredient Snob

Back to Featured Articles on Logo Paperblog