SLS

For the past year or two, there has been a lot of hype around SLS free products (sodium laureth sulfate). Any kind of sulfate is the detergent of the shampoo or other product that it contained it. Apparently there are studies that link it to cancer, however every person that quotes these "studies" becomes extremely vague when I begin to question them about the all the outcomes of the study or about the groups of people that have been used. I remember in an older issue of Cosmopolitan, that question was posed to a derm who said that there is nothing wrong with SLS, It is the most gentle detergent and will not harm as long as it is properly used (like washing the shampoo out of your hair and not leaving it on all day).

However, the SLS free product craze still continues. the leader of this craze was Jonathan Antin and his line of terrible products. a product with no SLS does not foam when it is appiled to the hair or body. Many derms and cosmetic chemists say that foam is extra and is only used in many formulas because the mjority of people want products do foam and don't feel that their products work unless they are foaming up.

Some natural product brands insist that their foam and detergents in their products come from natural sources. Well, they might have originally come from natural sources but after they have been treated and turned into the ingredient in the product, They are far from their natural state and are just like using SLS in your products.

Some people may prefer to use products that are SLS free and that is their choice but I'm sick of people not doing their reserach and thinking that "because a product is natural that its good for me". if something is not 100% certified organic by the USDA, it is not natural.