Are Silicones Bad For Your Hair? The Truth About Silicones in Haircare Products
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Cutting out silicones was the reason my hair couldn't grow past a certain length: it just kept snapping off. I believed that silicones are just the "illusion of healthy hair" for the longest time. It's so good to hear that it's not the case! Also, perosnally, I'd rather live with the 'illusion' than the dry, tangled mess my hair turns into without them.
Cosmetics are about illusions anyways
😂 So true!
After you started using a shampoo with silicones has your hair grown more?
@@username10192 I wouldn’t recommend that as it builds up on your scalp if I would use silicone based anything it would be conditioner just for the ends of the hair
Is it possible that it’s only like that because you’ve used silicones for a long time like my hair is fine where I’ve never used silicone but my ends they get tangled I’m not sure if that’s because I’ve bleached them many times or if that’s because I might have used a silicone based product
High porosity curly girl here. My hair will not survive frizz and moisture loss with out a sealant like silicone. People need to stop fear mongering silicone. As long as you clarify regularly and deep condition u will be fine
Agree
Which silicones do you use in your products?
@@ade2nd664 usually anything that ends with “cone”. Example amodimethicone. I clarify once or twice a month to avoid build up.
@@adriannajauregui8816 thank you :)
What clarifying shampoo do you use? I’m using the Pantene smoothing conditioner now
I went silicone free and only used natural hair products for about a year while trying out the curly girl method. My hair looked absolutely disgusting, it broke off a lot and my scalp was in a very bad condition, oily and itchy. Turns out some natural shampoos can be extremely irritating. Now, about 1.5 years later, my ends are still looking thin because of how much hair I lost back then. I'm back to using Pantene, Elvive and whatever and straightening my hair, and it's growing back healthy and strong. 🙏🏼 I no longer care about what the self-proclaimed hair experts on Tiktok say, most of them don't know a thing.
When I was checking out at TJMaxx the other day, the cashier told me I have pretty hair and it looks really healthy 😭 when I say I almost cried...I've worked so hard over the last 2 years to get here, following lots of Abbey's advice. So thank you! And I use silicones btw 😉
Omggggg my heart 😫❤️❤️
Awww!!
👏🏻👏🏻I’ve learned so much too❣️I love the way Abbey makes everything so clear and easy to understand.
I went silicone free a few years back for nearly a year thinking it would make my hair 'healthier'. No it got worse. Was always tangled. Broke more and was way drier. I have fine hair that tangles easily so silicones help me detangle easily without breaking my hair. Once I added silicones back in my hair has felt 100x better. My routine now is shampoo/condition with Olaplex. Spray Its A 10 leave-in (has silicones) all over after towel dried. Apply a small amount of Olaplex 6&7 to ends. After I blowdry apply a small amount of Moroccanoil light oil (also has silicones). This routine has kept my hair in the best condition. I also do Olaplex 3 1x a week and also the Olaplex mask regularly as well.
I agree!!!! I love silicone on my hair
Could this be the reason why my hair always feels dry and lifeless even though I’m always conditioning.
Olaplex contains dimethicone which is a silicone that can be washed out with water. Some other silicones cause build up.
@@ceciliaeastwood8947Only oil base silicones creates build up not water base
I have silicone buildup on hair for a year now. If I use a clarifying shampoo now, will it remove my old silicone buildup from hair?? Please answer 😭🥺
As a guy with curly wavy hair, I totally agree with the points you made in this video. I used to be really into all the pseudoscience that brands would make regarding silicone with textured hair and I thought it was a bad thing. All this misinformation really needs to go away with clean beauty as a whole.
I love that you’ve done so much research and are debunking these myths. We villainize these ingredients so quickly without taking the time to do real research. Love these deep dives!! You’re killing it 🤍
I went silicone free for a few months and just started to reimplement them back into my routine. I recently started using pureology strength cure (contains silicones), per your recommendation and my hair is the healthiest it has EVER been and has grown about 2 inches in one month
😍😍😍
Yeah when I went natural years ago and was trying to learn my curls I was strict CGM for a while. But back then my hair was still very high porosity from the years of straightening my hair so with no silicones it made detangling a friggin nightmare. I’m low porosity now and I can manage without silicones in everything but I certainly don’t avoid them anymore.
Love Pureology 💜💜💜
I have quite long hair, and have found that you cannot seem to WASH OUT THE SILICONE FROM YOUR HAIR. ! It's unnatural to use such a product. . I notice that
SILICONE encourages HUMAN MITES. Think about that and decide is it be worth the risk. Since I used silicone, my y hair fell out by in literally handfuls !
Me to,so much less drying that the kerestase
Thank you for putting all of your research into a such a clear and straightforward video! I went silicone free for about a year and my hair never looked worse. My fine hair was always tangled and hard to style, leading to lots of breakage, but silicone has been so vilified I was scared to go back to it. I finally did some research and realized that silicones are actually helpful to my hair type. I’ve incorporated some silicone products into my routine, and my hair is shinier, stronger and looks better than ever. And since it’s not breaking, it’s getting fuller and longer, too.
I love silicones in my haircare! I have super fine and thin hair, and silicones have helped protect my already fragile hair from becoming more damaged from heat.
wjat kind do you use? Thanks❤
@@brendabrinkmanpasichnyk3500 pureology strength cure shampoo and conditioner, pureology 21 benefits spray, olaplex 6 and 7!
@@hattiebrunner2827 thank you honey!😊
What brand of shampoo hair products do you use? Thank you
@@chiaraboccelli4189 I love kerastase but it’s super expensive. Lot of people like Pureology I’ve never tried that. Moroccanoil has some decent products too
Yes! Love this! I almost went silicone-free for my curls until I realized it was the heavy oils that was weighing my hair down. My curls are back to how they were when I was a kid thanks to silicones.
Yesss amazing 🙌🏻
What products do you use?
Love this video about silicones! I stop using because of the scary stories and the curly girl method but my hair didn't do well without it even tho I completely got it out of my hair. The curly girl method really screwed up my scalp and I lost hair from all that hard scrunching and quit doing it. So now I'm a total rebel. I use whatever I want as long as it's high quality or I think will help my hair within reason and I use heat very carefully......AND I wear my hair straight most of the time because it's easier on me even tho I do have a strong wave. I'm still trying to wrap my head (no pun intended) around the fact that we have all seemed to forgotten that we KNOW how to deal with our hair and what works for us. I have consistently found that when I do things MY way my hair responds beautifully. I think this is what Abbey is trying to tell us. Thank you Abbey!
Thanks so much for touching a little on the curly hair topic. After watching your videos for a while and understanding ingredients and what my hair needs, I started to wear my hair in its natural texture(wavy curly) after probably 15-20 years of straightening, curling iron, etc... It's only been about 6 months and my curls definitely have damage but they're looking pretty nice. Its been crazy to try and figure out what "curly hair needs" with all the info out there for that community. So as usual, I always find my self back to you and your info because it just makes the most sense. Thanks again!
Hi Abbey. Excellent video as usual. I started using the K18 mask based on your videos, as well as products with silicones. The results were great at first but lately my hair became excessively dry. I had been using K18 maintenance shampoo, Redken acidic bonding concentrate, Amica Flash, Color Fanatic, Redken Big Blowout and Olaplex 7 -- all containing silicones. The drier my hair got, the more Color Fanatic and Olaplex 7 I used, until my hair was dried to a crisp. Even the K18 mask stopped working. This morning I tried the K18 clarifying shampoo instead and avoided anything with silicones. To my relief, my hair is back to normal. I didn't recognize the signs of silicone buildup. So if you use silicones, a good shampoo is not enough; a clarifying shampoo is a must. Now I'll be cutting back on silicone products and adding a clarifying shampoo once a week.
Thank you so much for enlightening the public once again! I’m so passionate about this because I at one point was a ‘victim’ of this fear mongering. In 2016 or something, my hair was very long. All of a sudden I got into the ‘no-poo, everything you apply on your body gets in to your bloodstream’ corner of UA-cam. I was shocked and decided to just use a harsh ‘natural’ shampoo bar. It ruined my long hair and after a year or something, I had to chop off everything I worked for years before. I’m not saying that a natural approach is wrong, just that everyone is different and we should consume these kind of bold unscientific claims with a grain of salt.
I just love your channel and appreciate your research based content rather than just personal opinions. Keep doing what you’re doing, you’re awesome!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for this video! I was over here thinking it was a must to take out silicones and I started adding them back in and my hair felt better but I was worried in the back of my mind thinking it was a no no lol!
Love these kinds of videos! I had a girl tell me silicons we’re ruining my natural waves so I went silicon free for a while and my hair was more wavy, but also much frizzier and dry…..sooooo I quit the silicon free life!
manes by mell is a curly hair youtuber that would confirm everything you said in relation to curly/wavey hair!
my coarse frizzy hair would cry without silicones, lol. i find that using a rinse off product with amino-modified silicones really helps prevent that weird slippery feeling I hate with leave in products that are almost entirely dimethicone, but I would never avoid them outright
Such a great, informative video!
I got sucked into the "clean" beauty/"clean" living mentality many years ago, long before it started to go mainstream. Only recently did I start to come out the other side of it. I found your channel just over a year ago and it was videos like this one that really helped me to understand so many things about beauty products that were a mystery to me before. I just want to thank you(my hair and skin do, too, haha!)
Hi Abbey several years ago during perimenopause my hair was not doing well - excess shedding, severe dryness, breakage etc and I decided to stop fighting with my natural texture. I transitioned back to curly hair with just some diffusing as the only heat I used on my hair. The youtube curly hair community convinced me to stop the silicones and alternate co washing with shampooing. In fairness the lack of heat and styling tools did improve the condition of my hair. As it was so dry oils work well in my hair and my course/curly hair is in need of weight/taming. I also have a very dry/eczema prone scalp, so greasiness isn't an issue for me. A silk pillowcase and bonnet made a massive difference to the tangles and frizz. As I got more confident in wearing my hair curly and learned how to style it, I decided to try adding back some silicones for styling. I live in Scotland (which is a very wet place) and was constantly fighting frizz, due to all the damp weather. I do clarify and deep condition to ensure I don't get buildup and my hair is less frizzy with some silicones in my products. I'm cautious not to overuse them and tend to just use them in my styling and finishing products, but that's what works for me. Oils and butters work really well in my hair to soften and moisturise. Naturally course/curly hair is fairly often high porosity, just due to the structure of having those bends in the hair shaft itself (although that's certainly not true for everyone). I shampoo every week and if I want to/need to then I would co wash once mid week - a very gentle cleanse to refresh my style (mostly in warmer weather tbh). I use the ordinary scalp serum through the week to moisturise my very dry scalp, whilst adding small amounts of oils/serums to the hair to smooth and moisturise the lengths and ends. Every person with curly hair is different and will find different things work for some and not others. Once all the raging hormones subsided my hair stopped shedding as much anyway, but I'm happy with my curls now and have no need to straighten it anymore. Like parabens, sulphates, anti perspirants and all the other "demonised" ingredients the truth is often different to the fear mongering around them. Best wishes.
I have long fine wavy hair. Lots of it but fine and prone to frizz in humidity. For years I’ve used Aveda Light Elements as my ONLY styling product after good shampoo and conditioner. This contains light oil and silicones. My hair is shiny and healthy. Once a man who turned out to be a hairdresser came up to me and asked if I was using a glaze on my hair. So when I started to hear people demonizing silicones I just shrugged 🤷♀️.
I occasionally use a Neutrogena anti residue shampoo.
This all reminds me of the anti gluten bandwagon.
Good job Abbey! 😊
After a very severe case of scalp dermatitis, I went all natural hair care in the hope that my hair would grow back beautiful and to keep my scalp healthy. My hait never looked as bad as with no-poo shampoos and no silicones (ad tight hair styles). Olaplex, which has silicones, has brought my hair back to life ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Great information. Would love to see a similar video on skincare.
I've recently just introduced silicones back into my hair care routine. I have high porosity, wavy fine hair that tangles with the slightest breeze I was doing strictly curly girl method for about 2 years. Initially my hair loved it - my waves turned into curls, I did lots of deep treatments. My hair was full, not frizzy and started developing a natural shine. However, my scalp suffered and my hair growth slowed. I wanted to rebuild my hair from the inside. I recently felt like a got to a point where my hair was healthy enough for me to reintroduce silicones. My hair is now the healthiest I've ever been. No more scalp issues. I invested in the pureology strength cure range and it's the best purchase I've ever made.
Thank you so much for your hair care videos. I was starting to feel so helpless about fixing my hair. And you have given me hope.
YEAH Abbey! Thank you! My hair has only been curly for a few years and I jumped on the silicone free and sulfate free band wagon. My straight hair was always healthy even though I colored it and used a flat iron. l also used silicone products. When I cut out silicones my hair was just never quite the same. I have since started adding back silicones and sulfates and my hair is improving. It never quite made sense to me when certain sulfates were bad but similar ingredients were OK and like you said, silicones were bad but oils were OK? Don't even get me started on parabens. I love your channel and your are awesome. So glad you are living in a safer neighbor hood.
Yes! Thank you for getting this research and information "out there."
I have wavy-curly hair and accidentally went silicone-free due to so many products marketed for my hair type being or going silicone-free. It was NOT a good thing. I never got into the co-wash trend because it didn't make sense to me, especially with all the layers of products the curly community suggests using to style.
Great video. Thank you. :)
I tried silicone free like Shea Moisture and other wavy curly brands. They don’t condition my hair well, it feels nice when it’s on but then my hair felt so dry! Silicones make my hair feel so much better.
Thx Abbey! You confirmed what I already figured to be true, but with a lot of well-researched evidence for a smart and supported argument. I never stopped using products with silicone bc I had some great results with my hair and did not see any validity in those arguments about silicones being bad. But it’s great to know I was right 😉 lol
I have a few silicone-free products that work amazing, but most silicone free products I’ve used left my hair feeling musty, dusty and crusty. I need that coating around this dry, damaged mop 🙌🏽😌
Can you share which products work for you. I'm newish to the fuzz.
I’ve been sulfate and silicone free for a while now, both for hair and overall health reasons, and I’ve been thinking about returning to shampoos/conditioners with those ingredients because I have never, NEVER had to switch up my routine so much than when I was using sulfates and silicones. My hair has never been so dry, has never fallen so much (although some lines have made my hair fall in chunks (coughFunctioncough coughCurlySexycough)), and recently, my scalp has been itchy and dry when I’ve never had to deal with that in my life. So thank you for this video! It’s really helped me get over my fear of returning to normal hair care products 😊
If you haven’t already, can you do a video of your Wet to Dry hair routine, as well tips/tricks on the best way to blow dry your hair!
Definitely could have used this info when I tried the Curly Girl Method for a year... thankfully I came to this conclusion on my own eventually, but this video is super helpful and informative! Thanks Abbey!
CGM seems to be the common culprit here 😂
I used to buy into the silicone thing when I was doing the curly girl method but my hair does fine with and without silicones. Right now I'm using the Amika Strength Cure shampoo & conditioner and my hair feels sooo healthy 💖 Cleansing frequently enough for my scalp and hair has made the biggest difference. My scalp and hair are mu h happier with every 2 days than stretching washes out longer.
Thank you for covering curly hair types!! New subscriber
My hair breakage improved dramatically when I reintroduced silicones back into my routine. I have to be careful about weigh down but if I keep them to rinse out conditioners and masks and detangling sprays they help me retain so much more hair by protecting me from breakage.
Amazing 🙌🏻🙌🏻
I am currently silicone free and my hair has become a wreck, just curious as to what products you are using, I am looking at introducing back into my routine but trying to stay away from hair weigh down from some products
@@aprilb2733 my favorites are the Amika soul food mask for a rinse out conditioner and the wizard primer for detangling post wash. I also like the herbal essences argan oil conditioner when I want something a little lighter than the mask. I pair the wizard with a silicone free leave in conditioner from Maui Moisture. My hair is extremely fine but dense and this combo helped me take my hair from armpit length to waist length in about a year because I was able to FINALLY stop the breakage problems while not weighing my hair down. I also should note gentle daily detangling is key- I also switched from wet brushes and tangle teezers to using only a wooden wide tooth comb and a Tek wooden hairbrush around new year. Those changes have also further reduced breakage for me.
@@thewooflingdiva thank you, I have been wondering about the amika soul food mask, and I literally just picked up the herbal essence bio renew argan oil conditioner to try as my hair all of a sudden over the last month has gone hay wire and i think maybe a lil too much protein. my hair is fine and on the thinner side so giving the argan oil conditioner a try this weekend. I do like some volume to my hair but right now I need to get it back better health. and my hair does weigh down easily. I like shine and bounce and definitely have not had that lately. I will have to check into the wizard primer and maui moisture leave in again thank you.
This is definitely a trigger topic in the curly hair community. My scalp does not do well with silicones anywhere near it, but I do like to use them as a finishing product. ie Verb Ghost Oil.
Well you typically don't apply silicones to the scalp. They're in conditioners, not shampoos. And if that's your concern, then clarify with a sulfate every so often to remove any silicones hanging around. Curly community is full of gate-keepers and rules. Everyone has different hair and preferences and CGM rules and Facebook groups can be super toxic.
You are absolutely right, do what works best for you.
I love silicones.
I tried the CGM for two years and it just wasn't leaving my hair feeling manageable. Also, by day two, my hair and scalp felt disgusting from all of the extra oils that I had to apply to calm frizz and keep my ends from tangling.
Since reintroducing silicones, my hair is super healthy, my curls look amazing, and I can go 5 days between washes. My coarse, tangle prone hair loves silicones, and I'm never going back.
Heyyyyyy :) what are some of your fav silicone curly products ! I’m introducing them back into my routine after years of CGM
@@julieo5993 garnier fructis sleek & shine leave in conditioner. It's super moisturizing,smells amazing, and provides heat protection for diffusing. Best leave in I've ever used and works well with all products. I use whatever gel and cream I have laying around. After my hair is completely dry, I use John Frieda frizz ease extra strength serum to seal my curls, provide shine, and scrunch out any crunch. Beautiful results.
@@DianaBecker1 thank you Diana 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😊😊
Love you and your videos!!! As a curly hair girl who has done ALOT of research my issue with silicones is not that they weigh my hair down but they affect the definition of my curls. This is why I will only use them sporadically. The other claim with silicones and curly hair is that they block hydration of the curls. Not really the case for me but another thought. Just a CG perspective 😀
What products do u like? Certain cones like amodimethicone are lighter and water soluble and might not affect curls. I have wavy hair, not sure what’s best. Looking for recommendations
I love your new vases
No hate im curly haired and 100% open to hearing you out and trying this ❤️ I haven’t used silicones in years but you’ve kind of got me interested so I’m give it a try. Wish me luck 🍀 if all goes wrong I’ll just go back to silicone free
well....what's the verdict?
@@redlikewineagain697 after years of not using them I switched back to silicones and sulphates the past year and I’m honestly a lot happier with my hair. It’s look better than it has the past several years of using “natural” products.
* I don’t want to rant but everything has changed my hair is actually growing again
I appreciate your research and HONEST evaluation, good and bad.
This demonization of silicones has been around for years. It’s very strange, but some people are so passionate in their belief all silicones are to be avoided, it’s kinda like politics. To me, it’s not worth arguing with anyone about, but silicones, as long as I regularly clarify, helps make my dry, thick, frizzy, curly hair much more manageable. I’ve never understood the anti-silicones stance. Great vid, Abbey, but will this convince the anti-silicones crowd? Hope so, but doubt it!
I read a bunch of stuff online about silicones, and i thought i had to cut them out too. My conditioner has dimethicone, but now i know i just have to use a clarifying shampoo regularly to get rid of buildup. Convinced me
Thank you! This helped clear things up so much.
Thanks for this video! I think there’s definitely a weird polarization in the beauty community that you either have to use all “natural ingredients” or you should stay away from them. But I think your videos prove that both can be true and you should just listen to your hair. Sometimes I put oils in my hair as a deep conditioning mask and sometimes I use a gloss with silicones. Both are good options and we can all live in the middle instead of the extremes in order to achieve healthy hair. 👍🏾
Thank you a million times for this video, I have been waiting for a video like this, very informative.
I started avoiding silicones many years ago when I used a silicone heavy conditioner and it really weighed my hair down - it looked stringy as soon as it had dried! I wrongly blamed the silicones.
Now I know better ... one of my favorite leave in sprays is amodimethicone heavy! It's not silicones in general that are a problem, it's the exact ones and the formulation. If a formulation is right for your hair, any silicones in it will be helping, not hurting.
By the way, dimethicone comes in different weights, from super light to quite heavy. The INCI doesn't tell you which weight was used. Again, you need to judge the entire product, not just one ingredient.
What is the leave in called please?
Well said👍👍
@@natmya243 I'm afraid it won't help, as it's a really old product, from the 1990s, called something like Aussie (brand) vitamins for the hair. The vitamin bit is b.s., but the spray was quite good.
If you want a very simple amodimethicone spray, don't just look at leave in conditioners ... the detangling spray I bought for my kids turns out to be a great leave in conditioner!
@@lizcademy4809 Thank you, please could you tell me the name of the detangler you bought for your kids? I promise I am not just being lazy, I have looked at so many different things for so long and my brains are just fried with it all🤯
@@natmya243 It was one from L'Oreal, again very old.
The easiest way to find a good product is to check the ingredients list. Amodimethicone should be fairly close to the top.
To deal with a fried brain :) set up a note on your phone with a list of good ingredients, things that you want to try or you know work well for you. Then check the product ingredients against your list.
Hair is dead like nails. It can't appreciate silicone free stuff like our skin.. i was silicone free for 6 yes.. i am getting silicone back now ❤
Recently picked up the Moroccan light oil from Sephora to help tame the frizz on my fine wavy hair, and it is working nice.
Thanks for a great video. I only use silicone products when needed since I have curly hair. I prefer using shampoo over cowashing.
This was so helpful!
Thank you so much Abbey, you did real research. Unlike so many of us
Silicones can provide ‘Slip’, shine and protection from heat and the elements. They prevent excessive color loss and seal the hair surface controlling water loss and absorption. The downside is they can build up if over used or if several types are used In conjunction with other ingredients and this can leave the hair feeling ‘waxy’. I don’t like them for the most part in my hair because I tend to get scalp eruptions or pimples when they are present.
Yes!!! 👏👏👏👏 I went anti silicones few years ago and avoided them since but my hair felt lush whenever I used them! So silly they feel like something so bad for your hair?! Thanks chick! Xxx
I am a testament to the power of silicones in hair care! 🙋🏻♀️
Several years ago I bought the Curly Girl book, which I think was the main reason why so many curly hair people stopped using silicones was because that book suggested it (among other bad ideas), and while I was never fully on board with co-washing, I was using all natural, sulfate-free shampoos that made my hair worse than ever (I was BORN with frizzy, unruly, coarse hair) and all natural leave in products with oils didn’t seem to do much to help me, because I was washing my hair more often to reduce the oil build up, and sulfate-free shampoos were very stripping to my hair. Now I use products with silicones every wash day (including silicones on my rinse out and leave in conditioner) and my hair has recovered a lot. I feel like the Curly Girl book, while well intentioned, I’m sure, was actually the worst thing that ever happened to frizzy, curly hair care. It almost ruined my hair.
I thought I was the only person going through this. everyone seemed so happy about the no silicone no sulfate curly girl method that I did not understood why my hair would still end up being dry and not growing past a certain length
I remember when they blamed Deva Curl for ruining their hair. It was probably the lack of silicones
Abbey I just love your spirit and pragmatic way of discussing subject matter. Hope you are getting good and nested in your new home:)
I LOVE silicones! It’s in all my haircare products 🤗 I have very fine hair and silicones help keep my hair looking it’s best. They prevent nasty tangles, improves shine, manageability, makes hair look and feel fuller with more volume and I can brush through my hair easier. My hair serum cuts my blow dry time in half! Been using for years and clarify twice a month and have happy hair :) thank you for this video!
thats great, being curious what serum or products are using, going to be introducing them back into my routine as hair is a wreck without
I went silicone free for a time years ago and my hair was always dry but also sticky, tangled, breaking, dull and just an overall birds nest situation. I think the conditioning agents in silicone free conditioners are very heavy and hard to remove - they build up and coat the hair and the corresponding shampoos aren’t able to remove it. That was my experience anyway.
Just like my current hair situationen 😢.... and I'm silicone free.
I used to do the curly girl method back in 2019 until early 2020 (my hair had a natural wave and I had my partner chop my hair to chin length) I avoided sulphates and silicones up to march 2020. I also avoided chemical hair dyes cause of a nasty reaction but when my greys started coming thru I tried henna which nuked my waves from orbit (my hair was 2a/2b after a couple of henna treatments my hair went to 1c type) and a lack of silicones made my hair look like I'd been dragged thru a bush backwards and always greasy at the roots. So I purchased some ogx shampoo and conditioner and my hair appeared to look a lot better, my hair is now near waist length. I love silicones cause they protect hair from heat damage and UV damage. My theory is if you use an spf for your skin and face then silicones are a somewhat protection against UV for your hair. I use silicone free hair masks and other hair products but some of my products do contain silicones.if silicones were so bad companies wouldn't use them
Thank you for the research. So so informative. Appreciate it.
Could you do a video on best silicones for different hairtypes ?
or which silicone suits which hair concern? :D
I feel it would be very educational and there could also be an option for a part two with product recommendations!
also a video on how to find the most effective heat protection product
@@amyamy8177 Afope has a video on this topic, she is a hair scientist :)
Abbey can you show us an updated routine on how you use K18? Do you use conditioner after applying it now? Thanks ❤️
This is a super helpful video!
I love your Videos! And bought already so many products, that you recommend- what all works great ! I trust your opinion 100% !
About silicone- actually never really cared about it. As I do use high end products- most of the time I do trust the Ingredients list as I do believe- the stuff is there for a reason. But must say - now I’m so relaxed about it as I won’t be looking for silicone free products! ❤️
Oh the big thing in curly circles is that silicone is really hard to remove, so you need to use super harsh cleansers to get it off, which curly hair generally doesn't like because it's naturally drier. (what with the oils having a harder time getting down the hair shaft vs straight hair) This has long since been debunked because even relatively mild cleansers remove silicones, but CGM purists and clean beauty freaks have just doubled down and will even tell you that silicones will NEVER come off your hair, and you essentially have to CUT them off your hair. So... yeah... big bag of nonsense.
What’s funny is the polyquats companies are using to replace silicone are the ones super hard to remove. I’d take silicone over those any day!
When I researched this, it sounded like early silicones in products were hard to remove, but the silicones that are used today are not hard to remove.
My thick, high porosity, curly hair looooves oils, I do use sulfates approx every 3 washes. I've been silicone free for a few years now, but I've been tempted to incorporate them to my routine to help seal my cuticle and make my curls last longer, after this video I think I will :)
Love me some silicones! There’s only one type of dimethicone that doesn’t really agree with my hair.
I have curly hair. Love me some amodimethicone, the PG/PEG silicones, phenyltrimethicone for shine.
And I agree with you re the curly hair myths -what do people think natural butters and oils do? They form a film over the hair and resist being washed out.
And THANK YOU for saying that high porosity hair equals damaged hair. There’s such a mystique in the curly hair community regarding porosity.
I went silicone free because they said it was good for curly hair. After trying and trying for 2 years. I finally gave in and added a silicone leave in treatment and I my hair hasn't been this soft or healthy looking in forever 😭💖
what is the name of the treatment you used please?
Thank you so much! Your channel is such a need 🙏🏽
Your videos have really helped me, thank you
My hair was shinier when I was using silicone free conditioners in my washing routine. I was never truely silicone free as I did use them for heat styling and leave ins. But since I bleached my hair, my hair is loving silicones.
I do find I get build up really easily.
Abbey will you please do a lip SPF review!
Yes! My coarse curly/wavy hair loves silicones! Once I reintroduced them back into my routine my curls just spring up and get a shine that’s really hard to get otherwise.
What products do you like? I have wavy hair too, I use silicones but not sure what’s best to enhance my waves
I like amika the cure shampoo and conditioner and the morrocan oil styling cream. My hair does really well with it.
And then a gel on top of that.
Could you do a review of the JVN hair care products? :) super curious to see your opinion!
I second this!
I've been silicone-free for more than ten years and I'm currently considering buying the Redken ABC line which has a lot of silicones.... but meh, I'm still not ready. I'm still scared (scare tactic is so true!) that my hair will look worse afterwards. 😭
Thanks for this video. I have curly hair and have been using silicone free products (but not curly girl method). I have been thinking about using a gel product with silicone but wasn't sure. I knew you would have a video on this. I feel good about trying the product now!
Yo Abbey, I just wanna see thanks for this vid. I’ve been growing my hair out since 2020 and man, trying to figure out what’s best for it and make it look great has been so tough. There have been times where my hair looks gorgeous and then times when it looks like garbage. I have 1C, thick af, and coarse af hair, so it can be a huge frizzy mess and tangly if I don’t do things right.
And strangely enough, my hair has always looked best when using silicones. There seriously is fear mongering about products with them and it’s wild.
I’ve tried going without them multiple times and it never ends well. I’m gonna go back to my silicone conditioner and Olaplex 6 because I tried once again to go no silicone and whew, not good lol.
The quest for hair as good as Sephiroth from FF7 continues!!!
I stopped using silicones for a month and I just added silicone back into my routine and my hair is so healthy and grow 4 inches. Thank you Abby
Thanks Abbey!!!
Appreciate your videos and time you take to do your research ❤
My curly hair has been suffering lately (purely CGM for a couple of years). I used a silicone conditioner this morning for the first time in a long time and my hair felt instantly smoother and there were more spirals forming in my hair without putting in any effort other than combing my fingers through it. The product contains dimethicone and my hair felt SO MUCH lighter than the curly girl approved treatment I was using which left my hair feeling heavy, rubbery and less workable after washing out...
I went silicone free with blonde hair it was a complete nightmare I'm using silicone in my hair every wash thanks so much Abbey!!!!
Love this and just went back and watched the video on sulfates! My problem in finding haircare products is finding ones without things I want to avoid (like pthalates, artificial fragrance, PEGs, and parabens because they are endocrine disruptors and mess with your hormones), but still have sulfates and silicones because I do want those!! Do companies really have to have this all or nothing mentality?? It's so frustrating!
You should look into lab muffins video/blog post about parabens. They are not dangerous. That study has been wildly misinterpreted.
@@thebeasidethere are other things this person mentioned that can be harmful for the skin, though, such as fragrances, and I have the exact same problem. I would like to reintroduce silicones into my hair routine, I know my hair likes them, but my scalp and skin do not like a lot of the other ingredients (fragrance is one of them) that often go along with them. And I always prioritize my skin because allergic reactions and irritation are much worse to me than slightly less shiny or simply slightly more ‘weighed down’ hair. I also tolerate certain fragranced products that only go on the lengths of my hair if they are from organic hair care brands, depending on what the fragrance is (it really does depend, because certain essential oils can also be irritating), but I have yet to find a hair mask for example that has silicones and does not have ingredients that are irritating for my skin. That being said, I don’t heat style my hair besides sometimes blow drying it from quite a distance, I don’t colour it, I don’t wear it in tight hairstyles etc. and my hair is naturally pin straight and pretty silky, so I probably don’t need silicones as much as some other people might, so I don’t hugely miss them. I find that a bit of Argan oil gets me very similar if not the same results. My hair is just a bit more weighed down perhaps, but as I say it is pin straight anyhow and unless I wanted to heat style it frequently it would be that way regardless of the products I use, so it doesn’t make a huge difference to me. I would honestly love to use them though, if they weren’t always paired with ingredients that my skin absolutely does not tolerate (even in masks, conditioners, and styling products that do not touch my scalp, the hair still touches my skin, such as the skin of my back, and my skin is so sensitive that it does react from that alone).
You killed it
I stopped using the branded Moroccanoil over a year ago because my hairdresser thought it stopped the bleach taking to my hair when I wanted highlights- take note that my hair is dyed brown/black! I’d been using said product for yearsss and nothing compared to it, but I stopped using anyway. Big mistake! My hair began to get horribly dry and knotty again, so thought I’d give the old MO another go as I know that my hair LOVES it and I couldn’t find a decent dupe, low and behold it’s been SO much easier to brush and blow dry lately, also so shiny! I think when you find something that your hair loves and it works for you, don’t give it up! Ignore all the scaremongering!
I have curly hair and have been silicone free for a long time mainly because I had to stop using sulfates (SLS / SLES) as I realized I am allergic, so stopping silicone use came naturally after that, then came the curly girl method demonizing silicones - I have been considering using silicones again but I'm worried about potential buildup since I don't use sulfates. I have read that shampoos with cocamidopropyl betaine can remove silicones so it makes me lean more into potentially wanting to use them. Side note - I went to a hair dresser once who told me that the only way to get silicones out of the hair was to cut them out because they are like little ‘wax beads’ that jam their way into your cuticle and stay there forever and the more I think about that - wouldn’t some people want that ? to permanately smooth out the cuticle ? lol
I know this video is from a year ago, but I think you may have just helped me discover what happened to my hair. I have long fine hair, but lots of it. I recently added a silicone free shampoo to my rotation (I like to rotate through 2-3 different shampoo/conditioners). My hair has been so nice and healthy looking for a few years, but since adding this silicone free shampoo, I have had major fallout and breakage and my hair is just there. No style even though I haven’t changed how I style or the styling products. I thought maybe it was hormones or maybe my hairdryer is not controlling heat as well. But now I bet it’s this shampoo!
I'm not opposed to silicones but I only use them in my heat protectant because using multiple products with silicones does something weird to the definition of my natural waves, even though I use a sulfate shampoo. I found that cutting silicones out of my conditioner gave me a real look at how my hair looked when washed and conditioned only. I focused on improving my hair health before trying out styling products. I wanted genuinely healthy hair and persevered and got there. My virgin hair was low porosity apart from the ends and the very front where I have more UV damage so I didn't need much help sealing my cuticle. I prefer using protein products and olaplex 0 and 3 to fill in any chips/gaps in the cuticle or to coat the shaft with a protective barrier. Polyquats do that too. I will say that a lot of cheap conditioners rely more on silicones than other beneficial ingredients to give that silky feeling so switching to an affordable silicone free conditioner was so satisfying because there's space for other great ingredients in the formula and after a while my hair got that silky feeling and shine naturally without silicones. If you have a larger budget there are certainly great higher end formulas with silicones in them but it's slim pickings for great cheap formulas with silicones imo. Also I think a reason a lot of curlies avoid silicones is because curls and waves typically look the most defined when styled wet and then diffised on low heat to dry the hair fast and lock in the shape in a gel cast. An ingredient that repels water makes that more difficult, even if it is beneficial for reducing hair swelling.
I love my silicones!!! I have fine hair that tangles super easy so I need silicones to add some slip when I brush it!! I hate that people demonize them!
So glad I watched this!! After going silicone free my hair has not been the same (in a bad way).
I actually never heard of silicones in hair care. I thought they were just in makeup primers, I had no idea about them having anything to do with hair and hence I never looked at anything other the SLS in hair products
I could watch you all day lol. This was the video I needed thank you so much!! I would love if you could recommend some products for thin very fine and dry hair. Im also going through a lot of hair loss.
Thank you for the informative video! I’m a PhD student currently and SO ecstatic that you’re diving into real peer reviewed research to debunk these claims.
One thought, I’m very curious to hear your thoughts on these types of ingredients in skincare products. I feel like silicones are demonized there as well, and I don’t know if there’s any basis to that. If you need video ideas, maybe that’s another direction you can take these deep dives?
Love that idea!
Thank you so very much for all the information you offer on your channel. I truly appreciate the level of research and effort you put into each video. I wish there was an easy way to search within the UA-cam comments from my phone... my apologies if you've already answered this question... do you have specific product recommendations for very thin, fine hair? Also, do you have any info on (significant) hair loss after Covid? Again, Thank you so much 💓
My hair is very tangly and frizzy without silicones. And much more breakage from brushing
I am sooo glad we've seemingly entered the era of parsing out the facts and determining how that information best applies to individual people instead of just categorically saying certain things are bad. I need silicones for detangling!!! Makes the biggest difference for sure.
I like silicones one my straight, fine hair. I like to spray a little Mane ‘n Tale detangling spray on the back of my head and then gently brush through.
Silicones are the best in my opinion! I have dry tangled hair and I need those silicones!
So in short: we can use silicones as long as we use a good clearifying shampoo so now and then? So informative this video, thank you so much! I have thin wavy hair and followed the cg method for about 1 year. But my hair lost shine and still felt and showed dry with no volume. From now on I'll start using silicones again. You sure would have a perfect video about it... but can I ask you here what products you would recommend for thin wavy hair who desperate needs to start with silicones again? Thank you in advance!