Look at the Label: Macadamia Natural Oil Healing Oil Treatment
Posted Dec 27 2011 1:01am
Nouveau Cheap says that Macadamia Natural Oil Healing Oil Treatment makes her hair soft and shiny. But what makes this nut cracker so sweet? Please take a moment to savor that clever Christmas pun; then, let’s look at the label!
Dimethicone, Cyclomethicone Silicones that smooth hair and make it shiny. Dimethicone is the CLASSIC hair shine enhancer and it’s mixed with Cyclomethicone to make it more spreadable. The Cyclomethicone evaporates leaving behind a light coating of dimethicone. These are the “work horse” ingredients that make deliver the treatment benefits of this product.
Tocopheryl Acetate This is Vitamin E. It can have a lubricating effect on hair but it’s likely that it’s used at very low levels here. It might be added to help protect the natural oils from oxidizing.
Macadamia Temifolia Seed Oil The product is named after this ingredient yet it appears after Tocopheryl Acetate which is typically used at very low levels. I’d guess that there’s less than 1% of this oil in this formula which, again, makes it likely that the silicones are really responsible for the product’s smoothing and softening effect.
Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil Argan oil is the darling of the cosmetic industry at the moment. Does it do anything in this formula? See also Macadamia oil.
Parfum/Fragrance Supposedly this product smells “divine.”
Benzyl Salicylate, Hexylcinnamal, Butylphenyl Methypropional, Coumarin, Linalool, Limonene Allergens that are present in trace amounts in the fragrance. These must be listed by law.
Nouveau Cheap says that Macadamia Natural Oil Healing Oil Treatment makes her hair soft and shiny. But what makes this nut cracker so sweet? Please take a moment to savor that clever Christmas pun; then, let’s look at the label!
Dimethicone, Cyclomethicone
Silicones that smooth hair and make it shiny. Dimethicone is the CLASSIC hair shine enhancer and it’s mixed with Cyclomethicone to make it more spreadable. The Cyclomethicone evaporates leaving behind a light coating of dimethicone. These are the “work horse” ingredients that make deliver the treatment benefits of this product.
Tocopheryl Acetate
This is Vitamin E. It can have a lubricating effect on hair but it’s likely that it’s used at very low levels here. It might be added to help protect the natural oils from oxidizing.
Macadamia Temifolia Seed Oil
The product is named after this ingredient yet it appears after Tocopheryl Acetate which is typically used at very low levels. I’d guess that there’s less than 1% of this oil in this formula which, again, makes it likely that the silicones are really responsible for the product’s smoothing and softening effect.
Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil
Argan oil is the darling of the cosmetic industry at the moment. Does it do anything in this formula? See also Macadamia oil.
Parfum/Fragrance
Supposedly this product smells “divine.”
Benzyl Salicylate, Hexylcinnamal, Butylphenyl Methypropional, Coumarin, Linalool, Limonene
Allergens that are present in trace amounts in the fragrance. These must be listed by law.
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