Lori’s a lime lover: I use V05 Kiwi Lime Clarifying Shampoo twice a week. I follow up with V05 Kiwi Lime matching conditioner. Do I need to get my hair trimmed more often because I use this V05 2x a week? Someone told me I will get long-term damage from using a clarifying shampoo. This worries me because I’m trying to grow my hair.
The Right Brain responds:
As we’ve blogged before, there are only a few basic types of shampoos and clarifying shampoos fall into the deep cleansing/volumizing category.
Pros and cons of clarifying
These formulas tend to contain higher concentrations of cleansing ingredients and fewer conditioning agents. The advantage is that they give you squeaky clean hair that’s free of all the styling gunk and silicone residues that may have built up over time. The disadvantage is that they may dry out your hair a bit if you over use them. Of course, if you’re using a conditioner after shampooing, as you said you are, you probably won’t have a problem. But the VO5 conditioner is a relatively light weight formula; if you feel your hair needs more moisture, use a more premium conditioner that contains a silicone.
The Beauty Brains bottom line
If you’re clarifying twice a week and you’re using a conditioner each time, you should not see a big increase in split ends. VO5 is tough to beat for basic cleansing, but if your tresses are stressed, you should consider using a more moisturizing shampoo/conditioner system.
What do YOU think? Do you feel you need to use a special shampoo to get rid of buildup on your hair? Leave a clarifying for the rest of the Beauty Brains community.
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Perhaps these type of clarifying shampoos should only be used cautiously (once a week) to reduce buildup as oopposed to a daily clarifying treatment, to avoid dryin out hair and causing damage?
Split ends are most often caused by handling: to grow your hair long, don’t use heat treatment OF ANY KIND, comb instead of brushing, wear it up as often as you can, and don’t bleach or color it (henna is generally gentler but compeltely permanent).
If you do these things, you can drop down your trimming frequency as well. Once every six months will be fine. When I was trying to grow my hair and got it trimmed every six weeks, I saw no growth at all for years and was told with much sympathy that “some women can’t grow it like that, honey.”
It’s down to the middle of my thighs, now. And it’s dry, coarse, and can be fragile.
Handling is everything when it comes to growing hair. Even the conditioner you use should be geared to maknig your hair as “friction-free” as possible, easy to comb and not tangly.
I would not use a clarifying shampoo more than once a week or once every 2 weeks because my hair is thin and fine. I usually use Neutrogena Anti-Resudue because then my hair doesn’t look overwashed. Most of the clarifying shampoos are too harsh for fine hair. They even bother my scalp and make my hair fall out. I prefer to avoid shampoos with silicone in them.
I received a sample of the “Made from Earth” Tea & Protein Herbal Shampoo from Sephora, when I bought another Made from Earth skin product. I couldn’t believe it when I tried it. It’s wonderful, it smells great (my boyfriend loved it), it got my hair really clean and left it soft and with some body, not limp and greasy feeling. I will only use Made from Earth products from now on, they really are the best for your health. Its cheaper to buy on the madefromearth.com website though, than actually going into sephora…I guess sephora raises their prices….