Despite my love for all things Paul Mitchell, I didn’t much care for this daily treatment. I bought it because I wanted something that would “protect” my hair (because I use a flat iron an awful lot), but this treatment made my hair sort of limp, and it gave my hair a sort of tacky feeling (not tacky=poor taste but tacky=slightly sticky). This is not my usual experience with siliconey products — most of the time, siliconey products give my hair a nice silky texture. So I was very disappointed. I got suckered in to this — I didn’t even buy a travel size bottle to test it out, and now I don’t care for it very much and I have this giant bottle sitting on bathroom vanity. Sigh.
I’m actually not all that convinced I “need” to protect my hair from a flat iron — the flat iron did start drying out my hair when I first started using it almost every day, but I’ve since switched to only using it on the lowest possible setting, and my hair seems a little drier than not flat-ironing at all, but I use a deep conditioner once a week and a pretty moisturizing conditioner every day, so I think my hair will be okay . . .
(To my knowledge, Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Daily Treatment is neither organic nor vegan.)
Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Daily Treatment (10.14oz) is available for $12.99 from Drugstore.com.
Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Quaternium 91, Cetrimonium Methosulfate, Cetrimonium Methosulfate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Amodimethicone, Trideceth 12, Cetrimonium Chloride, Trimethylsiloxyamodimethicone, C11-15 Pareth 7, C12-16 Pareth 9, Glycerin, Polyquaternium 37, Propylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate, PPG 1 Trideceth 6, Ceteareth 20, Cetyl Esters, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein PG-Propyl Silanetriol, Triethyl Citrate, Bisamino PEG/PPG 41/3 Aminoethyl PG Propyl Dimethicone, Algae/Aloe Barbadensis Leaf/Anthemis Nobilis/Lawsonia Inermis, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba), Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary), PEG 12 Dimethicone, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Fragrance (Parfum), Citric Acid, Tetrasodium EDTA, DMDM Hydantoin, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate.
Categories : 1/5 stars, Paul Mitchell, cruelty free, hair
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kathy
January 15th, 2008 at 10:38 am
sorry that this is totally off topic from your post, but i really would like to know your two cents on the recent clorox acquisition of burts bees. there appears to be a move for clorox to become more green, specifically with their new “green works” line of more natural ingredients. im not sure how i feel about burts bees, a cruelty free company, now being a subsidiary of a toxic chemical company that also does a lot of animal testing.
Emily
January 19th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Hi Kathy,
Welcome to my blog! Also, it’s no problem that your question is off topic from my post! I’m very happy to post my two cents on the Burt’s Bees acquisition.
Basically I’m appalled. I can’t believe Burt’s Bees is giving up its not-testing-on-animals stance (well, it has never made sure to only buy cruelty-free ingredients, so it’s always been kind of lackluster on the not-testing-on-animals front) and is being bought by Clorox. It would be one thing if it agreed to keep not testing on animals, and just be owned by Clorox, but no, it’s not doing that, it’s going straight to the dark side. Yuck.
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