Cleansing Your Hair vs Using Shampoo

Bloomfield Bath Hair Care Line

What's the difference between cleaning your hair with shampoo and cleaning it with a cleanser? The difference is shampoos dry your hair out. Shampoos are made with surfactants, that surrounds the oils in your hair and allows it to be rinsed away. Thus, causing your hair to become dry and brittle. Cleansing Conditioners are products that cleans your hair without stripping away the natural oils needed to keep your hair strong and healthy. Cleansers essentially conditions your hair will cleaning it. 

  We all grew up thinking shampoos should smell good, feel thick and make lots of bubbles. In order for this to happen, a few key ingredients has to be added. To clean the hair/scalp most shampoos contains an alkly benzene sulfate, tetrasodium EDTA is added to bind with the calcium and magnesium. This will rinse out of your hair without making scum, cocamide (PEG-5, DEA, MEA or TEA) to give the shampoo thickness and make the bubbles. And preservatives and fragrances are added as well. Each shampoo product may have their own variation of these ingredients or other elements maybe added. The result in the end is usually the same, hair that is stiff, fragile and may even have breakage. For those of you who have dry hair, using shampoo products is only making it worse. Dry hair will break easily, resulting in hair loss, split ends and of course it will damage your hair. 

Natural Cleansing Conditioners cleans and conditions your hair without the use of surfactants, detergents, or chemicals. They may contain ingredients such as amino acids to increase moisture levels, phytantroil for preventing split ends and reduce the damage cause by daily combing or heat, Vitamin C to help protect the hair against UV rays, and panthenol to help protect the hair from becoming frail or weak. Most natural cleansers contains essential oils and/or natural preservatives so the cleanser can smell good. Using cleansing conditioners will nourish your hair while cleaning without drying it out. 

+Bloomfield Bath's Cleansing Conditioner

So skip the "poo" and clean your hair and scalp with a good conditioner. Your hair will will thank you for it. 

Works for all hair types

Product Shelf Life

Bloomfield Bath uses unrefined, organic ingredients.

Have you ever wonder, how long will my shampoo or lotion last? What will happen if I use my product after its expiration date? How can I find out the expiration date? These are all great questions to ask when you are using anything on your skin. The shelf life of a product is basically the time a product is usable or fit for consumption. Usually after this time that product will not be as effective. Typically, if you use a product after it has expired, best case scenario, it just stops doing what it should do or it can change how it looks or feels. On the off side, it could also, cause skin irritations or infections.  Therefore, I am going to explain how you can find out what is the expiration date on your body products. Below are examples of how the shelf life of products can be displayed on their containers. These pictures show "12M" on an open jar. Some containers will have 6,24 or 36M. the "M" stands for months. So the picture below is telling their consumers these products will be best if used in twelve months from period after opening (PAO). PAO is the time after the container has been opened.  

                         

 When the items are exposed to light and air, bacteria can begin to break down the benefits of the products and you will want to use the items within the PAO time frame. Even if you do not open your products heat and humidity can also reduce practicality of the products. Generally some products, unopened, can be good for 2-3 years. Organic and natural products have a shelf life of about six months. This is probably because of the absence of preservatives. If your product does not have the above image or "use by date" on the back of the container, you can assume the expiration date is presumably twelve months. You can also contact the company directly to get the PAO date or visit this website, 
CheckCosmetic.net   

Bloomfield Bath does use vegetable base preservative in their products. Thus, giving many of the items a longer shelf life. You can read all about Bloomfield Bath's ingredients here.

 Now check the back, bottom, or inside of your containers for the shelf life of your products to protect your skin. If your product is expired replace it. Check out my website to order natural, handmade hair, face, and body products today?