Synthetic inorganic polymers, available in different forms (liquids, emulsions, compounds, lubricants, resins, elastomers, plastics).

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These substances possess various properties: they are water repellent, antistatic, resistant to high temperatures and aging, chemically inert.

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Their versatility makes them usable in various sectors: for example, they are contained in toys, insulators, prostheses, sealings, molds also for food use and so on.

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Silicones are also used by the cosmetic industry, for their ability to increase the perfomances of cosmetic formulations.

 

Silicones are produced from silica, a silicon compound, a naturally occurring mineral on the planet.

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Since the nineties, they have been used more and more often in the production of cosmetics, especially to avoid dehydration and to make the skin and hair soft and silky.

(they say ...)

 

 form a film on the surface of skin and hair, which in the long run prevent normal oxygenation and hydration: water can not get out, but can not even enter.

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Same for the nutrients that go to take care of beauty and health.

 

The feeling of a velvety skin and smooth and disciplined hair is actually only apparent: the silicone film covers them but does not nourish them, as would an oil or vegetable butter.

 

It follows that, over time, these substances tend to occlude the pores and favor pimples, blackheads and millet grains.

 

 The hair, on the other hand, will tend to become floppy and heavy, dry and strongly dehydrated and will get dirty more easily.

 

Furthermore, silicones are not biodegradable.

 

These components can be identified within the INCI of a cosmetic for the suffixes -thicone, -xiloxane, -silanoil.

 

Cyclic silicones: their atoms are arranged according to a ring structure and have a lighter formula with less occlusive power.

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                          They evaporate in a short time.

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Here are some names: cyclohexasiloxane, cyclomethicone, cyclopentasiloxane.

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Dimethicone and Compounds: particularly heavy and greasy, are those that create more problems to skin and hair.

                                          They are not volatile.

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Here are some names: Dimethicone, Dimethiconol, Cetyl Dimethicone, Amodimethicone, Dimethicone copolyol.

 

 

So silicones should always be avoided are not absolutely good for our skin, let alone our hair!

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Instead you prefer oils and butters that in addition to making your hair shiny and beautiful nourish them from the inside and if your problem is the induction you prefer the homemade gels based on corn starch, rice, fenugreek, aloe gel,flaxseed gel etc...

 

 

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Mary

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