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Ladies,
I am really bad at understanding the concept of ceramides. I've read through all the ceramides challenges and posts/threads, but the idea still goes right over my head! Quick question for the slow and dim-witted--Can anyone help? Suppose I'm interested in this product with the following ingredients:
Ingredients:
Deionized Water , Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) , Cocos Nucifera Oil (Coconut) , Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter , Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil (Jojoba) , Olea Europaea Oil (Olive) , Vegetable Glycerin , Persea Gratissima Oil (Avocado) , Triticum Vulgare Oil (Wheatgerm) , Grapeseed Oil , Sorbitol Esters , Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract , Cetyl Esters , Yucca Filamentosa Extract , Vegetable Protein , Adansonia Digitata Extract (Baobab) , Panthenol (Vitamin B-5) , Rosemary Extract , Bamboo Extract , Tocopherol (Vitamin E)
I found this leave-in cream listed on one of the Ceramides challenges threads and decided to give it a try since it wasn't that expensive and I could get it from the Walgreen's right up the street from me. Here's my question--how do I know, from this above ingredient list, that this product contains ceramides? Which ingredient am I looking out for? I'm not a science buff and still very new to all this, please excuse my naïveté. I try not to bother you erudite ladies too much with my dumb questions, but I figure it's worth a shot every now and then... (Eventually the wisdom has got to rub off, lol)...
sal3w
Ingredients:
Deionized Water , Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) , Cocos Nucifera Oil (Coconut) , Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter , Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil (Jojoba) , Olea Europaea Oil (Olive) , Vegetable Glycerin , Persea Gratissima Oil (Avocado) , Triticum Vulgare Oil (Wheatgerm) , Grapeseed Oil , Sorbitol Esters , Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract , Cetyl Esters , Yucca Filamentosa Extract , Vegetable Protein , Adansonia Digitata Extract (Baobab) , Panthenol (Vitamin B-5) , Rosemary Extract , Bamboo Extract , Tocopherol (Vitamin E)
It is the wheatgerm oil and the grape seed oil that qualify it as a ceramide rich product.
There is a list in the ceramides challenge of ceramide ingredients, but I'll list what I remember here:
Sunflower oil
Safflower oil
Grapeseed oil
Hempseed oil
Wheatgerm oil
There are also lab synthesized ceramides, however I don't remember the names of them.
By the way that is the Shea Moisture Yucca and Baobab Thickening Growth Milk isn't it?
If it is I literally have whole lists of ingredients lists for commercial products stored in my memory. Oh dear
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or at least a more compatible mix. I'm seriously hurting, y'all. I'm so frustrated.
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I stopped trying to spiral my hair around the rod and simply rolled the hair onto it. it was much easier this way. I think this method will bring me more of a curl than a wave though. I'll know for sure in the AM!
