Lye in my conditioner?!!!!!

[chelseatiara]

So upon reading several reviews i decided to buy herbal essences hello hydration conditioner. I started using it as a cowash and it smelled great until i put in on my hair. then it smelled like relaxer. i read the ingredients and saw Sodium Hydroxide on the list! Im freaking out! apparently the one i have formula is different from the original im worried because i cant find my neutralizing shampoo...

 

[iri9109]

its ok...idk why it smelled like relaxer, but the sodium hydroxide in there is just as a pH adjuster...its actually used in a lot of hair products...the amount and concentration is not going to relax your hair...&you dont need to neutralize.

 

[chelseatiara]

but my hair smells terrible ugh...

 

[Embyra]

THE NATURAL HAVEN: Sodium Hydroxide: Lye is always lye or is that a lie?

 

[Poopiedo]

The smell just may not agree with you but the concentration of lye is not strong enough to give a touch up or anything. Maybe you just have a fine tuned sense of smell.

Some shampoos also contain sodium hydroxide.

 

[chelseatiara]

i have a headache but thanks for the info....

 

[Jaane]

I have nothing to add regarding your question about the lye but I can say I've noticed a difference in HE Totally Twisted (the purple one). I bought some a few days ago and it smells completely different! It also makes my hair feel stripped (which it didn't before), so I'm kind of bummed. I don't have the old bottle to compare the ingredients but something is definitely different. A part of me wanted to take it back to the store or something, but I'll probably just use it to cowash (mixed with another conditioner). I haven't used the Hello Hydration that I bought at the same time, but now I'm wary.

Did anyone have any similar experience?

 

[iri9109]

I have nothing to add regarding your question about the lye but I can say I've noticed a difference in HE Totally Twisted (the purple one). I bought some a few days ago and it smells completely different! It also makes my hair feel stripped (which it didn't before), so I'm kind of bummed. I don't have the old bottle to compare the ingredients but something is definitely different. A part of me wanted to take it back to the store or something, but I'll probably just use it to cowash (mixed with another conditioner). I haven't used the Hello Hydration that I bought at the same time, but now I'm wary.

Did anyone have any similar experience?

i havent used either in months, but i saw a commercial the other day and they reformulated it and put it in new bottles...now i probably wont be trying it...i hate when companies mess up a good thing...

 

[4everbeautifull1]

This is interesting because I just purchased another bottle of the HE HH and used it today and it is definitely different than the bottle I just finished. My hair was not as moisturized with todays wash as it was with yesterdays. I am gonna take a look at the old bottle and the new one and see what the difference is.

 

[4everbeautifull1]

So, the ingredients are a little different as well as rearranged.

My old bottle's ingredients: water, stearyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, stearamidopropyl dimethylamine, vanilla planifolia fruit extract, cocos nucifera (coconut) fruit extract, glutamic acid, fragrance, bis-aminopropyl, dimethicone, benzyl alcohol, edta, propylene glycol, methylchloroisothiazolinone, methylisothiazolinone, citric acid, blue 1.

My new bottle's ingredients: water/eau, stearyl alcohol, behentrimonium chloride, cetyl alcohol, bis-aminopropyl dimethicone, cocos nucifera (coconut) fruit extract, orchis mascula flower extract, zea mays (corn) silk extract, fragrance/parfum, benzyl alcohol, disodium edta, sodium hydroxide, methylchloroisothiazolinone, methylisothiazolinone, blue 1.

 

[Dposh167]

yea this question always comes up every single year.
Gymfreak explained it best in one thread, which i am def. not looking for cuz it was a long time ago. But basically, the sodium hydroxide in your conditioner is not the same active ingredient as in relaxer. It takes other chemicals and formulas to create what u know as a relaxer. It was a whole lot of science behind it but the bottom line is, dont fret about it.

now if u think that ur bottle actually smells like relaxer...now that's something different. But if you're mind is being psyched into thinking u smell it, just because u see that ingredient on the back then don't