katfemme89
September 4th, 2012, 06:40 PM
Ok so this is really weird. Last night I washed my hair with a conditioner that I've only used once before, in my last COwash. It's some kind of little conditioner bottle that looks like it's from a hotel. It was given to me by a friend in a swap, with a bunch of other little hotel shampoos and lotions. I didn't plan on using any of the shampoos because I alternate between CO and WO, but this one bottle intrigued me because it said "sea kelp conditioner" but it must've come in a toiletries kit in the hotel with the ingredients on the outside of the kit, so there are no ingredients listed on the back of the bottle. I figured that would be interesting to try, so I did. Then I used it again last night, and also while my hair was still wet, I felt adventurous and decided to smooth on a little cocoa butter after I got done putting it on my skin. The ingredients in the cocoa butter are as follows:
Cocoa Butter, Aloe Vera Extract, Nonoxynol-10, Allantoin, Purified Water, Petrolatum, Paraffin Oil, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Isopropyl Myristate, Cetyl Alcohol, Polysorbate-20, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Methylparaben, Propylparaben, F.D. & C. Violet #4, F.D. & C. Yellow #5.
Now, today when I took my hair down out of the bun and started brushing it, I noticed that the color is several shades lighter. I mean, quite noticeably lighter. My hair has natural high and lowlights, the lowlights being chestnut brown before are now auburn, and the previously auburn highlights are now strawberry blonde. My husband even commented on it and asked if I'd highlighted it. I like the way it looks, but it disturbs me that something I put on my hair lightened it without me even knowing about it or consenting to it. It doesn't feel dried out or anything, so I dunno wtf happened.
Any ideas as to what's going on? I don't think it was the conditioner, because I did not have this result when I used it before this time. But how could it be the Cocoa Butter?!?!?!
Cocoa Butter, Aloe Vera Extract, Nonoxynol-10, Allantoin, Purified Water, Petrolatum, Paraffin Oil, Glyceryl Stearate SE, Isopropyl Myristate, Cetyl Alcohol, Polysorbate-20, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Methylparaben, Propylparaben, F.D. & C. Violet #4, F.D. & C. Yellow #5.
Now, today when I took my hair down out of the bun and started brushing it, I noticed that the color is several shades lighter. I mean, quite noticeably lighter. My hair has natural high and lowlights, the lowlights being chestnut brown before are now auburn, and the previously auburn highlights are now strawberry blonde. My husband even commented on it and asked if I'd highlighted it. I like the way it looks, but it disturbs me that something I put on my hair lightened it without me even knowing about it or consenting to it. It doesn't feel dried out or anything, so I dunno wtf happened.
Any ideas as to what's going on? I don't think it was the conditioner, because I did not have this result when I used it before this time. But how could it be the Cocoa Butter?!?!?!