Ph-balanced in skin and hair care: does it matter? Can you just rinse with lemon to take care of it?

I am stuck with a bunch of half-used hair conditioner bottles, so I don't want to buy a conditioner that comes with a shampoo. Everyone says I must, because a shampoo and a conditioner are designed to work together as a complex, Ph-balance being one of the factors, i.e. If a shampoo is very alcaline, its conditioner will be more acidic.

True or false? Speaking of Ph, does it matter that the product's Ph= the skin's Ph (5 if I am not mistaken), or just that it is not more alkaline? 'Cause if it's the latter, I can always rinse with a lemon water or vinegar, and that ought to take care of it?

Or would that be potentially more acidic? Asked by :-) 48 months ago Similar questions: Ph balanced skin hair care matter rinse lemon Lifestyle > Beauty.

Similar questions: Ph balanced skin hair care matter rinse lemon.

Some very good questions I think the notion that if you buy a shampoo, you must buy the matching conditioner is just a marketing ploy to get you to spend more money on a product. According to Paula Begoun, the Cosmetics Cops, the term "pH balanced" is meaningless. It is true that the pH of your skin and hair is in the neighborhood of 4.5 to 5.5.If you use products with a pH greater than this, on your skin you stripping away the "acid mantle", a very thin layer of sweat and sebum that protects your skin from damage and infection.

The acid mantle may sound a little gross, but it is necessary to good skin health. If you use alkaline products on your hair, it makes your hair feel quite thick. A hair shaft is not solid.

If you look at it under a microscope, it is composed of many scales, like fish skin. When the pH of your hair is low, the scales lie smooth and flat, when the pH is high, the scales "bloom" (think of a pinecone). This is the mechanism by which shampoos marketed as thickening or smoothing work.

It is not any particular ingredient, just the pH. So if you are using a very alkaline shampoo to thicken your hair, the matching conditioner had better also be alkaline, or it will just negate the effect of the shampoo.It is ok to rinse your hair with lemon juice or vinegar, women have been doing it for centuries. The ph of both of them is about 2.0, and that is fine.

It is acidic, but not corrosive, as some people believe. The two words mean different things. Things that are very alkaline can also be corrosive.

If you want to test the effect of pH on your hair, try washing it with a bar of soap. Bar soap typically has a ph of ~10.0. It should make your hair feel quite thick.

If you don't like the effect, simply rinse with lemon juice. Tantalumgirl's Recommendations Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me: Over 4,000 Products Reviewed, Plus the Latest Hair-Care Information Amazon List Price: $21.95 Used from: $3.95 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 39 reviews) .

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Fact one, your hair is DEAD, and although ph does matter, it is not as big of a deal as you think. sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Benchmar... gves you the facts about PH and hair: * pH 2.0: hard; smooth; not resilient; breaks easily * pH 6.0: not as hard; smooth; very resilient; resists breaking * pH 10.0: rough; not very resilient; tends to break easily * pH 12.0: very rough; not resilient; tends to break very easily As you can see, you want a ph around 6.0Now as for the rest of it, lets see in a nut shell? Ask all the guys you know how many of them use a conditiner?

I will bet at least half of them do not. Now if any shampoo was THAT unbalenced by itself, it would be the shortest lived product out there. Nobody would use a shampoo that would do that by itself.

Any shampoo and conditioner will work fine togeather. I will also now give you the secret that the companys do not want you to know about your hair. If you use any shampoo to long, you get build-up.

Now how do you fight this? Get another kind of shampoo. This is how salons make a killing on $8+ shampoos.

A person walks in with build-up caused by using shampoo X for a few months. The Salon then uses shampoo Y and it gets rid of the buildup, and you buy a bottle thinking that it saved your hair. Now, what you want to do is stay away from the $1 shampoo, however there are a lot of good brands in the $2-$3 range that work great.

What my wife does with conditioner, is uses anything for every day use. But once a week uses Aussies 3 minute miricule. And her hair is as soft and silky as anybodys.

Good luck, I hope this helps! Sources: My opinion and that of my wife.

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