Cheap shampoo vs expensive shampoo

Cheap or expensive doesn’t really matter. Look for one that is sulfate free, which is most shampoos regardless of price. The sulfates are cheap detergents based on lye and will damage the hair, expensive shampoos just do a better job of smoothing that damage out.

[quote]most drug store shampoos were horrible for you and would make you go bald

Complete nonsense – that's part people not understanding the causes behind balding and part marketing campaign by luxury shampoo brands to sell more of their product. Modern-day cheap shampoos are just as good as the expensive ones, just make sure you use the right one for your scalp and type of hair.

I never spend more than €4 on hair shampoos (usually less than €2), and I know what all the ingredients in it are and what they do. If you're paying more than that, you're paying for the brand name, not the ingredients. In other words, you're getting fleeced in broad daylight.

You can make your hair thicker by taking vitamin B supplements. Silica helps, too. I also buy caffeine powder in bulk on the cheap and add it to all my hair shampoos, it helps in the early stages of hair growth.

There isn't much difference in the ingredients of cheap shampoos versus expensive shampoos

I meant to say that most shampoos have sulfates, regardless of their price.

I use a well formulated shampoo and conditioner. I have long hair and the difference between what I use and any old drugstore product is noticeable in a bad way.

OMG the off brand egg shampoo with the pearly sheen.

[quote]You can make your hair thicker by taking vitamin B supplements.

As a member of the bald community, I can tell you that this works only up to a point.

It’s plausible that cheap shampoo might damage your existing hair (I doubt it), but why would it make your hair stop growing? That doesn’t even make sense.

In my experience, the quality of the shampoo makes no difference. The quality of the conditioner is key. With that said, I have very soft, dense hair, and Garnier Fructis works best for me -- and it's usually among the cheapest.

The only thing that really negatively affected my hair was hard water -- no shampoo/conditioner on the market was powerful enough to make my hair soft again.

Finally, most claims made by the beauty industry are laughably unscientific.

I really like the Native brand and in my 50’s my hair looks better than ever. It’s mid priced. I agree that water quality greatly affects hair and we have a filter.

Sauve what's works for me.

Hair is dead cells. It's only the effect a shampoo has on your scalp that could potentially have any effect at all, because the scalp holds the [live] roots of the hair.

The hair they show you in ads that is supposed to need "treatment" is usually just shampooed with no conditioner and then teased against its grain to make it look dull and tangled. It's not "unhealthy". As soon as you put conditioner (or one of the shampoos with silicone in them) on it all the cells on the hair shaft lie flat and it's also easy to remove tangles. Use a hair straightener on top of it all and you get really shiny hair. It's no healthier than the hair that was tangled and standing up, nor than curly hair, which will never get that glossy shine because of the way light works.

Bleached hair will discolor under various circumstances and can go straw-like, but whether it benefits from specially formulated shampoos, or whether that's just what bleach chemicals do over time, I don't know.

OP that’s bullshit. It’s mostly genetic. If you have thick beautiful hair you will continue to have so in older age. How are you btw. Obviously with us men it’s different because male pattern baldness is a thing irregardless of hair type but that starts around late 30s, early 40s and they say it skips a generation. If you don’t go bald in your early 40s then you won’t get it. Everytime you cut your hair you reset it. The only thing that truly permanently damages hair is over processing ie perms, chemical bleaching, and too much heat. That’s why so many black American women go bald early because they be getting relaxers, reverse perms, on the regular since childhood. Then you add it all the blow drying and pressing to achieve a western standard of beauty. The whole weave phenomenon is actually more protective than perms. I also notice that Greeks, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Italians seem to go bald less than other Americans.

You do realize, OP, that there’s science and biology behind hair loss, and neither involve shampoo?

r13, I will counter your "weave protects" theory with weaves, braids, and locs actually cause traction alopecia. A lot of times they'll cornrow the hair for weaves too.

OP, this thread is for you.

They all contain similar ingredients so if you just want clean hair, stop washing your money down the drain with the expensive stuff.