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That innocuous looking and cute pastel colored bottle atop your bathroom’s window sill- the reason behind your rampant hair fall, a potential cause for cancer, and a major contributor to the waning environment?

A hard pill to swallow but- TRUE!

Your shampoo is not only eating away at your hair, but it is doing so in ways that will leave behind disastrous side effects and will also result in eventual balding!

Below are four of the most deleterious components found in almost every shampoo that are destroying your hair right down to the roots!

Table Salt

Firstly, how on earth does table salt even make its way to your shampoo bottle?

Secondly, how come something as harmless as salt is helping ruin your hair?

To answer the first question, sodium chloride is a key ingredient that helps shampoo liquid maintain its consistency. That nice foamy substance your shampoo makes when rubbed about? Yep, that’s also kudos to table salt.

However, sodium chloride is also a major reason why post-shampoo scalp dryness and itchiness prevails. Sodium chloride aids in the stripping off of oil from your hair and leaves your scalp sensitive and irritated. This irritation further encourages the halting of hair growth and hair loss.

All in all, Sodium Chloride is quite far from the clueless sprinkler you believe it to be!

Parabens

This one is easy because we have been taught since elementary school that parabens are harmful and that they cause the growth of cancerous cells. What we were very conveniently not educated upon is the rampant presence of parabens in our shampoos! Parabens are used as preservatives in our shampoos. Used in our shampoo to prevent the breeding of bacteria, these parabens, after extensive research, have been found to have deep interlinks with promoting the growth of breast cancer cells. These parabens are also used to increase the shelf life of shampoos.

Funny- increasing the shelf life of a bottle at the expense of decreasing the life time of a human being!

Synthetic Fragrances

Love the citric scent of your shampoo? Was your lavender fragranced hair the reason your partner fell for you? Well, you’re going to hate it now.

Why? It’s the reason behind the tufts and coils of hair left behind every shower!

To achieve this sweet fragrance for your shampoo, manufacturers mix and churn many hazardous chemicals that no one would suggest you bring even slightly close to your hair. However, because these hidden chemical are oft not labeled, we never find out what they are exactly. However, scientific research has concluded that shampoos with a fragrance are extremely disastrous for our hair and should be avoided at all costs.

Strong chemical fragrances? Big no-no!

Synthetic Colors

Shampoo liquids have super cute colors. Turquoise, baby pink, bright yellow, mint green- absolutely edible!

What if I told you that the perfect color is churned out of petrol and tar? Yikes.

Your shampoo’s color is the result of a strong chemical dye. These chemicals are sourced out of petroleum, which is an absolutely terrible substance to be used on your hair. Exacerbating hair and scalp dryness and accelerating hair loss, your shampoo’s cute color is ruining your much cuter hair!