Hair Care
“With
all of my hair care, face care, body care, I try and get things that are based
primarily on plant extracts because I find that they’re the most gentle on my
skin and they are generally the most natural thing. There are a lot of products
out there that say they have natural ingredients and they are plant based or
whatever but you’ve actually got to turn around and look at the ingredients.
This is the Moroccan Argan Oil that I use on the ends of my hair before I blow-dry it. You literally only need to use the tiniest amount - I’m talking a pea size amount in your hand and rub it all through the ends of your hair. I don’t know what it is in its properties but it makes your hair dry twice as fast and also back to my Macadamia shampoo it also has these certain types of oil properties that makes the hair dry faster so it means that I don’t have to spend as much time with the heat of the hair dryer on my hair so hence less damage. And there are so many different brands that do this Moroccan Argan Oil, I’ve got a BaByliss one which I got from Australia but there are so many different brands. I think Kérastase has one and Schwarzkopf and Redken has one. I’m not loyal to any brand because I find that they basically all do the same thing, they’re just packaged differently. Now it is expensive for example this little tub here is 100ml and it cost me AU$35. But I use a pea size twice a week, because I only wash my hair twice a week, so this will probably last me for another five years [laughs].”
I
think that because I am so allergic to so many things with my diet, but then as
well I also have very sensitive skin, I always look at the ingredients on the
back of all of my products. And it’s crazy how many times you can turn over and
the ingredients straight away will be sodium lauryl sulfate, cetyl alcohol - in
the first two ingredients! Yet on the front it says it is an organic product or
plant-based product or a natural ingredients product, and it’s just so
deceiving. A chemical that I stay away from as much as I can is sodium lauryl
sulfate because it just strips everything that your body naturally produces. So
all the natural oils in your hair, all the natural oils in your skin. It’s such
a strong chemical.
So I
always try and find things that say, for example my hair care here says
sulphate-free and paraben-free. So they are two things which I try and not have
in any of my products. And it’s funny, since using my Macadamia Natural Oil Rejuvenating Shampoo, I’ve noticed with having red hair now I shampoo my hair with that
and hardly any colour will come out of it. I used to use Kérastase for
so so long because sure Kérastase makes your hair nice and smooth but it also
looked like I was bleeding in the bath. That’s how much of my hair dye would
come out. It just completely strips it. That’s why I’ve changed to
sulphate-free shampoos. This is an American-based product [Macadamia Natural
Oil] and it has a whole range and it’s beautiful. I buy this on the Internet.
Most of my products I do buy on the Internet. There are so many websites out
there; beautyflash.co.uk and mypure.co.uk is a brilliant one if you’re wanting
organic and naturally derived products. Or you can actually go onto their
individual websites and buy them.
Before
I found that I was using this Australian
Organics brand. You can actually get
this in places like Waitrose or Holland and Barrett and a lot of other health
food stores have it. I really really like Australian Organics. I like a lot of
products from Australia. I just find that they work really well and that we
seem to have a better hold on it [organic products]. So Australian Organics are
brilliant because I can just get them locally if I’m not able to order in my
specialist ones. They’re always on hand and there are different ranges for
different hair types. I have the volumising one because I have such thin hair.
They’re not as good as my Macadamia but for what they are they are still very
good.
I
also use a lot of Aveda products because
again the range is all based on plant extracts and they just have a lovely
odour to all of their products. They’re just beautiful and they tend to work
really well with my hair. I think that a lot of it is experimentation with your
own hair, your own skin. Something that works for somebody might not work for
somebody else. It just so happens that I’ve been using Aveda ever since I was
about 16 at home [Australia], because it was quite big at home. I used to use a
lot of their makeup as well as their hair care and I just find it very soft on
my skin and on my hair. It’s not harsh at all. Right now I use Aveda Damage Control. So
I will spray it on after I wash my hair, before I dry it. I’ll spray all over
and it coats the hair to protect it when you’re blow-drying. But then again if
I don’t want to blow-dry it I can just spray and scrunch and I get that sea
salt beach look hair.
This is the Moroccan Argan Oil that I use on the ends of my hair before I blow-dry it. You literally only need to use the tiniest amount - I’m talking a pea size amount in your hand and rub it all through the ends of your hair. I don’t know what it is in its properties but it makes your hair dry twice as fast and also back to my Macadamia shampoo it also has these certain types of oil properties that makes the hair dry faster so it means that I don’t have to spend as much time with the heat of the hair dryer on my hair so hence less damage. And there are so many different brands that do this Moroccan Argan Oil, I’ve got a BaByliss one which I got from Australia but there are so many different brands. I think Kérastase has one and Schwarzkopf and Redken has one. I’m not loyal to any brand because I find that they basically all do the same thing, they’re just packaged differently. Now it is expensive for example this little tub here is 100ml and it cost me AU$35. But I use a pea size twice a week, because I only wash my hair twice a week, so this will probably last me for another five years [laughs].”
- As revealed to Vanity Case
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