Schwarzkopf Extra Care Purify & Protect Silicone Free Conditioner

Hello lovelies,

after series of sharing a non silicone shampoos over the past few posts, now it's a turn for the conditioner, a silicone free conditioner from Schwarkopf.

On my previous posts, I've mentioned that using a silicone on the hair its fine, as long as it doesn't touch the scalp, they'll blocked the scalp sooner or later. On the hair, it helps seals, covers and made the hair appear smoother, shinier and healthier, even when it is damaged on the inside.

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Here's some information from Schwarkopf regarding Silicone:

When to Use Hair Care Products with Silicone

Whether hair care products with silicone are right for your hair depends on the type of hair you have and the type of hair you want to have. Learn how to infuse thick brittle hair with silky luster and how to add volume and hold to fine hair

Silicones are highly effective and valuable active ingredients in hair cosmetics. Silicones in hair care products are designed to serve specific purposes. The consumer has the choice of hair care products with or without silicones. Whether you should or should not use silicone-containing hair care products depends entirely on your hair type and what you expect the hair care product to do for your hair.

Hair Care Products with Silicone for Silky Shine

The main benefit of silicone in hair care products is its ability to form a microfilm around every hair shaft. With this protective coating in place, hair looks shiny and falls like smooth silk. The supple individual hairs align tightly now in wide light-reflecting layers. Dry and unruly hair responds particularly well to silicone in hair care products. Silicone restores the supple nature of hair, intensifies its luster, and makes it more manageable.

Silicone-free Hair Care Products for Hold and Volume

Unless your hair is seriously damaged, silicone-free hair care products are the best choice if your hair is fine and in need of added volume. The individual hairs are better able to support your hairstyle and build up sufficient volume if their cuticle layers are not silicone-coated.  
Different parts of your hair may need different types of care. If this is the case you have the option to treat the hair near the roots and the hair ends differently. For example, you may decide to use silicone-free styling mousse for the only slightly damaged hair near the roots and a silicone-containing conditioner (e. g. a conditioning spray) for the hair ends.

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So based on that information, Schwarzkopf deliver a refreshing option, a non silicone series consist of shampoo, conditioner and even hair mask. Mine is happen to be the conditioner.

Schwarzkopf Extra Care Purify & Protect Conditioner with Liquid Keratin for normal to dehydrated hair. Silicon free.
The needs of normal to dehydrated hair.
Even normal or dehydrated hair can feel lifeless and look dull. It is important to cleanse the hair keeping its protective layer and to improve its natural shine & vitality. 
Extra Care Purify & Protect
1. Perfect combability
2. Zero weight, no overburdening.
The repair solution with innovative Puricare technology.
The ultra-light formula with the breakthrough Puricare technology cleanses and protects the hair without diminishing the hair's natural shine. 100% free from silicones and parabens, 0% overburdening - no residues. 
Keratin Reconstruction.
Liquid Keratin reconstructs the hair and renews its quality by repairing damaged areas deep inside the hair and on its surface. 

Ingredients

Aqua, Cetearyl Alcohol, Quaternium-27, Isopropyl Myristate, Distearoylethyl Hydroxyethylmonium Methosulfate, Glycerin, Parfum, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Phenoxyethanol, Polyquaternium-37, Methylparaben, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Citric Acid, Panthenol, Benzophenone-4, Cocodimonium Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Keratin, Lauryl Glucoside, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Lauryl Glucoside, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Lauryl Glucoside, Hydrolyzed Keratin, Moringa Pterygosperma Seed Extract.

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The product comes in a white creamy lotion texture and smells so good, like a white floral, and turns into transparent like when used on the wet hair, like a milky liquid that protects and help heals. It contain liquid keratin that helps builds the hair, filling the needs. Our hair is made from keratin too, loss of keratin made it brittle and breaks easily.

So by using the product gradually it builds the hair strength and made them whole again. The thing is, it has to be in sync, we have to stop damaging the hair to see the difference or it will remain the same, like we are walking on the same spot where damaging and healing collide.

So, if you want to take care your hair, do it with your whole heart and reduce damaging it (talking to myself), meanwhile, using a more hardcore products like mask and serum also helps, so the  conditioner don't work alone.

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Overall,

it is a great conditioner that works by helping sealing the hair with liquid keratin and no silicone for a lightweight and airy hair that shines.
PS...bought mine in China.. just in case you're wondering and I think it's available in many country worldwide.

Schwarzkopf Extra Care Hair Total Repair 19 Mask

Hello lovelies,

as someone who loves changing hair color, for sure damage is part of it. As I love colorful hair, I also love to took care of them and make them stronger, healthier, and shinier too.

Masking the hair, conditioning, using serums and leaves in has been my daily routine, so when perhaps others are stopping on shampoo and conditioner, I continue with tonic, hair serum and so on. Using the mask every two days also has become one of my key note as it helps build my hair's strength little by little.

Some of you perhaps wondering, why keep on coloring the hair if it's damaging, the thing is, it is not the coloring, it's the bleaching process, so as long as the bleached has been done, the hair is already ruin and left exposed. Colorant like Manic Panic or Hair Manicure is actually 'treatment' as in sealing in the hair with colors. That's why hair that just been colored feels smoother, softer and shinier, while after a while, those colors wont last (since the bleach damaged the hair and made them fragile and like an open pores) so another coloring process need to be done, hence many people that have colored their hair, must continue to do so using pure acid color. No need to re bleach on each coloring session.

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Maintaining the hair on the other hand have to be done continually and non stop. Some hair treatments actually strip colors too, so choose products that really color friendly. In the end, it's kinda a battle between treating the hair of let it be, for me, I think I'm gonna keep using these mask as it helps build the strength of the hair, I might need to recolor faster than it should be, but I'm okay with that.

Here's some details regarding the mask.

Schwarzkopf Extra care Hair repair + Uv Filter with 19 active Ingredient Repairs Inside The Hair Cell Deep Hair Repair for very dry and damaged Hair Suppleness & Shine.
Ingredient Aqua ( Water), Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetrimonium Chloride, Distearaylethyl Hydroxyethylmonium Methosulfate, Dimethicone, Dimethiconol, Quaternium-87, Propylene Glycol, Mineral Oil, Isopropyl Myristate, Panox Ginseng Root Extract, Arginine, Acetyl Tyrosine, Arctium Majus Root Extract, Hydrolyzed Soy Protien, Polyuaternium-11, PEG-12 Dimethicone, Calcium Pantothenate, Zinc Gluconate, Niachinamide, Omithine HCL, Citrulline, GTlycosamine HCL, Biotin, Stearamodopropyl Dimethylamine, Cetyl Palmitate, Fragrance, Citric Acid, Polyquaternium-37 Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate, PPG-1 Trideceth-6, Lecithin, Phenoxyethanol, Laurdimonium Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protien, Methylparaben, Amodimethicone, trideceth-12, Panthenol, Glycerin, Pantolactone, Polyquatenium-10, Lactic Acid
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The product comes in a tube, yellow slightly golden in color and inside, the thick white fragrant cream. It is creamy and rich, pretty much satisfying in terms of texture. I use it on my shampooed and toweled dry hair, using around half the palm for my mid length hair all the way to the ends. Avoiding the roots at all cost as it is made for the hair and not for the scalp.

The rich cream sticks to the hair, it hold on to them and wrap them in moisture. I let them sit there for around 20 minutes, just tied a knot on my hair and continuing my activity at home. It becomes drier, like using a face mask that become more dense, this one too.

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Then I rinsed everything off with tepid warm water, the masking has made my hair soft, silky and smooth, I can easily brush my hair afterwards. Drying them using a hairdryer is an experience on it's own, like the heat from the hairdryer intensify the perfume, the hair smells so good. Each strand like coated by the nourishment but without weighting it down, if you feel like your hair becomes limp or lifeless, perhaps it's due to not enough rinsing.

I'm definitely continue to use the mask on regular basis, it helps my hair and helps me de stress too looking at my hair becomes stronger.

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So far no cons, so, I definitely recommend the hair mask to just about anyone. Normal hair? Use it like 1-2 a month to maintain the hair condition. Dry hair? 3-4 times a month, and severely damaged hair like me? 2-3 times a week until the condition improved.