If you have ever watched T.V. you've seen the commercials of beautiful women tossing their hair around and claiming that you can get their hair for just a few dollars at your local grocery store. One in particular claims that professionals prefer their products and even goes as far as saying that they have professional quality products without the professional quality price. Before you go pick up that three dollar shampoo, word dig a little deeper into what you're really getting.
If you look on the back of your shampoo bottle the second ingredient listed will be sodium laureth sulfate. That doesn't even sound like anything I want near me and surprise, surprise, it's not. This chemical has been long speculated to be cancer causing, this theory is now backed by the American Cancer Council. If that's not bad enough, it also contains dioxaine. This substance alone deserves a bullet point list: