Do you wonder why all the beauty gurus are raving about micellar water and micellar shampoos? This magic solution that was once known to the world as a makeup remover is now creating an uproar in the hair care industry. Micellar shampoo is a perfect product to refresh your hair and scalp instantly. Curious to know more about this product? Read on.

What Is Micellar Shampoo?

The world is going gaga over the new revolutionary micellar water. What makes it so fancy? Micellar water or micellar shampoo contains tiny molecules called micelles. These are cleansing molecules that cling onto the oils and impurities on your scalp like a magnet. The best part is that they rinse out quickly, taking the dirt and grime along with them. These shampoos are similar to clarifying shampoos but unlike micellar shampoos that can be used every day to keep impurities at bay, clarifying shampoos can be used only once or twice a week.

How is a micellar shampoo different from a regular shampoo? Let’s find out!
 
What Is The Difference Between Micellar Shampoo And Regular Shampoo?

Micellar shampoos are milder than regular shampoos and can be used every day. The formula is much gentler and does not lead to dryness despite using it regularly. For someone who uses a ton of serums and styling products, this product can be of great help as it clears build-up without drying your scalp. A regular product, on being used every day, can buildup on your scalp over time.
If the entire hair care industry is embracing this product, there must be something about it, right? Here are the benefits.
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Benefits Of Micellar Shampoo

• A micellar shampoo cleanses your hair without being too aggressive on your scalp.
• It keeps your hair moisturized and hydrated for days.
• It leaves your hair feeling clean and fresh.
• It helps remove product build-up without stripping your hair color.
• It helps combat unpleasant scents or sweat odors that get trapped in your hair.
• It fights against the effects of environmental pollutants and keeps your hair smelling great all day long.
• It adds a dose of antioxidants to your hair and scalp with every wash.

Let’s now look at the top 10 micellar shampoos you can lay your hands on.

​Top 10 Micellar Shampoos To Buy In 2019

1. Redken Clean Maniac Micellar Clean-Touch Shampoo
2. Pantene Pro-V Blends Micellar Shampoo
3. Herbal Essences Refresh Micellar Water & Blue Ginger Shampoo
4. Schwarzkopf bc Bonacure Q10+ Time Restore Micellar Shampoo
5. Kerastase Aura Botanica Bain Micellaire Shampoo
6. Eveline Cosmetics Micellar Hair Growth Shampoo
7. L’biotica Organic Micellar Shampoo Rockrose & Black Cumin
8. Leganza Micellar Shampoo
9. Domus Olea Toscana Undici Micellar Shampoo
10. Echosline Seliar Micellar Shampoo

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The new shampoo trend is perfect for hair care.

While the technology behind micellar waters—the dirt-grabbing cleansers that have been popular in France for years—isn’t actually anything new for skin, the science is now being used for hair care, from drugstore brands like Pantene Pro-V to prestige brands like Kérastase. If you’re already a micellar disciple, it may not take much convincing for you to swap out your shampoo, but if you need the conversion, this is the perfect time of year. At the end of summer, hair is at peak levels of dirt. Think of your hair after a day spent swimming: salt or chlorine, sweat, and maybe some excess sunscreen. Definite signs of a great day, but also one of the worst combos for your buildup. But traditional clarifying shampoos may be too harsh and can exacerbate dryness, and cleansing conditioners likely won’t get rid of all the gunk.

Cosmetic chemists Perry Romanowski of TheBeautyBrains.com breaks down, in one of his podcasts, exactly how these cleansers work and why micellar technology in shampoo may be a good in-between option if you’re planning to live at the beach or pool over the next few weeks.

THINK OF IT LIKE MAKEUP REMOVER FOR YOUR HAIR

Most beauty enthusiasts already know how it works—or at least have heard the claims. But for the sake of understanding why the dirt-magnet technology is kind of a duh for hair care, here’s a little refresher: The micelles are basically chemical structures that gently cleanse by encapsulating harsher surfactants (i.e., soap) into little bubbles that suck up dirt and oil. “The idea is that micellar waters are milder or better for your skin because the surfactants are tied up in micelles,” says Romanowski. So in shampoo, it’s essentially doing the same gentle cleansing.

What these miracle waters do for long-wear makeup is exactly what it does for hair: cleans without stripping. DevaCurl was one of the first to incorporate the technology into a hair cleanser when it launched Buildup Buster, followed by Redken Clean Maniac Micellar last year. Both work like super-mild clarifying shampoos to remove product buildup and all of the other summer elements that can send your hair into recovery mode by the end of the season.

IT’S A GOOD MIDDLE-GROUND CLEANSER

“Micellar cleansing can be used on hair, but it won’t clean as well as standard shampoos,” explains Romanowski. “However, it will clean better than co-washing.” So if you’re looking for a mild cleanser (i.e., you’re on vacay and may be washing daily), this would be a reasonable option. It’s also a safer bet for color-treated hair.

IT’S PERFECT FOR DAILY WASHERS

“Hair tends to get more oily than skin, so micellar technology likely would clean skin better than hair,” says Romanowski. If your hair is not particularly oily or dirty, a shampoo using micellar water may be effective enough to get it clean. Although, Romanowski adds, people typically wash their hair more often than they really need to. “If you don’t like your hair feeling oily or weighed down, you probably won’t like micellar shampoos.”

So who are micellar shampoos best for? If you have an oily scalp, this isn’t the best option for you. If you are a daily washer (with normal to combo scalp skin), have color-treated strands, or if your summer strand strategy involves gels, sea salt sprays, or curl creams, this offers a safe way of gently getting rid of all that product and leftovers from too much fun in the sun.

This article first appeared on Coveteur.com

Can we all agree we’ve hit max CBD hysteria? With CBD markets and thousands of sites and products, there’s nearly just as much misinformation as there are facts. The hemp-derived oil is 100 percent federally legal and powerful, but there are a lot of misnomers out there too. We sat down with the new cool kids on the cannabis block, David Weiner and Verena von Pfetten, the founders of weed-positive media and product brand Gossamer. Both knowledgeable experts, they myth-busted everything from dosing to legality—buckle up, because there are a lot of concepts to clear up.

CBD Is Cool and All, But It Has Limits

“CBD products do a lot of things and help a lot of cannabinoids do their specialties, but it isn’t actually a stand-alone,” says von Pfetten. While CBD is getting all the buzz right now, the other 80-plus cannabinoids in the cannabis plant are pretty undiscovered. “But there is a real opportunity for people to create these products that have very specific effects,” she says. In the next few years, look for the market to explode with products that not only feature but showcase things like CBN and terpenes. “CBD is not a myth or hoax, but it’s also not a cure-all,” says von Pfetten. “It’s a basis for all these other layers that could be incredibly promising and exciting.”

CBD Is Not for Sleep

We’ve said it once and we’ll say it a thousand times: CBD is not a sedative to be taken for sleep. It will help with things that might be keeping you awake though, like pain or anxiety, says von Pfetten, but it will not lull you into a deep snooze. It’s sister, CBN, is a sedative, though, and a powerful one at that. “However, it doesn’t work on its own. It needs to be taken with CBD in order to be effective,” she says. So while CBD is not the main ingredient in CBN sleep aids, it is a vital ingredient to make the product actually work better.

It Probably Has THC in It

Most users and non-users don’t realize that the full-spectrum classification means that it has the (admittedly small) legally allowed amount of THC in it (which is .3 percent). “It is a federally legal product and it will not make you feel high, but it does have THC in it,” says Verena.

And Potentially More THC Than Legal

That bottle of CBD? It can kind of say whatever it wants to say because, technically, there isn’t much oversight. It’s now under the FDA’s department to test and verify products, but testing is infrequent. The Gossamer duo and their labs have independently tested a number of products directly off the shelves and “some of them are crazy,” says Weiner. “Not only do some not have CBD in them, but some of them have much higher doses of THC than are legal.” Why? This is a plant-derived product, so each and every batch is going to have its own variations and differences.

For Gossamer’s own CBN product Dusk, each round is slightly different than the next, and that’s exactly why they test every batch independently. “Think about how hard this is when you are mass-producing CBD edibles, chocolates, or caramels,” says Weiner. “To get between that very specific concentration in every single chocolate, if you didn’t get it right, you’d have to dump an entire batch.” There is natural deviation in plants, so it’s impossible to claim each batch is exactly the same in potency and amounts.

Dosing Is Personal

CBD, and all things cannabis, affects every person differently. “Everyone has a different reaction to so many things, from caffeine to salt to alcohol to food to antibiotics,” says Weiner. “We think of CBD as this cure-all, this one-size-fits-all solution, but it’s not.” With a plant-based product, there’s no guarantee, so consumers have to educate themselves on personal percentages and dosing. 

You Already Produce CBD—Yep, Really

“There is not enough discussion about what actually happens when you consume it,” says von Pfetten. “Your body naturally produces small amounts of CBD on its own.” That’s why our bodies interact so well with cannabis oil. “There are cannabinoids that we produce and there are cannabinoids that we get from plants and outside sources,” she says. You have an endocannabinoid system (all vertebrae do) with specific receptors that react exclusively to cannabinoids. CBD binds to those receptors and helps to regulate and maintain homeostasis. “All of that is happening in your body when you take CBD,” she says.

Terpenes Are the Future 

“Terpenes are going to be the thing in the next two years,” Weiner says. You probably don’t even know it, but terpenes are actually in a lot of the products you already use. “They’re in perfumes, skincare, candles, and medicine already,” says von Pfetten. They are bountiful in the cannabis plant; we have much further research and studies conducted on the efficacy of terpenes than other elements of the plant.

“Each terpene has their own effects that we can gain benefits from,” says Weiner. For Dusk, they chose terpenes that have a sedative or calming effect so they complement the CBN and CBD to work together to promote better sleep. But there are energizing terpenes and beyond too.

“People understand what CBD is now, and it’s basically a base,” says Weiner. “Now, we can take the conversation one step further, like adding CBN. And then we can take the conversation even one step further and lay in terpenes, and that’s where you start to get wildly specific effects. As consumer knowledge grows, so do the products.”

Organic is Not Possible

“In 99 percent of cases that have that organic stamp on the bottle, it is fake—they just put it on,” says von Pfetten. That’s because it’s incredibly difficult to become certified organic in hemp and extraction processes. “It’s not that they aren’t organic, but the actual certification process requirements are very, very high,” she says.

The farm that creates Dusk is organic, but it cannot put that claim on the bottle because legally it’s nearly impossible. “Your space might be organic, but one or two farms over is not, and those heavy metals pesticides can end up in the soil and your product as well,” she says. “You want consumers to be wary, but people in the [market] space are taking advantage of the consumer and muddying the waters.”

That’s not to say what you’re consuming isn’t safe. A quality brand will test each batch a minimum of three times to ensure safety. “You test it at harvest, distillation, and right again before it goes into the bottle,” says von Pfetten. “The reason you test it those three times is to ensure you don’t have any runoff pesticides from nearby farms.”

You Can Be Price-Agnostic 

CBD on its own is not a particularly expensive item, yet you’ll see a product for $10 and the same size bottle from a different brand for $110. What gives? “What they are doing with it, where they source it, terpenes, the formulations, the packaging, the cannabinoids, their willingness to dump a batch—there is a reason for different price points,” says von Pfetten. “CBD itself is not super cheap, but it’s also not insanely expensive, so at a certain point, you are absolutely paying for marketing,” she says.

The main thing to ask yourself is “Does the product work for you?” “If it does, that’s all that matters,” says Weiner. But they suggest checking your product’s certificate of authenticity (COA) for your specific batch to verify what you’re consuming. But what you’re comfortable paying for is totally up to you.

How You Consume It Matters—a Lot

The effectiveness of CBD is based on how you consume it. “The number one most effective way is to vape it,” says von Pfetten. “The second most effective way is a sublingual tincture, meaning absorbing under your tongue—not swallowing it.” That means actually holding it under your tongue for 30, 60, or even 90 seconds to try to absorb as much as you can sublingually.

The number one least effective way to consume CBD? Eating it. “You lose up to 70 percent of the active cannabinoids,” she says. So if you’re eating a 10 milligram gumdrop: you firstly have to hope it actually has 10 milligrams in it, which you don’t have any guarantee of at this point, and secondly, you’re losing 70 percent of it, so you’re maybe getting three percent at most, and that was only if it had 10 milligrams in the first place.

“That’s why we stand behind tinctures at this point,” says von Pfetten. “Sure, vaping, but a lot of people are just reluctant to vape something at this point, and that we can understand.”

The Gossamer duo isn’t over CBD though. Every day they get emails and notes from users of their CBN/CBD tincture, saying how much it’s helped them. “What we’re over is the gimmicks,” says Weiner. “CBD in coffee, etc.—the overpromising.”

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I'm going to link you to my Blog where I posted the following articles from last Summer's newsletter about Summer hair care.
 
Protecting Your Hair from the Summer Sun
Protect Your Hair from Chlorine While Swimming
Don't Let the Sun Bleach Your Hair
How Will Chlorine Affect My Hair?
Hair Tip: Treat Your Sunburned Scalp

New Delhi (IANS)  Summer can bring in several hair woes. From using right serum to brushing in a proper way, experts say there are easy ways to tame your mane.
Arpit Jain, founder and Managing Director of Auraine Botanicals, suggests tips to keep your hair healthy:

• Hair serum: Always apply hair serum with finger tips and do not apply hair serum too close to the scalp to avoid oily look as applying serum with finger tips will give better look to your hair.
• Hair wash: Wash your hair twice or thrice a week to retain essential oils. Ensure that you wash your hair with warm water (neither too hot and nor too cold) to avoid frizz and damaged hair.
• Brushing: Brush your hair in balancing manner so that too much of brushing does not distribute oil all over your hair.
• Dry shampoo: As summers have set in, dry shampoo is going to be your everyday saviour if you don't have time to wash your hair regularly then dry shampoo will help in hair to not look greasy and matte.
• Tie your hair: To avoid extra stress to your hair, tie your hair when you sleep and when you go out in the sun or dust. This prevents your hair from the further damage.

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Vibhoar, Director of NEU Salonz, busts some myths that can help you to get healthy hair this summer.

• Cutting your hair regularly makes it grow faster: It is a myth! Hair grows from the root, and the body cannot detect when it has been cut (shaving, plucking or tweezing is a different story). Cutting the hair removes split ends which help the hair stay more aligned and look healthier. Perceptually, if you get your hair cut regularly you will probably be more aware of how quickly it grows.
• Be rough: You really have to be rough to get the lather going. Remember, your hair is delicate when it is wet, so be gentle. Massaging your shampoo in with soft, circular movements will give you a few minutes of bliss.
• Dying your hair will cause damage: Bleaching hair can dry it out and damage it however there are plenty of nourishing treatments to help replenish hair. Invest in good quality, hydrating shampoos and conditioners and use a mask once a week to keep your hair in the best condition possible.
• Stress is making your hair fall out: It is definitely true that certain traumatic events have been linked to hair loss. Things, like suffering a major illness, gaining weight, career struggles or a death of loved one can trigger hair loss. However, the types of hair loss associated with high stress are typically telogen effluvium, a "resting phase" in which hair follicles stop growing, and alopecia areata, patchy hair loss. Both of which are temporary, reversible, and easily treated with topical or oral solutions to jumpstart the recovery process.