As I’ve been really hung up on my ingredients
lately thanks to Grace and her article
on Toxic Beauty Ingredients, I’ve really been checking and double checking (and binning) a
lot of products, so the first thing I checked when I received my Kerasilk Instant
Silk Fluid was to check its ingredient list and honestly everything was alright
until I got to the bottom of the list .
. .then I had some issues. , My first issue lay with the fact that this
conditioner contained Alcohol Denat (aka Denatured Alcohol) an ingredient normally used in hair sprays,
and is not terrible good for your hair as it dries it out and sucks the
moisture out
(which is not a great ingredient choice for a serum).
The Goldwell Kerasilk Instant Silk Fluid
also containsPhenoxyethanol,
Butylparaben Ethylparaben, Methylparaben and Propylparaben . . .that’s a lot of parabens &
preservatives. I just did a blog post recently highlight the controversy with
Parabens and Phenoxyethanol (which is meant to be a parabens alternative)
so this did make me a bit uncomfortable. If you consider than
Alcohol Denat is sometimes used as a preservative, you do have to ask why does
a product formulation need to contain 6 different types of preservatives?
Keeping positive as these ingredients are listed very low on the ingredient
list, I decided to use this on freshly washed damp hair with a little bit of
Sweet Almond Oil and 3 drops of Rosemary Essential Oil to moisturize my scalp
The Goldwell Kerasilk Instant Silk Fluid
comes in a muted gold pump bottle which I always feel serums and hair products
should come in, as it makes dispensing so much easier when my hands wet. The
serum formula is very light in the hair and doesn’t take on a thick serum that
some serums have which I really despise. This did do exactly what it said it
would do on the bottle as it left my hair feeling very manageable as well made my
regrowth (natural
hair growth after a chemical hair treatment) a lot flatter and silky
. . . very, very silky (strokes hair).
I think this works quite well for me on my
hair but I think this would be a godsend for the ladies rocking the
Brazilian/Peruvian extensions as it is a lot light than the majority of serums
currently on the market and wont weigh down the extensions.
Do you normally use Serums in your hair?
Have you tried Goldwell before?