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Pure, indie, clear, inexperienced, natural skincare is now commonplace on retailer cabinets and is talked about wherever you’re on-line. This podcast is all about it, however when you’ve listened not too long ago to Inexperienced Magnificence Conversations, you’ll have seen we’ve been focusing extra on the subject of pure, sustainable haircare and attitudes to hair. However discuss apart, are customers actively trying to purchase pure, extra sustainable haircare merchandise?

Massive, household-name worldwide manufacturers have typically had a cushty monopoly on our haircare shopping for habits for many years. However not too long ago, now we have seen some high-profile manufacturers having to do product recollects amidst security considerations. Maybe this can see buyers begin to query mainstream haircare substances. In that case, we might have the identical state of affairs we did within the early 2010s when a concern of parabens kickstarted the indie magnificence motion.

On this inexperienced magnificence opinion episode, Components Botanica CEO and podcast host Lorraine Dallmeier asks what it is going to take for customers to maneuver away from the massive manufacturers and what function mainstream magnificence will play in the way forward for haircare.

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This opinion brief follows our final visitor episode by which Lorraine interviewed Jana Blankenship, founding father of Captain Blankenship, the well-known and much-loved pure, indie haircare model.  Jana made a aware resolution to focus her model solely on pure haircare, regardless of acknowledging that pure haircare remains to be a brand new house for the sweetness trade – and buyers.  Right here, Lorraine delves additional into our propensity to purchase pure haircare and discusses a few of the tipping factors which will simply persuade buyers to shift to indie, pure haircare manufacturers sooner, moderately than later.

Not too long ago, there have been a number of high-profile product recollects of dry shampoos, due, amongst different points, to some being discovered to have detected ranges of benzene, which is assessed as a carcinogen.

Arduous on the heels of this information, the Journal of the Nationwide Most cancers Institute in 2022 printed a research which related hair-straightening product use with uterine most cancers. Whereas a direct, causal relationship was not established, it’s noteworthy that the research didn’t discover a comparable affiliation with different hair merchandise.

A decade in the past, pure haircare wasn’t actually heard of and even now, the pure and indie haircare market is small – however that is perhaps altering. Through the pandemic lockdowns, when folks had to deal with their very own haircare, we began on the lookout for DIY salon-grade merchandise for residence use. Coupled with the pandemic elevating consciousness of well being and wellbeing, buyers are beginning to hunt down pure haircare merchandise that provide refined and efficient residence haircare and styling.

In consequence, we’ve seen a pattern for well-known skincare manufacturers to supply haircare merchandise, and everybody now’s speaking about scalp care. Alongside this, we’ve additionally seen an increase in haircare manufacturers began by entrepreneurs of coloukr to supply a lot wanted formulations for pure coily and textured hair, which have been traditionally missed by nearly each mainstream haircare model.

Lorraine predicts that with all these parts coming collectively, we might quickly begin to see a groundswell of buyers transfer from the mainstream manufacturers to pure, sustainable haircare merchandise. Pure entrepreneurs of the haircare world would possibly immediately discover themselves with a booming enterprise.

This episode challenges you to seek out an indie haircare model and take a look at it. Even when you don’t really feel fairly prepared, perhaps simply take into account a serum for the information of your hair, or a scalp oil, or one thing that isn’t a shampoo or conditioner.  And do report again by leaving us a remark right here or in your favorite podcast participant.

If you need to listen to extra about a few of the haircare matters we lined, please do delve again into the podcast archives. Go and hearken to:

Episode 147 by which I interview Jana Blankenship about her pioneering pure, sustainable haircare model Captain Blankenship.
Episode 139 – by which I interview Components Botanica pupil mentor and Haircare Diploma course lead Suzanne Soto-Davies on why much less is finest in sustainable haircare.
Episode 140 – by which I focus on attitudes to hair, together with hair discimination.
Episode 111 – Jana talked about the PACT Collective which was co-founded by Mia Davis, VP of Sustainability and Influence at Credo Magnificence, who discusses the sustainability of magnificence samples on this episode.

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Lorraine Dallmeier is a Biologist, Chartered Environmentalist and the CEO of Components Botanica, the award-winning on-line natural beauty science faculty. Learn extra about Lorraine and the Components Botanica Workforce.