Is There Pork In Your Products?

By K.R. Hargrove

Keeva Hargrove, The Hair Doctor, asks the question, "Is there pork in your products?" Her answer may surprise you. Learn if you are a "product junkie" and, if so, how you became one through brand name labeling and marketing. In addition, gain the skills you need to identify the hair and skin care products that will work just right for you!

No more wasting your hard earned money on products that just don't work. Get the healthy, beautiful, growing hair and soft, hydrated, glowing skin you deserve! This controversial book will have you thinking about what's really in the products you have at home. A must read!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365499180

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Is There Pork In Your Products?

IS THERE PORK IN YOUR PRODUCTS?

THE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING PRODUCT INGREDIENTS AND THEIR ORIGINS

K.R. HARGROVE

Copyright © 2016 by K.R. Hargrove. All rights reserved.

Chapter 1: Introduction – Is There Pork in Your Products?

Greetings! My name is Keeva Hargrove, also known as The Hair Doctor. I’m known as the hair doctor because I've always had a passion for healing hair and bringing hair to life. I'm a licensed Master Cosmetologist, a Trichologist, the owner of Provisions Holistic Hair Care, and a published author. But most of all I am a lover of all things natural! I've worked in the beauty industry for over 20 years. And to this very day, I absolutely love what I do!

Now here is my story and what led me to write this book. Throughout my journey as a Master Cosmetologist, I have used countless hair care and hair styling products. Initially, before I knew any better, I purchased the most popular products of that time. As long as the products smelled great and were within my budget I was satisfied.

Back then, I utilized about five different shampoos and conditioners, depending on the needs of my client’s hair. For example, if my client had dry hair, I’d use my favorite moisturizing shampoo, if my client had oily hair I’d use my favorite clarifying shampoo. If my client’s hair was relaxed or natural, yet still, a different shampoo. Whatever that particular client had going on, I had a shampoo and conditioner that was perfect for their hair needs.

When I first tried those popular hair care and hair styling products, I loved them. I loved the way they made my clients hair look and feel. However, I began to notice that over the course of a few months, my client’s hair would begin to look and feel different. Their hair became dull looking, their strands developed lots of split ends and their scalps became dry and flaky.  Their hair no longer responded to the products and the health of their hair and scalp declined.

In an attempt to fix the problem, I’d just try another popular product line and start the cycle all over again. Before I knew it, I had a collection of half used shampoo and conditioner bottles piling up at my shampoo bowl.

Determined not to waste my money, I did some research and I started doctoring up my half used bottles of shampoo and conditioner with essential oils and other concoctions in an attempt to make them work better. Sometimes it did help the products to work better. Other times, not so much. I became discouraged.

Now this was before the days of the No Sulfates campaign. Back then, most shampoos were full of harmful and aggressive detergents, or Sulfates, and other synthetic ingredients that would dry out naturally curly or chemically treated hair.  These Sulfates worked to extract both oil and water from hair in an effort to remove grease and dirt and rinse it away.

If I knew then what I know now, I would have realized that the harmful Sulfates that were in the products I used were a major contributor to the decline in the health of my client’s hair and scalp. And no matter how much I tried to doctor them up, the harmful synthetic ingredients in the products I used would still outweigh the good stuff that I added to the bottles. So I stopped trying to doctor up the products that I used and I learned to search for Sulfate Free hair care products.

Over the years, as I grew into a Hair Care Specialist and Trichologist, I began to pay more attention to the ingredients in the products I purchased. Initially, I focused on purchasing only Sulfate Free hair care products.  Then as I learned more, my collection grew to include Alcohol free, and then Paraben Free hair care products and so on. The more I researched, the more I learned of the many harmful chemicals (FDA approved chemicals) that are used as ingredients in