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Chelating Shampoo
Hello everyone, wondering what do you think about Chelating Shampoo? Is it really necessary for those who lives in hard water area? Or it’s a new marketing thing to attract customers? Is it true that minerals in hard water can build up on the hair?
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I don’t think a chelating shampoo with claims regarding build up of Ca and Mg salts from hard water would be a good marketing story as it would be difficult to show a consumer benefit.May help with soap based products which are passé as non soap surfactants do not deposit lime soaps on hair.
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The metal ions in hard water stick to everything, including hair. They’re cationic.
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Dr Belassi do you then advocate the inclusion of a chelating agent in shampoo at say a 0.2% value?
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Yes, I do use EDTA as a chelator at 0.2%. The water here is hard and deposits collect on everything.
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Belassi, we all use EDTa or some other chelator anyway, right?
What then will make the shampoo a “speciality chelating shampoo”, is it the amount of the chelators?
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