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With plants aplenty and medicinal-looking packaging, the Phyto line is immersed in the (so-called) science of botanical extracts and how they affect our hair and scalp. Every Phyto product has at least a handful of plan extracts, but few of them have any effect when it comes to hair or scalp care. What Phyto doesn't discuss is the fact that although a certain plan extract may have beneficial active constituents, what the research has examined is the extract's pure, unadulterated form. Once extracts like this are commingled with standard ingredients such as sodium laureth sulfate, glyceryl stearate, and phenyl trimethicone (and these and all hair-care products do that), then mixed with water and processed for manufacturing, the extracts remain little, if any, of their original composition and benefit, assuming there was benefit originally.
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Phyto also labels their detergent cleansing agents, thickeners, and several conditioning agents as being of "botanical origin." An ingredient such as disodium cocoamphodiacetate may sound less intimidating if you know it's form a plant, but you can't take coconut oil or milk or tea or a palm leaf and use it to wash your hair, at least not if you want any sort of cleansing or lathering effect. Yes, many synthetic-sounding ingredients do have botanical origin, but the process of creating a cleansing agent from a plant source involves many steps in the laboratory to chemically turn the natural source into an effective hair-care ingredient.
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