@ECBG wrote:
My butician advised me to stop using Wen. She's very good, so I'm following her advise.
A class action suit. I think I need go no further.
Good luck to everyone!!!!! Love my sisters!
I was a colorist for years and I am now an esthetician working in a dermatology office and also for a plastic surgeon. I would never advise anyone to stop using a product they are having good results with. I would also never advise anyone to stop using a product thats ingredients are in literally millions of other products on the market in both hair care and skin care. I don't use Wen but I have different reasons and they are I find it too expensive (IMO) and I do not think that sulfates are evil like he and other sulfate free shampoos are. The largest reason for color loss are water and sun, not sulfates. I also don't use skin care with any fragrance (chemical or natural) and try not to use fragrance in hair care, though that is much more difficult.
Just because they had a class action law suit that was settled means nothing. I do not think there has been a skin care or hair care line that hasn't faced lawsuits or had people who had their eyes swollen shut or hair falling out. Not everyone can use everything and an ingredient that works for one person will not work for another, and others will even be very allergic to it. Some might not have an allergy but just a sensitivity and they were able to use another product that even contains the same exact ingredient but can't use another product with that same ingredient but in higher quantities so they had a reaction that didn't have with the other product because the quantity in the other one wasn't enough to give them a reaction.
The only reason it was settled was because they would have spent more money in lawyers fees than they would have if it continued. Finding out the cause of hair loss is very difficult to determine and with 100% certainty is nearly impossible. I work for 4 derms and I see this all of the time. To tell you the truth I really wish Wen would have not settled because if they didn't these people would have never seen a cent and I believe that with all my heart. I am not a Wen user but I am neither a lover or hater of Wen but what they have in their product is nothing special or different at all than nearly all products on the market. They do have essential oils in there and I very much think these people had a reaction to those. Since "natural" products have become much more popular so are the essential oils like lavender, mints, citruses, etc... in them and since then derms offices have been getting inundated with people who have had reactions to them ranging anywhere from dermatitis, blistering, redness, eyes swelling shut, etc... While people may not be out and out allergic to these ingredients they have had reactions. You would be hard pressed to find skin care products they aren't in, though in smaller quantities but definitely in most shampoos and conditioners.
While your beautician may be great at cutting, styling, etc.. she obviously doesn't know much about product formulation or the ingredients even in these products because if she did she would recognize these ingredients are in the majority of shampoos/conditioners. To tell someone to stop using a product when they are having success with it really bothers me because she is a professional and people will take her word for it, as you did. Not only that, they will tell others, just like you did. I have no doubt in my mind you did because you had a serious concern for others when you started this thread. You trust your stylist and trust that she has a large weath of knowledge in styling but also presumably product and ingredients. So on no more than a cosmetolgists uneducated point of view (and I am not trying to say that to sound mean or harsh) how many women will stop using it just from what she said?
Like a previous poster said, if I wore Maybelline mascara and my eyes were swollen shut because I was sensitive or allergic to an ingredient that the majority of other women could use with no problem at all, should Maybelline be sued or others warned not to use it when they have no sensitivity or allergy like myself?
Now I am not a fan of essential oils like the ones mentioned above but that is because they cause irritation below the skin (even if it cannot be seen) and irritation causes the slowing of collagen production which is what keeps our skins firm and helps fight aging. Research has also shown that it isn't necessary to see or even feel these sensitizing effects on your skin suffer damage as well. Many of these oils are also phototoxic meaning sunlight causes a chemically induced skin reaction. Like I said though if your stylist says you shouldn't use this then you can also cancels out the great majority of other hair products on the market as well.
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