There’s kind of a stigma that comes with saying that you try to live in an earth friendly manner. To a certain segment of the population, all that means is that you don’t eat meat or wash your hair, wear lots of tie-dye and eat tofu. While I do actually like tofu and was a vegetarian for several years, that’s as close as I come to that model. For this reason I am sort of leery of products that list a lot of essential oils and flowery type ingredients. It’s a little too obvious and often they have a certain aroma. I don’t want to walk around smelling like an Art History major from Berkley on my way to a DMB concert with my bros.

So my mother was heralding her most recent QVC find, Wen by Chaz Dean, and I was cautiously curious. It was the whole repulsion/attraction reflex. Hmm… looks kinda crunchy but also like a really good idea. The cleansing conditioner is sodium laurel/laureth sulfate free and chock fulla botanical ingredients. It won’t lather when you use it so you might think something’s not working right but that’s a good thing. The sulfates and detergent in most shampoos and conditioners strip your hair of natural oils and actually are harming your hair. I need all the moisture I can get so I thought it couldn’t hurt. Honestly, it does smell a little hempy, I can’t lie. I used the Almond Mint. I felt self-conscious at first but the smell does dissipate quickly. Surpirisingly it made my hair so incredibly soft and gave it a luster that I find hard to achieve during winter; I just couldn’t turn my nose up at it. I also used it on my son and it turned his frizzy mop into soft, individual ringlets. The packaging is pretty upscale so that appeals to my shallow side. I think  I may now be a convert. I have to go buy a hackey sack now, crap.

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