Heather Kennett identifies four ingredients to avoid in curly and wavy hair products: silicones (ending in -xane or -cone), drying alcohols, sulfates, and anything with propyl in the name. She recommends screenshotting the list for shopping.
The top red flags that you're looking for. When you're looking at the ingredients label for curly and wavy hair products ours don't contain them. Ours don't contain any of the nasties but if you're looking and you're looking at something off the shelf or you're looking online save this screenshot this follow for more tips and I'm going to explain the top three to you and I'm going to spell them out. So if you see Zane any x a n e on the back of your ingredients label that's a no has silicones in. If you see cone c o n e that is again going to be a silicone. It's going to be like the top ones you want to look for in terms of drying alcohols and sulfates. Sulfates usually say sulfates so that's really straightforward but anything that says proper p r o p y l try and steer clear of that. The those are the top ones to look for.
