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Looking for a great moisturizing shampoo that removes product build-up, and also leaves strands moisturized, shiny, and with body? Bear Fruit Hair’s new Coconut Body Shampoo is here to help. Cleansing Coconut and Turkey Red Castor Seed oils will both cleanse and moisturize for great summer hair!

Introducing our new moisturizing Shea Butter Shampoo. Summer is fast approaching and your hair needs are sure to be changing with the sun’s heats.

It’s time for fabulous summer hair  with the new Shea Butter Shampoo!

Consumers of hair care products have likely heard the term ‘product junky’; it’s when almost no matter how badly or great a product works, you want to try the next newest thing, or simply others that you haven’t yet tried. Some try new products and give them up within a day or a week, perhaps rightly so, but also perhaps not. Rather than wasting tons of time and money trying to find the perfect mix of products, let’s first get you some underground information on how to properly test hair care products.

There are truly tons of factors to take into account when determining whether a product works well in and of itself, and further, on your hair specifically. Caveat: While some products are doomed to work terribly on most, don’t discount a product simply because it doesn’t seem to work on your hair. ‘Seem’ can be a key word here, since those who are used to their hair ‘feeling’ a certain way may not necessarily be able to distinguish the difference between the feeling and their hair ‘being’ a certain way. Case in point: You like the slick feel of your strands as you run your fingers through your hair, but perhaps it’s silicone in a product causing them to feel silky, meanwhile no more water is allowed to get into your strands because silicones are blocking it out. Thus, your hair may ‘feel’ healthy, but could be getting harmfully dry underneath.

Factors you’ll want to test: Note your current age, location, and condition of hair. Depending on any of these, a product can take less or more time to work well for you. Age and hormones, your hair type, and how you maintain it can determine your hair’s condition. What’s the temperature of your location? Is it dry? Humid? How hot or cold your area is, among other factors, can determine how quickly a product might work for your hair, or what additional measures you may have to take to get on an even playing field with it. For example, a product that normally works great in Chicago’s humidity may need more water added to it in Arizona’s dry desert environment.

Don’t quite pay attention to product feel, smell or consistency – these are more so matters of preference. They can be a factor in how well a product works, but usually when you think they are, they aren’t. Ironically, these are the factors that most grab consumers’ attention and loyalty to a product.

Also, when reviewing products to others, make sure to tell them your exact testing conditions, so that you can provide credibility in your review. Did you use a product just after washing or blow-drying your hair? Did you use it according to specified instructions, or did you select the right product for your hair type and location? Your viewers will be glad to know the details that apply to your trials, so that they can better determine whether a product will work somewhat the same, or quite differently from how it worked for you.

A melanocyte, melanin/pigment-producing cells located in the bottom layer of the skin’s epidermis, produces two types of melanin: eumelanin and phaeomelanin. Eumelanin has a color varying between brownish-red and black. Phaeomelanin’s color varies from yellow to red.

Black hair is the darkest and most common hair color. It has large amounts of eumelanin and is less dense than other hair colors. It can range from soft black to blue-black or jet-black.

Did you know that while blue hair doesn’t naturally occur in humans, our hair can turn true blue? (Wikipedia, 2011)

Red hair ranges from light strawberry blonde shades to titian, vivid oranges, copper, and less commonly “true” red. It is caused by a variation in the Mc1r gene and is recessive.[3] Red hair has the highest amounts of pheomelanin, around 67%, and usually low levels of eumelanin. At 1-2% of the population, it is the least common hair color in the world. It is most prominently found in Scotland and Ireland. Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads; 13 percent of the population has red hair and approximately 40 percent carries the recessive redhead gene.

Brown hair is characterized by higher levels of eumelanin and lower levels of pheomelanin. Of the two types of eumelanin (black and brown), brown-haired people have brown eumelanin; they also usually have medium-thick strands of hair. Brown-haired people are often known as brunettes/brunets.

Blond hair ranges from nearly white (platinum blond, tow-haired) to a dark golden blond. Strawberry blond, a mixture of blond and red hair is a much rarer type containing the most amounts of pheomelanin.

Blond hair can have almost any proportion of pheomelanin and eumelanin, but both only in small amounts. More pheomelanin creates a more golden blond color, and more eumelanin creates an ash blond. Many children born with blond hair develop darker hair as they age, with the majority of natural blonds developing their hair color into a very dark, almost brown, color by the time they reach middle age. Blond hair is most commonly found in Northern and Eastern Europeans and their descendants, but can be found spread around most of Europe. Blond hair is exceptionally rare among those without European heritage, however the Melanesians of New Guinea are one of the few non-European races and the only black race known to have a high blonde hair rate.

Did you know: Grey/white hair isn’t actually grey, but rather clear-colored hair that appears as grey or white because of the way light reflects from the hairs.

Auburn hair ranges along a spectrum of light to dark red-brown shades, with a higher proportion of red-causing pheomelanin than what is found in average brown hair. It is most commonly found in individuals of Northern and Western European descent.

Chestnut hair is a hair color which is a reddish shade of brown hair. In contrast to auburn hair, the reddish shade of chestnut is darker. Chestnut hair is common among the native peoples of Northern, Central, Western, and Eastern Europe.

For more on fascinating hair color: Auburn Hair, Brown Hair, Black Hair, Blond Hair, Human Hair Color (Wikipedia)