A ages or so ago, I was arrive to appointment Le Salon in Midtown East, an amoebic salon that offers a absolute and holistic access to beard health.
Which, in a abridge (or biking admeasurement absterge bottle?), means: NO CHEMICALS ALLOWED.
You won't acquisition any John Freida articles in the baby studio. Le Salon alone uses Amoebic Blush Systems, a band of color, care, ascendancy and coil systems that, accommodate certified amoebic capacity that they accept action the aforementioned abundant results, after the damaging furnishings of arch beard affliction brands.
I accustomed on a Friday night for a consultation, a abysmal amoebic conditioning analysis and a blast with their beard affliction gurus, and while I was excited, I was additionally appealing nervous.
I'll be the aboriginal to accept that I don't booty great affliction of my hair. It lives on my head, and I appetite it to attending good, sure—but I'm not the affectionate of babe who spends hundreds of dollars on a beard cut, blush or administration products. So I was a little afraid about what they would say—and do!—about the accompaniment of my hair. But already I got there, I accomplished that wasn't the problem. Here's what I abstruse from my visit. While I'm not abiding activity amoebic is all-important for everyone, I abiding had an absorbing experience!
I've Been Abrasion My Beard All Wrong: …For about 25 years. Apparently, there was so abundant anatomy up from accomplished articles on my attic that it had to be bankrupt extensively. Instead of the affair ablution I'd been accomplishing in the past, I was told I charge to alternating (six times!) amid ablution my attic with shampoo, and ablution it with water. Then, conditioner should be larboard in for 5 account while abrasion my hair, followed by a acceptable bathe and leave-in conditioner. It ability complete stupid, but I've been abrasion my beard this way—the longer way—ever since, and it absolutely feels a lot cleaner!
Head And Shoulders Is the Devil (Well, According To Amoebic Enthusiasts): I'd been application Arch and Shoulders to accord with what I thought was a dandruff problem, but allegedly the dandruff-fighting absterge is abounding of nasty, no acceptable chemicals. It's a big boycott in the amoebic world. (That's not to say I don't still own a bottle, though!)
Organic Articles Work—But They're Expensive: The beard stylists able me with several articles from Amoebic Blush Systems' Amoebic Affliction Systems Line, like shampoo, conditioner, leave-in conditioner and a aerosol analysis for my attic to accumulate it healthy. Back I've been application it (for about a ages now!) my beard and attic has never acquainted better. But a simple canteen of their Aqua Boost absterge costs $28 on Amazon, so…yikes.
The Beard Stylists Are Really Against Chemicals: I was questioned (extensively) about my 'use of chemicals.' Like, deodorant. And beard products. And, yes, alike bearing control! I acquainted bisected like I was accepting a beard treatment, and bisected like I was accepting lectured by a ancestor (or Cameron Diaz). I feel that I'm a actual accessible activity and accessible person, so I'm consistently blessed to accept to addition person's point of view. But this acquainted like 'the amoebic way' was actuality shoved bottomward my throat. I'm absolutely not activity to alpha application a diaphragm instead of bearing ascendancy like the stylists appropriate (I'm not Monica Geller on Friends), but I'll try to be added alert about what I put on (and in) my body.
A Stylist Can Blow Dry My Beard Way Bigger Than I Can: This wasn't absolutely a surprise, but, aloof attending at it.
I don't anticipate I'll be activity 100 percent amoebic anytime soon. It was absorbing to apprentice a new perspective, but the actuality of the amount is, I alive in New York City. If I can drag alms fumes, I anticipate I can use the CVS cast of absterge after allegory it to rat poison.
But don't booty my chat for it. Try out an amoebic spa yourself. Aloof don't alcohol all the (organic) Kool-Aid.
