One of the most important conditionally essential amino acids is arginine. The human body needs it to transport nitric oxide and produce a large amount of hormones. According to reviews, L-arginine takes an active part in the growth of muscle mass, so it is often taken by professional bodybuilders. Women often consume the amino acid as a supplement to lose weight and maintain their youth, as the substance helps slow down the aging process in the body.
What does an amino acid have to do with hair? The fact is that its ability to stimulate blood supply extends to the hair follicles, due to which the hair is healed. It is important to know that the substance has absolutely no contraindications and can be harmful only in large doses. Therefore, it is often included in various cosmetic products.
Product from Elsev
Given the huge benefits for the body, and hair in particular, a popular cosmetic brand could not ignore this substance and released the Arginine Power shampoo. Reviews about him are mostly positive, despite the heavy composition, but more on that later. The packaging of the product can be easily recognized bycharacteristic brand style. Shampoo, conditioner, spray bottle and mask jar are black and pink.
The product itself is also recognizable - its color is always white with mother-of-pearl and the smell characteristic of the brand.
Varieties
Today, Elsev Strength of Arginine shampoo (product reviews will be below) is presented to customers in two series. The first in addition is signed as "X3" and is intended for normal and dry hair. The composition of such products is enriched with a large number of additives and silicones, which is why it is designated as triple strength.
The second version of "The Power of Arginine" is a shampoo labeled "Light". Outwardly, the packaging of the product differs only in a small blue stripe, on which its defining feature is written. Designed for oily hair and features a lightweight composition without silicones and other weighting agents.
Information from the manufacturer
According to the reviews, L-arginine is necessary for our entire body, so its presence in the composition of a cosmetic product is especially useful for a direct impact on the problem. Elsev specialists claim that the amino acid in their products penetrates the hair structure and restores them. Thus, the shampoo is a must for those who have damaged hair - dyed, dry curls, split ends, and so on.
But after all, the restoration of the hair structure does not affect its growth rate in any way, but according to the recommendations of manufacturers on the package,Shampoo should also be used with a tendency to hair loss. Here experts also give a reasonable explanation. The fact is that the amino acid gets not only into the hair shaft, but also into its follicle, which increases blood circulation in it, and hence accelerates growth.
What to expect
Product "Elsev Power of Arginine" reviews are in most cases positive. Girls are especially pleased with the silkiness of hair after the first application. The triple strength product line demonstrates this effect especially brightly, but at the same time it weighs hair down a lot. When switching from another cosmetics, it is not worth using all the products from this manufacturer at once, it will be very difficult for the hair. Due to the large amount of silicones in the composition, the hair gets dirty very quickly, even after using the light version, which contains fewer harmful additives. Of course, there are pluses to this situation - the hair is very smooth, shiny and does not electrify.
Strong cleansing effect in some girls, on the contrary, causes drying of the ends of the hair.
Recommendations from customers
According to reviews, many girls who have experienced it on themselves recommend using Elsev Arginine shampoo to those beauties whose hair is dry. Despite the fact that the manufacturer positions the product as an effective remedy for strengthening normal hair, it is for them that the remedy will be too heavy. The silicones in the composition will make the hair shiny and obedient, but they will get rid of the volume and require too frequent shampooing.
Foroily hair, it is absolutely impossible to use shampoo, there will be no cleanliness effect, the product will lead to the need to wash your hair at least every day, or even more often.
Here, for owners of dry hair, the series is just a godsend. According to reviews, "The Power of Arginine" helps them get rid of the "dandelion" effect, makes hair obedient, smooth, shiny and does not weigh down much, namely, it nourishes, as stated by the manufacturer.
Main substance
In the list of shampoo ingredients, immediately after the water is sodium laureth sulfate. This means that in percentage to the rest of its components it is the most. Many people know that this component is a surfactant toxic substance. Its advantages are excellent cleansing of hair from dirt and active foam formation, but the cons are much more dangerous. The fact is that the substance is able to penetrate the skin and mucous membranes into the body and accumulate in it with a long-term effect.
Silicones in the composition
The second most concentrated liquid silicone in shampoo is dimethicone. According to reviews, "Elsev Arginine" gives the hair extraordinary silkiness, and so this effect is achieved precisely thanks to this component. Silicone makes combing easier, makes hair manageable, protects it from damage and forms a protective film on the skin and hairs.
It is believed that all products with this component should be washed off with fat-containing products, since silicone is not removed with ordinary water.
Cleaners and polymers
Next on the list of shampoo ingredients, sodium chloride should be noted, acting as a viscosity increaser. This substance can also be toxic in high concentrations. Sodium benzoate is used as a preservative (safe for humans). To reduce the negative impact of various surfactants in the composition, cocamidopropyl is used. This substance is produced from coconut oil fats and is also necessary in the composition to eliminate static hair discharge. The main action of the substance is purification. From the same fatty acids, another component is also produced, acting as a thickener, cleaner, foam stabilizer and emulsifier. You should be aware that the component is also used as an anti-corrosion agent.
Sodium cocoate is obtained from a mixture of coconut acids and alkali. It is essential in shampoo for viscosity, consistency, hydration and skin softening.
Another polymer in the composition is carbomer. It is absolutely non-toxic, according to reviews. "Arginine" gets consistency stabilization when it is added.
Natural Ingredients
In the role of additional protection against heavy surfactants, a component derived from guar gum also acts in the composition. In addition, it provides long lasting lather, fullness and detangling.
Wheat protein is also a natural component. Its hydrolysis provides the ability to form a protective film on the surface of the hairs. Thus, it turns out that the hair itself is completely cut off from the environment and exists only due to its own moisture infixed position. Wheat protein also provides nutrition to the hair.
L-arginine acts as a natural antioxidant.
Reviews of the amino acid are good, but in the list of components it is far from the first place, which means it is not the main active ingredient of the shampoo. In the Elsev product, the component helps to produce collagen, improves nutrition and blood circulation in the scalp.
Minor ingredients
Further to the end of the list of components are substances whose concentration is minimal. These include sodium hydroxide, used as a skin scrub, fragrances, stabilizers, preservatives, moisturizers, and cleaners. These components can only be considered partly safe, since many of them in high concentrations can cause burns.
Compositions of other products
In addition to the mass of weighting components in the shampoo, silicones are also found in additional care products - balm, mask, spray.
Of course, there are more or less useful substances in them. So, in the balm you can find "film" moisturizers that retain moisture on the surface of the hair. The mask contains a huge amount of wax, polymers and the same silicones. All of them create only the illusion of restoration and are effective only while the remedy is used.
Means analogues
Despite the fact that the reviews of "Arginine" from "Elsev" in most cases are positive, some girls still try to find a less burdensome for their hairreplacement, but with the same characteristics. So, according to many ratings, the best strengthening shampoo is the product of the German company Londa. Among the disadvantages are the high price and not so pronounced shine and smoothness, but there are no silicones in the composition, and the shampoo does not weigh down the hair.
Schwarzkopf hair cleanser is based on silk hydrolyzate, not arginine. Reviews about it are also positive, the product perfectly retains the shine and color of the hair, and also does not contain sulfates in the composition.
Vella also produces a good product. Depending on the series, many useful nutritional components can be found in the composition.
Domestic shampoo "Natura Siberica" occupies one of the first places in popularity ratings not only on forums, but also in online stores. According to reviews, arginine in Elsev shampoo is not too superior to the effect of pink radiola, beeswax and Dahurian soy. At the same time, hair is perfectly protected from external factors, shines and does not get dirty too quickly.
The advantage of the Elsev product over all its analogues listed above is that the shampoo not only strengthens the hair structure, but also accelerates its growth. Such a complex of action has a negligible number of cosmetic products on the market, and in order to accelerate hair growth, you should look for others. In this case, shampoos have proven themselves:
- "Horsepower";
- "Ollin";
- "Natura Siberika";
- "Elf".
Analyzing their work, we can say that the majority of opinions about these products are also positive. Among the disadvantages of some products, their high cost should be noted, but today you have to pay a lot of money for naturalness in many areas. In addition, some products among their characteristics have hair strengthening. "Arginine" reviews on this matter, although it receives unequivocal, but many are sure that this effect is achieved not by restoration, but only by the creation of a film of silicones on the surface of the hair. And it will pass immediately after stopping use.
Conclusion
Despite the fact that the synthetic origin of most of the components of the composition of the shampoo in question is obvious to everyone, most women still say that they will definitely buy it again next time.
This is largely due to the rapid recovery effect, because the hair becomes shiny and manageable after the first application. Excellent shampoo removes static electricity, so in the cold season it becomes a real salvation for owners of dry hair.
Of course, if a lady is a follower of natural ingredients, then you should not buy this shampoo. It is also contraindicated for girls with oily hair, because, no matter how the manufacturers assured, the product still makes the hairstyle too heavy, completely deprives it of volume and leads to rapid hair pollution.
