My mother always told me that just because something is natural doesn't mean that it is good for you. Deadly nightshade, for example, is natural. Hemlock is natural. Many, many different natural things will kill you. Nevertheless, I have still always been prone to buying things with the word “natural” on the packaging. Whether it is natural food, natural cosmetics, our natural hair products, I am a sucker for it all. I guess it is because I am well-meaning. I want to do my part to help the planet, although I am unwilling to give up most of the creature comforts that we all take for granted. I wish I had been a little bit more skeptical about All of the so-called natural health junk. Natural hair care sure did a number on my hair.

You see, I went into a natural hair salon looking for treatment. I was having all kinds of problems. In the first place, I have always had dry hair. No matter what my diet is like, my hair is dry and frizzy and prone to tangling. I had tried many different hair care products, but none of them helped. I thought the natural hair care was probably be my best bet. I didn't want to go into a more conventional hair salon, you see, where they would put harsh chemicals into my hair. I figured that natural haircare would involve gentle herbs that would nourish my hair, treating any problems I had without putting too much stress on it.

In addition to natural hair care for frizzy hair, I needed natural baldness treatment as well. My hair had been slowly but surely thinning for years, and Rogaine had done nothing to help. In short, when I went there into that natural hair care salon, I was looking for a miracle. What I got was more akin to a nightmare. After the natural hair care, my hair was so oily that I couldn't even brush the tangles out! If anything, the rate of balding seemed to increase. Rather than being the gentle treatment that I had expected, the natural hair treatment was actually quite harsh and unpleasant. I know that this isn't the typical experience that people have when they get hair care natural products. If anything, these products tend to be too weak rather than strong enough to be damaging. Even so, it should serve as a warning to people – my mother was right about natural products.