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How to read a leave-in label so your hair stays soft instead of coated: which silicones rinse off with plain water, which ones need a shampoo, and which ingredients limit themselves. A one-word-at-a-time guide, plus the clarifying wash that clears a layer that has already built.
The episode explains how conditioners stick to hair and why positively charged ingredients are self-limiting while uncharged dimethicone and plant oils are not. It walks the label - PEG in front of a name means water-soluble, plain dimethicone does not rinse off - and the other things that stack up: hard-water scum, hair-mask residue, heavy butters on low porosity hair. It matches a bottle to your own hair, sets the nickel-sized amount from the tips upward and short of the roots, and ends with the signs of buildup and the clarifying schedule that fits curly and coily hair.
