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Does Rice Water Actually Grow Hair? | The Pixie Garden Hair Podcast Ep. 01 · The Pixie Garden Hair Podcast

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  Welcome to the Pixie Garden Air Podcast.
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  I'm Jess and I'm here with licensed
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  cosmologist and owner of the Pixie Garden
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  Salon in our main store, Delina Markland.
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  Delina, rice water for hair growth is all
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  over social media right now.
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  Does it actually work?
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  Here's the honest answer.
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  Rice water does not make your hair grow faster.
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  Your hair grows about half an inch a month,
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  regardless of what you put on it.
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  Cleveland Clinic reviewed this and said the same thing.
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  What rice water does is reduce breakage.
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  The active compound is called inocetal
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  and it bonds to damaged hair and creates a protective layer.
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  So your end stops snapping off, you retain more length
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  and it looks like faster growth.
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  That part is real.
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  Okay, so the benefit is real, but it is about breakage,
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  not growth.
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  So why not just make it at home?
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  Everyone online says soak some rice in water
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  and you are good to go.
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  You can and a lot of people do.
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  But here is what I have seen with clients
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  who try the DIY route.
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  The concentration is different every single time.
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  One batch is too weak to do anything.
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  The next batch is too strong and you get protein overload.
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  Your hair feels stiff, straw like,
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  starts breaking more instead of less.
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  You have no way to control the pH,
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  no way to measure the inocetal level
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  and you are storing raw starch water in your fridge,
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  hoping it does not go bad.
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  It works for some people, but consistent results?
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  That is hard to get from a mason jar.
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  So what is the professional alternative?
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  That is exactly why I carry the rice water shampoo
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  and conditioner bar in my shop.
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  It uses rice team protein, which is a standardized
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  rice protein extract, same beneficial compound,
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  but in a controlled concentration that is the same
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  every time you use it.
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  There is actually a clinical study from TRIK
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  on this ingredient showing a 20% volume increase
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  after five washes.
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  That is a documented, repeatable result.
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  You are not guessing.
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  You are not fermenting anything on your counter.
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  You just wash your hair.
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  That is way easier.
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  Who is this best for?
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  Anyone dealing with breakage, thinning ends,
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  or hair that feels fragile?
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  Fine hair, especially benefits
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  because the protein reinforcement makes each strand stronger
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  without weighing it down.
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  Color treated hair too because the chemical processing
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  damages that cuticle layer
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  and the rice protein helps fill the gaps.
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  I tell clients to use it two to three times a week
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  and track the difference over four to six weeks.
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  The ends tell the story.
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  Wayne Sialis?
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  When they stop splitting and snapping,
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  you will see the length retention.
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  What about people who are worried
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  about protein overload from a product like this?
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  That is the advantage of a formulated product over DIY.
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  The protein level is balanced.
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  It is not dumping raw starch onto your hair
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  in unpredictable amounts.
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  If someone has very protein-sensitive hair,
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  I say start with once a week and see how it feels.
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  But honestly, I have not had a single client
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  get protein overload from the bar.
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  That is the difference between a salon-tested product
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  and a kitchen experiment.
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  Makes total sense.
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  If you wanna grab the rice water shampoo and conditioner bar,
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  head to thepixiegarden.com.
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  Thanks for listening to the Pixie Garden Hair Podcast.
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  See you next time.
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