Ingredients in Action
Silicone is the primary curl-enhancing element in both products. The spend-y spray claims that natural ingredients, including passion-flower extract and mate leaves, hydrate and define curls. The less expensive curler uses panthenol and polymers to do the same thing.
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The silicones in both will define your curls without making your hair crunchy, but the göt2B's polymers will help the curls keep their shape longer.
Ingredients in Action
Both products contain panthenol (a conditioner) and glycerin (a humectant), but the cheaper product claims its silk fibers are responsible for smoothing. Lightweight silicones and cetearyl alcohol -- a fatty alcohol common in conditioners -- in the pricier version supposedly give you a straighter style.
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Both fight frizz and flyaways to keep your hair straighter. But cetearyl alcohol adds additional slipperiness, which makes it easier to glide a brush through your hair as you hit it with a hot blow-dryer.
Hair products are like fraternal twins -- similar in ingredients, but very different on the surface. We asked Lesley Bride, senior scientist at Procter & Gamble Beauty, and Fritz Clay, owner of Hair Play Salon in San Francisco, to compare similar products and say which are so close, you might as well save -- and which are worth the splurge. The results will surprise you.
