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Logan Spring, owner of Consciously Curly Salon in Malta, styles a client\u2019s hair. Courtesy Consciously Curly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Susan Elise Campbell<\/p>\n

With a name like Consciously Curly Salon, there is little question which market Logan Spring is targeting for her new hair studio at 123 Dunning Street in Malta.<\/p>\n

Not all curls are the same. Ninety-seven percent of people have some curl or wave in their hair, Spring said. She tells clients to respect their hair\u2019s natural texture and not hide or change it using mainstreamed products, as the hair industry wants people to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a rebel in the industry,\u201d she said. \u201cMost salons focus on short-term results with typical treatments, but hair becomes less healthy in the long term because of the toxic ingredients most manufacturers use.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy clients are people who want sustainable results and healthier hair,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople keep looking for a magic product, but what they need is a better way to hydrate their hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

So many health-conscious women are looking for solutions like these that Spring said that after only eight weeks her appointment book was already filled through November.<\/p>\n

Spring offers much more than a hair cut. Every experience is an opportunity to educate how nat-ural products can make hair healthier. Her menu of services ranges from a 30-minute color consultation to wash and style with or without a haircut to a 12-week comprehensive master-course online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She is an MBA and industrial engineer by trade. Her career involved teaching students at nanotechnology schools how to read trade journals, a skill that helped her not only research brands of hair care products, but also teach her viewership how to read product labels.<\/p>\n

Then last year, Spring realized that since she started her online business and was cutting her own hair that no one had yet stepped in to fill this niche. She went to cosmetology school and then right into salon ownership.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span>\u201cWhat happens in the beauty industry is a kind of trap, where you want a little bit more hold or definition or a little less tangling,\u201d she said. \u201cBut most products are laced with synthetics, pol-ymers, plastics, and oils that coat the hair, giving you a short-term solution just long enough to think the product is working.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cActually the product is decimating any chances of your hair being healthy on its own by blocking out water and keeping the hair in a chronically dehydrated state,\u201d she said. The word \u201cmoisture\u201d or \u201cmoisturizing\u201d on a label doesn\u2019t mean hydration, but oils and polymers \u201cthat cause hair to suffocate.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the kind of knowledge \u201cnot being taught in cosmetology schools\u201d because training is \u201cdriven by product formulations, which focus on making money through temporary results,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But Spring cares most about hair health, and by extension the health of her clients, than profit. She has partnered with Innersense Organic Beauty, a line of clean shampoos, treatments and styling products that she sells at the salon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the cleanest line of hair products in the world,\u201d she said. Clean ingredients means no preservatives, harmful chemicals, or fragrance.<\/p>\n

\u201cManufacturers are allowed to throw in all kinds of ingredients and call them fragrance, and these might include carcinogens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Now Spring is helping people break free from the conventional beauty methods promoted in school.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are using 12 to 20 products every day and have to stop this cycle, because there are health consequences to layering on questionable, highly concerning ingredients,\u201d she said. \u201cThe studies that do exist suggest many of these ingredients disrupt a woman\u2019s hormones and reproductive system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The biggest challenge for Spring was getting money for cosmetology school. She was re-searching various grants and scholarships when she remembered how Innersense assisted its network of stylists with financial help to support them during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI drafted an email to the owners that I was in a highly underserved area, and would they know of any resources for an up-and-coming stylist,\u201d she said. \u201cI had a response in half an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInnersense had just finished developing a scholarship fund and said I could be in the alpha class,\u201d she said. \u201cSo within thirty minutes of deciding to go to cosmetology school, I had tui-tion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spring offers much more than a hair cut. Every experience is an opportunity to educate how to natural products make hair healthier. Her menu of services ranges from a 30-minute color con-sultation to wash and style with or without a haircut to a 12-week comprehensive master-course online.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis program is the culmination of everything I\u2019ve learned,\u201d said Spring. She has studied curly hair techniques \u201cwith the best mentors in the country\u201d and said that her \u201caccelerated learning came from teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no way I\u2019ll be able to keep up with demand, so I\u2019ll take on an apprentice in a year or two,\u201d she said. \u201cThe more curly hair specialists in the community, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spring said that entrepreneurs distinguish themselves by enduring \u201ceven through those peri-ods when you\u2019re feeling this is just not worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGo back to the nine to five,\u201d Spring said. \u201cIt\u2019s the people who push through who make it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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