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  • Top-seller for 13 years
  • Cleans hair thoroughly without stripping to provide superior shine
  • Fresh natural scent from lavender, peppermint & rosemary essential oils

13 years ago, we launched our company with five products; this perennially best-selling shampoo is one of them. It's gentle yet thorough and is an outstanding everyday shampoo for most hair types. (If you have especially dry, damaged, color-treated or thinning hair, you might want to check out our Replenishing shampoo.)

The reason this shampoo is so popular is that it leaves your hair shiny and full of body, and because using it is a nice experience--it smells fantastic, not like chemicals, because it's naturally scented. It works and smells great because we spend money on the ingredients, not on trying to get you to buy it by advertising.  Brands like Kiehls and Aveda sell for the same price as us but spend a fraction of what we do on ingredients. (Check out their ads in fashion magazines and you'll see where the moneys going. Also, Kiehls is owned by L'Oreal and Aveda by Estee Lauder, both of which are publicly traded and ultimately answer to stockholders, not customers.)

That's how we're different. We answer to no one but you. And unlike theirs, our shampoo is scented only with all-natural essential plant oils, including French lavender, Tunisian rosemary and Washington peppermint, not artificial laboratory "fragrance" that actually damages natural hair. Unlike theirs, ours has no artificial colors or dyes. Ours contains built-in conditioners that make hair soft, bouncy and shiny, even when you don't condition. Our shampoo is extremely concentrated, so a little goes a long way. The premium rice and soy proteins fortify each hair shaft, while miracle ingredient Panthenol is absorbed by the hair to make it softer, smoother and shinier. That's important, because Panthenol is one of the few substances that actually stays in the hair shaft rather than simply evaporating as the hair dries. Because it's so expensive, however, it's been "cost contained" out of most shampoo formulations.

Importantly, our shampoo doesn't produce gigantic whorls of lather, because even though weve all been trained to believe foamy lather is a sign of clean hair, it's actually a sign you're shampooing with cheap bubble bath. 

Compare to The Art of Shaving's essential oil-based shampoo with rosemary and peppermint, $20 for 8 ounces (45% more per ounce).

10oz/296ml

Usage Instructions

Thoroughly wet your hair. Apply a small amount of shampoo to your palms and work through the hair, gently massaging with the fingertips, not the fingernails, which can damage the hair and scalp, especially for those with thinning hair. Make sure to work through completely, but do not expect voluminous lather and do not add more product to generate such lather, which only strips the hair, making it brittle, dull and lifeless. Rinse. Do not repeat. Condition as necessary (if your hair is generally dry, flyaway, dull, etc.)

Ingredients

Distilled water, ammonium lauryl sulfate, cocamide DIPA, glycerine, cocamidopropyl betaine, propylene glycol, French lavender essential oil, Washington peppermint essential oil, Tunisian rosemary essential oil, calendula extract, green tea extract, hydrolyzed oat, rice & soy protein, Panthenol, yarrow extract, burdock extract, matricara extract, Disodium EDTA, Ammonium chloride, Guar hydroxypropyl trimonium chloride, Polyquaternium-7, Sodium hydroxymethyglycinate, citric acid, bitter orange extract.

People who like it

say it smells better and "more natural, not sickly sweet" than anything they've ever used, that it makes their hair look better than ever before, that they're surprised by how long a bottle lasts/how little they need to use

People who didn't like it

didn't like the scent, prefer shampoos that provide more lather and stronger fragrance

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