Sulfate free shampoo

[quote]Most soap lather is artificially created because of customer demand, not because it is needed for cleaning. Retailers of soaps and shampoos see the opportunity to make their products look better by claiming that more lather equals cleaner body parts. It’s very inexpensive to put chemicals into soaps to make them lather unnecessarily, and the result is that we end up smearing more toxins onto our bodies than is healthy, all for the misconception of being cleaner.

Agreed. I use Aveda Invati, and I don't feel it does a great job cleaning either.

Once every few weeks I use Jo Malone Shampoo- Lime Basil and Mandarine. It is LOADED with sulfates but smells so damn good, has great suds, and makes my hair look thick as fuck.

Oh fucking eat me. ^^ mandarin.

Mandarine sounds good though!

I use sulfate-free Pantene, Aveda and Biolage.

Fels-Naptha soap. “The golden bar with the clean naptha odor”.

Sulfate free Pantene is great.

OGX and Cake are good alternatives to the expensive salon lines, although I wouldn’t say they are cheap. I’ve used sulfate-free shampoo for years and I know my hair is much better off with it. Sulfates are far too drying.

Love you OP for bringing this up. Have been wondering lately how to manage my unruly mane 🦁

Having thick wavy spiral dry/frizzy 2B hair down to my back is nice, but it’s so tough finding cleaning and conditioning that works on it. Neither SLS or SLS-free products seem to work well—regardless, my hair comes out of washing and conditioning as a dull greasy staticky fraying mess. The most noticeable success I’ve had with a shampoo is with Dr. Organics Honey line, but even that gave only mild/moderate improvement.

Speaking recently to a hippie friend with manageable hair, she recommended me trying products from the green companies Original Sprout, Pureology, Scruples and Wen—I haven’t used any of these yet, so I can’t comment. She also said that back in her youthful salon days (before she got into eco and economical cosmetics) she rated RedKen, Vidal Sassoon and Christophe Robin products.

I use Suave, because it's cheap. I've been using their Moroccan Infusion Color Care Shampoo recently. I like that it's been infused by a Moroccan.

Thoughts on Olaplex? And Oribe?

Overhyped, or actually effective?

I have not used Oribe since 2017 or so- but that was my shit from 2013 until then, It was great stuff. Oribe died, so I don't want to use it anymore It creeps me out.

I would rather use Prell than a dead man's shampoo.