It’s easy enough nowadays to find skincare products for
sensitive skin – Logona FREE, Essential Care, but for some reason still hard to get hold of a good scalp-sensitive
shampoo. I am presenting here a few that we have managed to find, which really
clean your hair, really leave it feeling lovely, and are really sensitive to irritable skin.
A classic tactic for the more delicate-headed among us is to
use a baby shampoo, so I have found the very best of these, an eco-friendly
Baby Shampoo & Body Wash by Weleda. This, and their other baby products,
are made with calendula, a traditional skin-soothing flower. It contains no
synthetic fragrances, colours, or preservatives, so you can be pretty sure it
won’t get your allergies tingling. Best of all, the very third ingredient is
sweet almond oil, my personal favourite for gentle skin moisturising, so it
softens your hair and skin as well as cleaning.
Lavera also do a Baby & Kinder Neutral shampoo. It doesn’t
have the essential oil scents that Weleda use, but then that suits some people
fine. It is BDIH certified (i.e. super incredibly extra pure). It’s a stripped-down simple product that gently and thoroughly gets
the job done without any flowery fuss.
Next we have a product that is for not only delicate but ‘Extremelydry and sensitive skin’ – it is Barefoot SOS from Barefoot Botanicals – a range
specially crafted to rescue you from dermatological emergencies. Their
treatment shampoo packs a powerful punch – willow and chamomile botanical
extracts soothe the scalp, while jojoba and evening primrose oil nourish it
(double whammy). Just in case that doesn’t do the trick, they’ve poured vitamins A, E and B5 to give your hair and scalp a strengthening
nutrient boost. It’s also scented with zingy rosemary and sweet lavender essential
oils, and has a sister-product conditioner that is equally excellent. I am lost
for words. This shampoo does
everything.
Before you get too excited about Barefoot’s scalp-saving SOS shampoo, we have a final contender. Handmade in Suffolk, this shampoo was the
very first one ever to receive Soil
Association Organic Certification - it's Essential Care's Gentle Herb Shampoo. It comprises some botanicals that are found
more in remedies than cosmetics, which heal and soothe a delicate scalp – aloe,
nettle, chamomile, and horsetail. Lesser known in the world of shampoos, these
botanicals in this expert formulation do a truly wonderful job of cleansing and
calming. With no artificial anything, parabens, petrochemicals, or GM
ingredients, it gets a shiny gold star for being uber-natural. And once you’ve used it a few times, you no longer need conditioner – it’s
just that good for your hair.
So you had better make up your own mind, and it won’t be
easy. I think for now I’ll go with Essential Care and their gentle herbs, for starters, and see what I
feel like when that bottle’s empty!
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