What Goes into Shampoos?

People used to boil soap in water to create the very earliest shampoos that we would recognize. But what about before soap? Before that it was made from rice and straw ash mixed with water to form some sort of hair potion. The first person who is credited to have made shampoo is Herbert Kasey.

Todays shampoo is made from water, sodium laureth and other chemicals. The common argument against shampoo is that as well as taking the dirt out of your hair it also strips some of the necessary oils out of it. Over time you will need to keep using shampoo more often to maintain good looking hair due to the naturally appearing oils produced by the scalp which are stripped away. For this reason there are a number of organic shampoos on the market.

Organic shampoos are made from natural ingredients such as plants and oils. Aloe Vera is one oil which is particularly popular in shampoos. There are lots of different types of organic shampoos made from mint, lavender oil, pomegranate and cinnamon to name a few. The good thing about organic products is that you can relax about what the shampoo is doing to your hair and scalp. Unless you have any allergies its only going to beneficial.

Look out for small print which can claim that the shampoo is actually only seventy to eighty percent organic. There is a brand of shampoo named Hempz which is created entirely from hemp seed oil but this is not often the case.

Shampoos can claim to be organic if they have more than seventy percent naturally occurring ingredients within the product. It wouldn't be far fetched to assume that an organic shampoo is only made from organic products but that is often the case these days. Consumers are increasingly aware of the chemicals that are included in products and are often looking for environmentally friendliness as well as value.