The bottle is difficult to open and manage.
Using Moroccanoil Clarifying Shampoo, you'll be hitting the reset button, lifting away environmental impurities, chlorine traces, mineral deposits, and everything that turns your hair lifeless. The shampoo also tames your hair (including curly hair) and makes it feel fresh.
For all hair types, including color-treated hair (safe for sensitive skin too)
Argan Oil, Avocado Oil, Keratin, Panthenol, Lavender, Rosemary, Chamomile, and Jojoba Extracts
Apply to wet hair. Lather. Rinse. Follow with a Moroccanoil conditioner or mask.
Sulfate-free, phosphate-free, paraben-free, cruelty-free
8.5 fl. oz. (33.8 fl. oz. also available)
The formula uses mica for improving your hair's shine and promoting its restoration. The hydrolyzed wheat proteins will be able to protect your hair from sunlight and its harmful effects. The witch hazel extract tames down frizzy hair and adds volume.
Leaves a slippery residue when not washed out thoroughly.
Kenra Clarifying Shampoo will be able to eliminate dulling deposits and brighten highlighted, bleached, and gray hair. The shampoo provides deep cleansing but without decreasing the moisture levels and without causing any irritations.
For all hair types, including color-treated hair (safe for sensitive skin too)
Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Aloe Vera Plant Extract, Witch Hazel Extract, Grapefruit Extract, Blueberry Fruit Extract
Apply to wet hair. Lather. Rinse.
Paraben-free, cruelty-free
10.1 fl. oz. (33.8 fl. oz. also available)
Adopting panthenol, the shampoo will be alleviating irritations, itchiness, and redness. The white ginger flower extract will balance the sebum production. The algae extract will be used to unclog hair follicles and give the hair tensile strength.
A bit thin and watery consistency.
Customers whose hair is oily and/or greasy will find Paul Mitchell Shampoo Two the most fitting choice. Using this product, you'll be able to cleanse the scalp, reduce oil production, and make your hair not only look great but feel great too.
For oily hair, including color-treated hair (safe for sensitive skin too)
Panthenol, White Ginger Flower Extract, Wheat Germ Oil, Jojoba Oil, Algae Extract, Aloe Vera Leaf Extract, Rosemary Leaf Extract
Apply to wet hair. Lather. Rinse.
Paraben-free, cruelty-free
10.14 fl. oz. (16.9 fl. oz. and 33.8 fl. oz. also available)
The shampoo is practically weightless, so you can use it daily without worrying about it building up. The product's fragrance is clean and refreshing and will linger for hours. The dispenser makes it easy to squeeze out the precise shampoo amount you want.
Has an overpowering scent.
Suave Daily Clarifying Shampoo is an affordable yet effective product. The shampoo removes residue without drying your hair. The pH-balanced formula will not have any negative effects on even the most sensitive skin.
For all hair types, including color-treated hair (safe for sensitive skin too)
Mostly chemical formula
Apply to wet hair. Lather. Rinse. Follow with Suave Daily Clarifying Conditioner.
PH-balanced, paraben-free, cruelty-free
12 fl. oz.
Dries the hair out.
ACURE Curiously Clarifying Shampoo will be able to replenish hair and add volume without weighing the hair down. Its 100% vegan formula without mineral oils, petrolatum, and formaldehyde makes this product the safest shampoo on this list.
For all hair types, including color-treated hair (safe for sensitive skin too)
Lemongrass Oil, Argan Oil
Apply to wet hair. Lather. Rinse.
Paraben-free, sulfate-free, mineral oil-free, petrolatum-free, formaldehyde-free, cruelty-free
8 fl. oz.
Hit the Reset Button
Moroccanoil Clarifying Shampoo allows you to hit the reset button. This shampoo is able to lift away everyday buildups that leave the hair lifeless, dull and limp. From different hair products to chlorine, mineral deposits, various environmental impurities, the shampoo removes them. Then, the deep-cleansing formula introduces keratin, chamomile extracts, jojoba extracts, lavender, argan and avocado oils, providing nourishment and making your hair weightless again.
Adding more, the product is fragranced, offering the company's signature Moroccanoil scent that blends sweet floral notes and spicy amber aromas to make you smell irresistible. Besides that, jojoba oil balances the body's pH levels, smoothes out hair cuticles, and gives your locks extra volume. Meanwhile, the botanical keratin extracts heal damaged hairs, filling them with vitamins and various healthy microelements.
The bottle can be difficult to open and the output is not easy to manage. The upside is the formula's sulfate-, phosphate-, and paraben-free composition that has not been tested on animals.
In other words, Moroccanoil Clarifying Shampoo is excellent at taking care of your hair, leaving it healthy, shiny, and weightless.
Dulling Deposits Removed
Kenra Clarifying Shampoo is great at eliminating dulling deposits. The shampoo restores your hair's natural radiance and removes buildups. What's more, this product offers deep cleansing without drying your hair. Needless to say, what defines this shampoo is its rich, well-balanced formula.
To begin with, the product's formulated with mica, enhancing the shine and promoting restoration. Aside from mica, the shampoo contributes hydrolyzed wheat protein, protecting the hair from harmful UV rays. Then, aloe vera extracts take center stage, calming itchy scalps, removing oils, strengthening and repairing strands, and promoting hair growth. When aloe vera is done, the shampoo unleashes witch hazel extracts, taming down the frizziest hair and adding volume to fine hair. To conclude this chapter, the product brings grapefruit and blueberry extracts, loading your hair with vitamins and antioxidants to increase blood flow and minimize hair loss.
The shampoo leaves a slippery residue when not washed out thoroughly but, apart from that, Kenra Clarifying Shampoo is what you need to not only bring back your hair's sheen and sparkle but also keep it that way, nourished and protected from harmful elements.
Treating the Scalp Too
Paul Mitchell Shampoo Two ticks most boxes despite coming at an affordable price. The shampoo is able to minimize oil production and add some body to lifeless hair. Its formula will be cleansing the scalp and oily hair, leaving the hair feeling fresh and looking shiny. The formula's deep-cleansing composition excels at washing away buildups without affecting the moisture levels.
Featuring panthenol, the product is also able to alleviate redness and irritations, making the shampoo an excellent fit for sensitive skin. While that's happening, the white ginger flower extract will be managing the body's sebum production to make sure the hair does not end up looking oily and greasy. To add more, the formula's composition includes an algae extract. This ingredient is fantastic at unclogging hair follicles, giving your hair tensile strength, and making the hair strands stronger at the root. Last but not least, the product uses a rosemary leaf extract to rejuvenate and nourish the scalp, promoting hair growth.
The shampoo's consistency is thin and runny. Even taking that into account though, Paul Mitchell Shampoo Two is a really good clarifying shampoo for people with oily and greasy hair, might even be the best at this price.
Not Weighing You Down
Suave Daily Clarifying Shampoo will help you look suave, so the company's name is justifiable. Using this shampoo, you'll be removing residue without stripping out moisture. Its formula is weightless, so you won't have to worry about the shampoo building up and weighing the hair down. The formula is also pH-balanced, which means the product will not negatively affect your skin.
Before anything else, the shampoo is gentle, cleansing, revitalizing, and making your hair shine without causing redness and itchiness. Its fresh fragrance lingers long after you leave the shower, which some might find appealing but some might also find the scent overpowering, so this is where we have conflicting opinions.
We do not have conflicting opinions about the bottle though. First, volume-wise, the bottle is filled with 12 fluid ounces of the product, so you're paying less than $0.9 per fluid ounce. Second, the bottle comes equipped with a practical dispenser that allows you to easily squeeze the precise amount of shampoo you need.
All things considered, Suave Daily Clarifying Shampoo will be bringing out the natural beauty of your hair, providing deep cleansing, and is suitable for all hair types, including oily hair too.
Replenishing and Boosting the Shine
There's nothing particularly curious about ACURE Curiously Clarifying Shampoo. Everything that this shampoo does is pretty straightforward. Sure, the 100% vegan formula is somewhat unusual but not that unique these days. The fact that the formula is paraben-, sulfate-, petrolatum-, formaldehyde-, and mineral oil-free is not necessarily unique too but this is not when uniqueness is especially important.
What's important is that the shampoo is quite good at washing away buildups of different products without stripping your hair of its moisture. On the contrary, packing 100% pure argan oil, the shampoo replenishes your hair and boosts its shine. At the same time, lemongrass oil reduces hair loss, refreshes your hair, and gives it a mild sweet scent.
Having said that, despite introducing argan oil, sometimes the shampoo will dry hair out, so we would not recommend using it daily before figuring out its effect on your hair. All you have to do is apply this product to wet hair, lather, and rinse every second day to assess its effects.
In closing, ACURE Curiously Clarifying Shampoo might not be the most well-rounded and comprehensive product but it is definitely one of the safest shampoos out there, so you cannot go wrong giving this one a shot. Worst-case scenario, you'll find its effects insufficient.
What Is a Clarifying Shampoo?
Beautiful hair is something we all want and those who have it usually have to work hard to maintain it. Sometimes, working hard means using multiple products, which's fine if that is what you have to do. The issue here is that these products, even the best ones, leave a residue. This is where clarifying shampoos come in.
Using these shampoos, you're able to remove that residue, from different hair care products that leave traces to chlorine, hard water fragments, mineral deposits, certain environmental impurities, and more. Without these elements, your hair becomes weightless again, radiant and full of life.
Of course, we're talking about products that are formulated with different ingredients so, aside from cleansing your hair, some shampoos will promote hair growth, some will shield your hair from UV radiation, some will be unclogging hair follicles, whereas others will be regulating oil secretion and making the hair less greasy. More often than not, these shampoos are compatible with natural hair and color-treated hair too.
Sure, they're not as good at preventing hair loss as these professional hair loss shampoos and not as good at treating greasy hair as these shampoos for greasy hair, but this is understandable.