We all want hair that looks healthy and feels clean, but finding the right shampoo can be more challenging than it seems!
Many shampoos on the market contain controversial ingredients such as parabens, silicones, or preservatives like phenoxyethanol. These ingredients are increasingly avoided by those seeking cleaner and simpler compositions 🧴
The good news? There are shampoos made with mindful formulas that care for both your hair and the planet 🌿
Here are Yuka’s Top 10 best-rated shampoos, all free from risky ingredients 💚
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Goodness Kids Condition Shampoo - Baylis & Harding
Excellent - 86/100
This shampoo features a plant-based, fragranced formula that’s gentle enough for even the most sensitive or eczema-prone skin. |
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Rosemary Balancing Shampoo - Faith in Nature
Excellent - 86/100
This shampoo is formulated without parabens, silicones, or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, and is enriched with Spanish rosemary oil. |
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Natural Milk Shampoo - MooGoo
Excellent - 86/100
This sulfate-free, family-friendly shampoo features ingredients like milk protein that help support the scalp’s natural balance. |
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Super Softening Shampoo - Clean Curls
Excellent - 86/100
This curly-hair shampoo is formulated with coconut oil and offers a paraben- and silicone-free composition. |
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Scalp Soothing Shampoo - Nizoral
Excellent - 86/100
This gentle shampoo with aloe vera is designed to cleanse while soothing and caring for dry or eczema-prone scalps. |
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Orange & Ginger Shampoo Bar - Eco Warrior
Excellent - 86/100
This solid shampoo bar with pink clay and orange and ginger essential oils cleanses while being free from sulfates, silicones, and parabens. |
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Bare Pure Clean - Head & Shoulders
Excellent - 83/100
This anti-dandruff shampoo for oily scalps is made with a minimalist formula that includes plant-based cleansers and a pH balancer. |
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Biotin & Collagen Shampoo - OGX
Excellent - 79/100
This shampoo with biotin and collagen features a formula free from sulfated surfactants, parabens, phthalates, microplastics, and dyes. |
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Tangle Taming Shampoo - Childs Farm
Excellent - 79/100
This gentle, tear-free shampoo made with plant-based cleansers and strawberry seed oil has a light strawberry and mint fragrance. |
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Curl Enhance Shampoo - Alaffia
Excellent - 79/100
This sulfate-free shampoo made with shea butter, fruit extracts, and chamomile gently cleanses while respecting the scalp’s natural balance. |
Like all our rankings, this one was conducted completely independently, and no brand has paid to be included.
thank you! always looking for kind shampoo
I have recently purchased the OGX collagen shampoo and conditioner following your update about the product. I have to be honest so far it’s the best I have used in a long time. I have always used expensive haircare products and do not get the same results as the OGX
My hair looks so healthy and shiny. I read up on your customer review regarding OGX products and appreciated the reply now leaving me happy to continue using this product. Many thanks for your recommendations .
Many thanks for all the great work Yuka! I love Yuka! Please, can you also include products available in France/Europe in your tests and recommendations? Thank you
Hi Caroline! Thank you for your comment. The recommendations you see in the app follow the country settings of your phone, while the Top Products lists on the website follow the page’s language. If you want to see the French top products, you can switch the website language to French at the bottom of the Top Products page. I hope this helps!
I have used the eco warrior soap bar shampoo for 2 years and love it. Just bought one for a friend and she loves it too.
Suits all types of hair, mine is curly (permed) and my friends is fine and straight. Leaves the hair super shiny
The OGX shampoo is part of a class action lawsuit, claiming it contains DMDM hydantoin, a formaldehyde-releasing preservative that when mixed with water becomes a known human carcinogen. Did you come across this in your research? I’ve been watching so many YouTube videos to learn more about good versus toxic products and just started searching for an App to use to scan food items when I saw your shampoo article. I had just watched the toxic shampoo video last week – I also think Head & Shoulders was part of a lawsuit. Anyway, I’d be curious about your findings.
Hi Holly, thanks for sharing this!
The lawsuits you’ve seen around OGX, Head & Shoulders and similar shampoos concern the U.S. versions of those products. Cosmetic regulations in the United States are much looser, so ingredients like DMDM hydantoin, a formaldehyde-releasing preservative, may appear there.
The formulas we evaluate in this article are the European/UK versions, which often differ and may not contain the same preservatives. This explains the contrast between what you see in U.S. class actions and the ingredient lists we reviewed for the EU market.
I hope this settles your concerns and if you have any more questions, please don’t hesitate to email us at team@yuka.io.
Thank you so much
Very useful information.
How kind of you to do all the hard work for us. Much appreciated. June
Thank you very much. I have forwarded this to my daughters. I have 7 grandchildren and I worry about them.
Can you give details of chemical free make up and facial cleanser, moisturiser
I am losing my hair . Any suggestions for what I can use for fulness to give my hair some body
Have you tried a high frequency device , I started loosing my hair and it helped a lot and very quickly.
I think you should contact your GP. You may lack Vitamins
Could you maybe do best kids moisturiser
Can you also do the best hair care routine. Thank you
Can you also do the best hair care routine. Thank you
Absolutely amazing, really helpful but is there any chance you could do the worst shampoos to use?
I have had some horror stories, products, in fact complete brand lines that myself and my family treasured, loved and respected.
Thank you so much for this. Would there any chance of you posting information on the best/safest body lotions? I’d really appreciate it. Cheers.
Very useful information when choosing a shampoo.
Think your doing an amazing job sharing your knowledge
I now buy deodorant and shampoos that you recommend so Thank you
Thank you for the information
” Faith in nature ” fragrance free 86/100 too🙂
Thank for info
Great info, thank you. I will be looking to change what I am now using.
Confused. Your list Bare Pure Clean Head & Shoulders here as excellent. But, when I scan mine with your Yuka app it says; Bad 20/100. Why this discrepancy?
Hi Shirley, thanks so much for your question!
This Top 10 list is specifically for our UK users. The American version of Bare Pure Clean contains zinc pyrithione, a high-risk ingredient used for dandruff control.
However, the UK and EU versions do not contain this ingredient. Zinc pyrithione has been banned in cosmetic products by the European Commission, and the UK has aligned with this decision through its own cosmetics regulation, which is why the formulation differs between markets.
That said, older stock or non-compliant imports can sometimes still appear, so we always recommend double-checking the label alongside Yuka ☺️
How do i go about buying some of the products?
You can find a lot of them in Ocado
Wonderful informative information
How about Aveeno shampoo and conditioner?
They work absolutely good I recommend
Thank you so much for posting these recommendations. Could you do the same for hair conditioners please? Yuka is a fabulous app,highly informative.
Brilliant, great help!
Can we have conditioner as well please !
And on a different topic, any chance you could look into decaf loose tea as l’m having great difficulty finding any.
Great work, so helpful, thanks very much. Carmel
Thank you for your brilliant work. I have shared your app with my family so they too can make better choices.
This information is imperative in todays world Yuka is fantastic it’s opened my eyes to do much if the rubbish that we pay for . Keep up the good work keep shouting
Can you recommend a shampoo for colour treated hair?
Faith in nature seem to have changed their formulation and have ammonium lauryl sulfate in most if not all of their shampoo now – is the one listed genuinely an outlier or is this an error – that ingredient is ranked as a moderate risk in the app
yes i noticed lots of shampoos were bad and thank you as difficult to find a good one so this helps
Thank you for sharing this
Thank you. Great information. Pleased to hear this and will certainly purchasing a few different 1s .🫶♥️
This is perfect for me as I’m a hairdresser and very conscious of products going onto my hands but also reading what would be best for my clients. Thank you for doing the research
Thank you really helpful.
Matbe I make a mistake apologies if I dd. But I thought I had read correctly
Only curls, was a shampoos earlier this week, it’s just arrived. And I have scanned it . U now have it as poor?Don’t understand, as I trust u ?
Hi Julia, thanks for your comment!
Would you mind emailing us at team@yuka.io with a photograph of the barcode and ingredients list so that we may investigate this?
Thank you in advance!
Thank you for showing some ‘good’ shampoos. It’s amazing what baddies there are in our every day use products.
what are the best non fragranced shampoos Please?
I Struggle to find the things you recommend in the shops
Thank you some really useful info on the different shampoos listed.
I just have a query as someone who is allergic to fragrance as well as some of the other compounds (most of the shampoos listed contain fragrance). Most of the substances listed in the product info of each of the listed shampoos however are classed as ‘medium risk’ as could be an irritant. Fragrance is classed as ‘low risk’ yet there are quite a few people who are allergic to fragrance.
Are there any recommended shampoos that are also fragrance free? – many thanks
Thank you Julie. I have been searching on hair products. This will help me to select appropriate for me.
Thank you for info- I’ve been looking for good shampoos that don’t cost a fortune for a while ! I trust in Yuka 🥕❤️
Thank you Julie, this App has made a real difference to the way we shop and we feel confident that we are healthier as a consequence.
Thank you so much!
This is very interesting and helpful, I shall swop to one of them for myself, and buy and buy my Granddaughter childs Farm shampoo.
Thank you so much for helping us go through the mine field of different products full of carsonogenics we have to deal with these days.
For me it’s not just about the harmful chemicals, it’s also about one use plastic.
So thank you for including the Eco Warrior solid bar shampoo 👍
Thank you dear, I am going first to try
Nizoral shampoo.
I wouldn’t wash a rat in OGX products they’re lethal in the long term
Agree OGX shampoos are not safe.
Thank you, so helpful X
You have changed my life – for the better. Thank you!
Have you looked at minimal products?
That’s what I use. Makes my hair so shiny and really cheap from TK Maxx 😃
Thanks for the info. We use Yuka constantly.
Fantastic range of shampoos to try . I will definitely try one also my grand-daughter as she has a very dry scalp .
Hi Good day,
Thank you for your feed,
This is truly appreciated, now its a go and get this one or that cause you know which ones are good for your hair, normally you’d stand at the isle scanning the ingredients,
Thank you
Hi, have you tried Selkie shampoo and conditioner? They are natural and no plastic either. I’d like to know your opinion about it. As I’ve used it and it worked well for my hair.
Thank you great information about the shampoo’s
There is a YouTube video that talks about 7 shampoos to avoid at all costs.
One if the shampoos it mentions is biotin with collagen. It damages your hair in the long run.
Check out the video
Hi Saida,
Thanks for your comment!
Yuka rates products only by the health risks of their ingredients, not by effectiveness or long-term performance like hair breakage. That being said, your feedback is really helpful, and we will look into how user experiences could be better integrated in the future.
Thanks for responding. I think you should stick to health risks, the other issues vary greatly from person to person that it would be a minefield to dabble into it. You are doing great work already!
Thanks for the information. Do you have any recommendations for hair conditioner, hair mask, mouse and dry shampoo?
TIA
Thanks very much, I’ve been looking for a new shampoo. Must give some of these a go.
This is interesting. Some of this brand is full of rubbish & others when you scan with Yuka come up ‘green’.
Waitrose Pure range comes up positively too.
Great information, thank you.
I will definitely check out some of these!
try coconut milk from ogg
I switched to The Cornish Seaweed Bath company products over a year ago. You should check them out. They have no chemicals and are made with seaweed! The shampoo & conditioner are great and have really made my hair shine. The soap is lively too.
https://cornishseaweedbath.co.uk/pages/black-friday
What about grey hair. Us oldies like to take care of our hair!
Excellent preview. I will surely explore the market. I have been struggling to find a good brand of shampoo for my hair. I love Yuka
Hi Kondis,
Thanks for your comment! We hope this list will help you in your search 💚
Thank you very much for the information. I’ve been confidently using Faith in Nature shampoo for several years now, and I’m very happy with it. My hair is shiny and silky, I recommend it.
Thank you sooo much. I have gotten a couple friends to download this App last month & it’s fun to shop with, it’s exciting for us friends to discuss our findings & the new products the App has turned us onto w’eachother!!
Hi Beverly,
So glad you’re having fun with the app! We love that it’s become a group activity 🤩
Thank you sooo much. I have gotten a couple friends to download this App last month & it’s fun to shop with, it’s exciting for us friends to discuss our findings & the new products the App has turned us onto w’eachother!!
I use nizoral and I like it for cleaning my eczema prone scalp and yes it helps to sooth it.
Very helpful. Thanks.
Brilliant
Thank you
It would be very useful if you said whether or nor product were tested on animals, animal ingredients etc. Thanks
Hi Paula, thank you for sharing your thoughts! At the moment, Yuka does not include cruelty-free criteria in our product ratings. We focus exclusively on health and ingredient risks. That said, we are actively exploring how to integrate cruelty-free information in a future version of the app.
In the meantime, you can look for these labels on packaging:
• Leaping Bunny – The strictest cruelty-free standard internationally
• PETA Beauty Without Bunnies – Cruelty-free, sometimes vegan too
• Choose Cruelty-Free (CCF) – Australian certification
• Cruelty-Free International – Uses the Leaping Bunny symbol
• Vegan Society – Ensures no animal-derived ingredients
I hope this helps!
The Faith in Nature shampoo made my hair incredibly dry and notty. No good for me.
Thanks for sharing. Was going to try their shampoo but have found their hand soap to be v drying so put me off ….