What To Look For When Choosing
Natural Hair Care

Natural hair care companies are working hard to prove that all those chemicals being used in many of our products are not necessary for great looking hair.

Every morning we get up and start our day worrying about our hair. I don't have to tell you how strongly we feel about our hair. We are all after a good hair day and we have been known to do many crazy things for beautiful hair.

I remember as a teen trying to sleep with jumbo rollers in my hair so it would be perfect by morning. Those were rough nights but that's nothing. More often than not our attempts to create beautiful hair involved using chemicals from perming, bleaching, coloring and straightening to hairsprays, gels or mousses.

So many hair care choices.

Companies have been only too happy to provide us with any kind of products we could possibly want. Just one trip down the hair care aisle at your favorite store and you'll find a dizzying number of choices. Do I want soft and silky or body? Need help with dry fly away hair or getting rid of grey. More and more new products all the time with all kinds of claims.

An equally dizzying array of chemicals have also found their way in to our hair care products so that what we are using doesn't resemble anything natural. But to look at the front label on the bottle you might think different.

Products claiming natural or herbal are everywhere. But read the back label. After a long list of chemicals near the bottom you may find something like apple extract or vitamin E and this product is calling itself natural hair care.

Hair care manufacturers have come to rely on chemicals to get the results we want cheaply. As we learn about the negative effects of some of these chemicals, more of us are looking for natural hair care products that can be just as effective as their chemical counterparts and a whole lot healthier.

Making a better choice.

When you choose a good natural hair product and read the label there are a few things you should notice about it.

They should contain natural or organic ingredients. In some cases this is a very long list. With all those different ingredients it helps that companies like the ones below make their labels and their ingredient list very understandable.

You can also check the safety of ingredients of many different hair care products on my favorite resource the Skin Deep database. It's really
helpful if an ingredient is not recognizable to you. I have mistakenly thought an ingredient was synthetic only to find out that it really was safe and natural.

A couple of brands to get you started:

Max Green Alchemy
This is a small relatively new company offering personal care products that are truly natural, 100% plant based, using as many organic ingredients as possible. They have a line of hair care products that are getting good reviews from customers. I am one of their happy customers.

Aubrey Organics
A good selection of all kinds of natural hair care products and styling aids. They have a long tradition of providing excellent natural, and I mean natural and frequently organic, safe skin and personal care products.


Giving up chemically laden hair care is not easy especially if you have brands you really like. Make an informed decision, find out what's in your product. Is it worth it?

Finding new natural hair care products is getting easier as more companies respond to our concerns. But don't expect most big name brands to be the ones to make the changes, many of them have not given up animal testing and that's been an issue for years.

So when you are looking for natural hair care products, look to the smaller companies for great, safe, natural products and beautiful hair.

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