Shampoo in the test: With these brands, the hair is cared for sustainably

Wash your hair with shampoo or is it better to use hair soap more sustainably?

Sustainable care products for hair tested by Stiftung Warentest.

• Stiftung Warentest * tested 18 different hair products.

• Most of them achieved the grade “good” in the test. 

• The Stiftung Warentest also took a closer look at the eco-balance of the hair products.

Kassel - The

has in a

examines various products, consumers to wash their

use.

In the

in addition to the classic liquid shampoo were also solid shampoos and soaps that extra for the

are determined.

The

has tested the products as always tested for various properties.

This time

the ecological balance was also taken into account

during the

. 

Stiftung Warentest: Various hair products tested 

 Eight liquid shampoos were

among the 18 products

by

.

The other

products

were soaps or solid shampoos. 

A total of 14 pieces managed

to get the grade “good”

in the

.

Only one product in the

for

was rated as sufficient.

Stiftung Warentest: Test examined various criteria - the hair was analyzed by professionals after use 

In the

by

, different criteria were again included in the overall assessment.

The care properties for the

made up the largest part of the test

.

Here,

after rinsing the

, the experts from

evaluate

 its properties - such as its detangibility, grip or volume. 

This category made up 50 percent of the overall rating of the respective product.

During the

, the products were anonymized so that the testers could not see which product they were currently testing. 

Stiftung Warentest: The applicability was also rated in the test

As a further category, the people in the

by

the applicability of the products for washing

.

This judgment made a full 30 percent of the overall rating.

The remaining 20 percent of the overall rating was formed by evaluating the packaging, the advertisements and the declaration on the product itself.

In addition, it was examined whether the critical fragrance

in the products.

The

the products was

also examined

by

, separately from the actual

. 

Stiftung Warentest: That was the front runner in the test for the hair 

In the

by

, all liquid shampoos were given an overall rating of good.

However, some of the liquid

care products have

 also been found to contain substances that are not necessarily recommended.

Preservatives were only found in the liquid products.

Even substances that are difficult to biodegrade could only be found in liquid shampoos. 

The front runner among the liquid products comes from the discounter Lidl.

The vitamin shampoo for normal hair achieved a rating of 1.9.

This makes it the only product in the

that managed to get a 1 before the decimal point in the overall rating. 

Stiftung Warentest: In the test, when it comes to using one of the solid products for the hair, it comes out on top 

In contrast, when it comes to use, one of the solid shampoos in the

at the top.

The testers from

rated the use of “Honey I washed my hair honey sweet” from

 with a grade of 1.5.

In terms of packaging, too, the product achieved a “very good” rating. 

However, the most expensive product for

at eleven euros

was the only one to lose in the

for the critical fragrance Lilial.

Here it was the only product that only scored “sufficient”.

The Consumer

 Safety

Committee of the

classifies the use of Lilial in cosmetic products as unsafe.

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Stiftung Warentest: Test unmasked a sham package among the products for the hair 

Another outlier in the

by

is the "Natur All Hair Types" hair soap from

.

In the declaration and advertising claims category, the product, which costs just 15 cents per hair wash, only achieved a poor rating of 5.0.

The provider advertised, among other things, that his product was free from fragrances, but the experts from

able to prove several in exactly this product.

In addition, the soap's rating is lowered due to the lack of advice to use acidic rinse.

When using hair soap, the use of such a rinse is expressly recommended.

This rinse of water and vinegar helps against the so-called "lime soap", which is created due to the lime content in the water. 

Stiftung Warentest: In the test, all soaps in the packaging category were great 

In the category of packaging in were able to

by

all soaps for the

are determined to achieve a very good rating.

In contrast, the experts at

became aware of a sham packaging for a solid shampoo from Foamie. 

This earned the product “Foamie - Solid Shampoo Normal Hair” a grade of 5 in the packaging category.

The soap's packaging simulated more than it actually contained.

Stiftung Warentest: The eco-balance in the test was clearly better for the soaps 

When

the eco-balance,

compared,

among other things, the environmental impact of washing

with liquid and solid shampoo or soap.

During the

they came

to the conclusion that both are equally harmful here. 

However, the environmental impact of the liquid shampoo in terms of production and transport is many times higher than that of the solid alternative. 

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In the

, one app was rated “poor”. 

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