Products without Sodium laureth/laurel sulphate

[Iggle Piggle]

Can anyone suggest shampoo/shower gel/bubble bath without the ubiquitous Sodium Laurel Sulphate?
If you look at ingredients, this chemical is in almost everything that foams up or bubbles and it is a powerful industrial de-greaser.
I don't agree with rubbing industrial chemicals into my body and hair every morning and am looking for a healthier substitute for me and my kids.
Maybe good old fashioned soap, but what about shampoo?
let me know your thoughts.

[boxtops]

Have you tried products like the Simple range? http://www.simple.co....e-story/timeline.aspx

[bednobs]

http://www.google.co....TqOkM&ved=0CGUQ8wIwAQ
ive got a tigi one that's in a yellow bottle. Can't yhink what it's called though

[sara3]

the Naked hair products are free from those ingredients. I use Naked Bounce for my curly hair :o)

you can buy it in Boots.

[sara3]

http://www.nakedbodycare.co.uk/

[gingejbee]

Powerful industrial degreaser? SLS is a detergent - in huge amounts it will do tough cleaning jobs and in low concentrations will do gentler cleaning jobs- like removing grease and dirt from skin and hair. Your comments re SLS are unwarranted and misinformed.

[Maydup]

I use SLS free products such as Faith in Nature handsoap, shampoo and shower gel . I also have a Jason shampoo and conditioner which is lovely and rich. I like to alternate them. I buy both from the local health food shop but I know you can them them online too.

http://www.faithinnat...5zsyqsCFcMOfAodXxqt3Q

http://www.jasonnatur...-conditioner-p33.aspx

[sara3]

SLS is the main ingredient in most shampoos and washing-up liquid!

[Maydup]

Its perfectly possible to live a chemical free life at home.

Ecover and Faith in Nature make everything from washing up liquid to car shampoo and limescale remover without the use of chemicals. All of which are safe when washed into our drainage systems and waterways. Most supermarkets stock a selection of them, but local health food stores and online shops stock the full range. I haven't bought bleach now for over 20 years nor have I cleaned my teeth with toothpaste made with sugar!

http://www.ecogreenst...prxyqsCFYUKfAodyXGn2w

http://www.ecover.com/gb/en/About/

[gingejbee]

maidup: if you were to look at the links that you have posted, you will see that the products made by them all contain "chemicals" including the ubiquitous SLS. That's what these products are - mixtures of different ingredients, which uninformed people keep calling "chemicals".

[Maydup]

Apologies - the Kingfisher toothpaste was an incorrect link, it does indeed contain SLS, but Faith in Nature products do not.

http://www.faithinnat...al-Ingredients-Issues

[annie0000]

This range is meant for kids but perfectly acceptable for adults too:

http://www.halosnhorns.co.uk/

[Iggle Piggle]

Thanks for all the replies and web links. It seems I am certainly not alone in avoiding chemicals these days. I wonder why the major manufacturers are not listening?

[Maydup]

Petro-chemical industries are all powerful iggle piggle.

[gingejbee]

I do hope that the OP doesn't drink any alcohol (ethanol being an industrial chemical) and doesn't ingest any salt at all (sodium chloride another industrial chemical). And, as for hair dye...well!

[Iggle Piggle]

ginge, I don't drink alcohol, you're right ! Vodka always smells like Isopropyl alcohol - another solvent/cleaner. And I try to keep salt ingestion to a minimum.
I don't mind naturally occurring products but it is the refined and blended chemicals I am opposed to and the marketing that goes with them, almost forcing us to use them, and getting the resultant itchy scalp, etc.

[nungate]

Try the Liz Earle range of products - available on the shopping channel QVC
They have a website qvc.co.uk. John Lewis also stock her stuff and I think she also has her own website but I don't know that address

[erin-x]

I was going to recommend LUSH but on further inspection nearly all of their products contain Sodium Laurel Sulphate. =/