Silicone Free Shampoo

To know what a silicone free shampoo is, it is best to start telling you what silicones actually are. Silicones are synthetic ingredients designed to keep your hair soft and smooth. Especially shampoos and products meant for curly hair or chemically treated hair contain silicones because of these properties.

The downside is that silicones form a layer around the hair strands and that makes the hair impenetrable. That means that healthy and nourishing ingredients cannot get through and deliver their nutrients to the hair follicles.

Not all silicones are the same. A distinction is made between water soluble silicones and ones that are not. The cosmetic industry designed silicones that have the pleasant properties but are no longer impenetrable.

You can recognize silicones that are not water soluble by looking on your ingredient list and looking for ingredients that end in ‘cone.’ Some well-known examples are dimethicone and cyclomethicone. So, if you want a silicone free shampoo, you should avoid ingredients that end in ‘cone.’ Below on this page you will find all our silicone free shampoos.

Examples of silicones that are water soluble usually end with copolyol, like dimethicone copolyol. And when the abbreviation PEG precedes a regular silicone, like PEG-8 Dimethicone, that also means it is a water-soluble silicone.

Silicone free shampoos for men

In the product list below, we decided only to show completely silicone free shampoos. So, these shampoos do also not contain water soluble silicones, like the ones ending with copolyol or preceded by PEG. That way we can keep it orderly, and you know for sure that your shampoo is silicone free.

When you use the filters, you can select silicone free shampoos that are also paraben and sulphate free. That way you can pick a shampoo without any silicones, parabens, or sulphates.