What to Do When You Forget to Pack Your Favorite Non-toxic Shampoo

Oops…

On our recent family trip to the beach, I completely forgot to pack my favorite shampoo and conditioner: Hugo Naturals Volumizing Shampoo, Vanilla and Sweet Orange.

There was absolutely no shampoo available at the beach house, either.

Since I’d also completely forgotten to pack a few other beach house essentials, like paper towels, hand soap, etc., a grocery run was in order.

Our beach town–Bethany Beach, Delaware–actually has a fantastic natural foods store, where I’m certain I could have found a good brand of shampoo.

Trouble was, the regular grocery store was closer and most of the other things I needed to pick up would be much less expensive there than at the specialty shop.

What to do?

So.  There I was at Giant: standing in front of the “natural” section of the hair care aisle, staring at the limited selection and having absolutely no idea which shampoo was best.

Truly, I could have just picked up whatever and used it for the few days we’d be at the beach.  But I couldn’t stand the thought of wasting most of a bottle of shampoo, nor could I stand the thought of using a whole bottle of shampoo with sketchy ingredients.

So what did I do?

Smartphone & EWG to the rescue

I whipped out my smartphone, pulled up EWG’s SkinDeep Cosmetics Database and proceeded to look up each “natural” shampoo.

I was surprised that a few of the products I’d have deemed safe scored higher ratings than I’d feel comfortable using on a regular basis.  As I recall, there was also one or two reasonably safe products that cost more than I was hoping to pay.

Finally, I found one that had a relatively low score and a decent price: Kiss My Face Whenever Shampoo.  I bought the shampoo and the conditioner and headed back to the beach house.

Whew!

The bottom line:

• I thought the Kiss My Face Whenever duo performed just as well as my normal shampoo/conditioner.
• The smell was fine, but not as great as that of my normal products.
• The price was very reasonable, for a “natural” brand at a regular grocery store.
• I was thankful for smartphone technology, as well as EWG’s super-helpful database!

 What’s your favorite non-toxic shampoo?