We Washed Our Hair With Charcoal
Washing your hair with charcoal sounds a bit counterintuitive - after all, when you think charcoal, you think of it as something you wash off your body. But charcoal is being used a lot in wellness products, from soaps to water bottles. We used Cliff Original Activated Charcoal Shampoo curious about what charcoal could do for our hair. This shampoo was formulated to clean and nourish hair, with rosemary oil and vitamins to strengthen hair and promote healthy growth. It’s definitely black as one would expect from a charcoal product, but it has the consistency of a body wash (Huron thick it is not). It also upsettingly doesn’t smell at all like rosemary, a huge missed opportunity to compete with Jack Black’s Turbo Wash trademark eucalyptus. Instead we were left with our nose to our palm trying our damnedest to smell anything - it felt like those Dollar Store bath products that promise to be scented but in reality aren’t at all. There’s nothing more upsetting than to have a product promise something and not deliver. When we did run it through our hair, it didn’t lather at all, and if we were wearing any sort of hair product, it took us two to three washes to get it all the way out. It seemed to work best on hair that didn’t have anything at all in it: in that case, we can say it felt like it cleaned every strand of hair, leaving us with fine, soft hair where every hair felt, well, cleaned. We think this has room for improvement, particularly for $20 a bottle.
