I saw some olive oil shampoo and conditioner the other day and wondered if this stuff has the same effect on your hair that the soap does on your skin. Anyone tried this stuff?
if you havent tried olive oil soap and you want skin so soft its shocking I suggest you give it a try, as a guy I dont find it all that important but I was truly amazed what that soap can do.
What company makes olive oil soap?
Jerry Hall (one of the first big supermodels & Jagger’s ex) has always given credit for her beautiful skin to moisturizing with olive oil- based products.
Google “olive oil soap” and there seem to be lots of companies making it, including some vegan sites.
I get mine here: Soap – Greek Olive Imports
Haven’t used anything else since I first tried it. Papoutsanis is the manufacturer.
Soft skin is right. Unbelievable!
Whole Foods near me sells Kiss My Face soap. (I’ve also seen it at most smaller health food stores I’ve been in.) I loooooove it.
http://www.kissmyface.com/content/new_content/story_of_soap4.htm
Making soap out of olive oil is reasonably easy; I’m not sure I believe that it’s the olive oil that makes the difference as opposed to anything else in the formula, but it’s a simple matter of using olive oil as the fat component of the soap. Shampoo is virtually always made out of detergent, not soap, which suggests that olive oil may well be a very minor component, especially since it seems to me that the addition of oil would likely reduce the effectiveness of the detergent. Have you read the ingredients list? Where does it appear on the list? Olive oil is often touted as a good hair conditioner, though I’ve tried it and I tend to find it less effective than real conditioners. There’s no reason it couldn’t be a major component of a conditioner, but I don’t know any reason it would be more effective than any of the other conditioning agents out there.
Hair products are made out of a fairly limited range of chemicals for the most part, and generally the splashy ingredients touted on the label are present in tiny quantities just to make them sound appealing to buyers. All sorts of shampoos and conditioners boast plant extracts and the like, but most of those extracts don’t do a thing for your hair, and are present in miniscule quantities.
I picked up a couple “balls” of olive oil soap at a ren fair type deal a few years back, they were about baseball sized and like a buck 50 each…homemade and seriously the effect was instant and amazing, one shower and I was totally sold on how effective the stuff is.
didnt think to read the ingredient list on the shampoo or conditioner. was really just wondering if anyone had any experience with it. no big deal.
I use the olive shampoo and conditioner from the Body Shop. The shampoo only contains olive leaf extract, no olive oil, while the conditioner contains both olive oil and olive leaf extract. They seem to make my hair softer and shinier, plus it behaves better, so I’m happy. Whether I’ve just been sucked in by the splashy ingredients doesn’t really matter to me as long as I don’t look like a giant frizz ball every time I leave the house.
Addition: I just grabbed my shampoo and conditioner bottles to look at the ingredients. As expected, for the shampoo the olive leaf extract is buried way down the list after all the chemicals, along with other “natural” ingredients, namely honey and wheat amino acids. The conditioner lists olive oil as the third ingredient, after water and cetearyl alcohol, with more extracts down at the end of the list.
But you haven’t even mentioned what brand it is. Since, as I’ve tried to explain, the “olive oil” bit is misdirection, one person’s experience with one brand of olive oil hair product doesn’t mean anything for anyone else’s luck with another brand. The olive oil stuff on the label is literally meaningless - so when you ask about people’s experience with “olive oil shampoo” you’ve got a better shot at a meaningful response if you at least specify which olive oil shampoo. Otherwise, you might as well just ask whether the shampoo in the white bottle will make your hair shiny. The bottle’s claims about olive oil are exactly as meaningful in terms of its effects on your hair as what color plastic the bottle is made from.