What is the Best Organic Shampoo?

What is the Best Organic Shampoo?This is one in a series of articles where we will address eco-friendly hair care related topics. This installment answers the question, What is the Best Organic Shampoo?

As an eco-chic company in the salon industry, we get a lot of questions like:

What is the best organic shampoo for my hair type?
Which organic shampoo will contain plant-derived ingredients, and still perform well?
How can I achieve the same look my hairstylist created, while using natural, eco-friendly products at home?

Well, we have answers for you. First and foremost, when deciding the best organic shampoo is, it’s so important to feel good about your hair and leave the house feeling confident. We created two shampoos with organic ingredients because we wanted to give our customers the most natural products possible, that also work at a professional level. Whether you’re a hairstylist or using the product at home, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice wholesome, organic ingredients for product performance—and vice versa!

Transparency is important to us (and hopefully to you, too!). We know that green gimmicks and vague ingredient lists don’t fool health-conscious consumers; when it comes to organic shampoo, we know the proof is in the pudding. You can always find each product’s ingredients listed on our website—visit www.usemeproducts.com/ingredients.html for more information.

Organic Shampoo with LavenderAs far as salon-quality products with plant-derived ingredients, all of the botanicals in Use Me cleansers are organic—ingredients like lavender, green tea, aloe vera, rosemary, and chamomile.

Check out some of the organic ingredients in Use Me’s cleansers. What is the best organic shampoo? The one that actually works for your hair type.

Both the gentle volumizing formula for fine hair and the ultra-moisturizing formula for dry or coarse hair contain:

  • Organic Sunflower Seed Extract to protect against free radicals;
  • Organic Green Tea Leaf Extract, an antioxidant that also protects from free radicals;
  • Organic Lavender Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract to calm and soothe the hair;
  • Organic Aloe Vera Leaf Juice, which helps seal the hair cuticle;
  • Organic Matricaria Flower Extract to add shine and luster to hair; and
  • Organic Rosemary Leaf Extract, which helps condition, tone and strengthen hair.

Ultimately, settling on which organic shampoo is the best will be determined by your hair type and your needs. You could certainly visit a healthy living store for an organic shampoo, but sometimes they don’t work at a professional level. Use Me cleansers are the pinnacle of product functionality and organic ingredients. Oh, and did we mention they’re sulfate-free and paraben-free? But more on that later!

Is there an eco-friendly hair care related topic  you would like to see covered on our blog after What is the Best Organic Shampoo? Great! Just let us know by contacting us at info@usemeproducts.com.

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The Love Your Mother Campaign

1% for the Planet has launched their Love Your Mother campaign, asking consumers to share pictures of the 1% network gifts they are giving or receiving this holiday season. Every network-related image on Twitter and Instagram that includes the #LoveYourMother hashtag will be entered into a drawing to win some 1% for the Planet member swag!

Use Me! Eco-Friendly Hair Care | 1% for the Planet Member

To say thank you to all of the Use Me! Refill. Reuse. Repeat. fans, each Love Your Mother photo featuring any Use Me! products will be entered into our own drawing. Don’t forget to follow us and tag @UseMeProducts in your photos on both Twitter and Instagram!
And there’s still time to give Use Me! Refill. Reuse. Repeat. to someone special this holiday season! Visit our website to purchase cleansers, moisturizers, and stylers (like the ones at left!).
Love Your Mother | 1% for the Planet Campaign | #LoveYourMother

A Maine Holiday Gift Guide

Check out our holiday picks, featuring local products from like-minded Maine-based companies! Please share this with your friends, whether they’re in New England or elsewhere. Scroll down for links to each company. Happy Holidays!

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Holiday Gift Guide: Maine Companies

Alanna York, Founder & President | Wicked Whoopies
Erica Gray, Co-Owner | Swans Island
Thomasina DiBiase, Vice President | Planet Dog
Kate Emmerich, Director of Education | Urban Farm Fermentory
Kristin Angeli, East Coast Account Director | happygreenbee
Nathaniel Wellin, West Coast Account Director | Maine Mead Works
Jeni Bishop, Administrative Assistant | Sea Bags

Sexy Hair… Without the Crust

Leah Bonnema is a brilliant NYC-based stand-up comic who has recorded a few videos for Use Me. Stay tuned each week for short, hilarious clips featuring her original jokes, her real-life experiences, and her love for Use Me! Refill. Reuse. Repeat.

Visit www.UseMeProducts.com for more information. Don’t forget to follow @UseMeProducts and @LeahBonnema on Twitter!

P.S. This video is rated PG-13. You’ve been warned!

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Keeping Guinea Pigs Safe & Happy

Leah Bonnema is a brilliant NYC-based stand-up comic who has recorded a few videos for Use Me. Stay tuned each week for short, hilarious clips featuring her original jokes, her real-life experiences, and her love for Use Me! Products.

*Sea Salt Matte Paste contains sustainably sourced beeswax, therefore is vegetarian. Curl Up & Shine Creme contains lanolin from a no-kill sheep farm in New Zealand.

Visit www.UseMeProducts.com for more information. Don’t forget to follow @UseMeProducts@LeahBonnema, and @R2D2andTupac on Twitter!

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Make the World and Your Hair Cleaner

Leah Bonnema is a brilliant NYC-based stand-up comic who has recorded a few videos for Use Me. Stay tuned each week for short, hilarious clips featuring her original jokes, her real-life experiences, and her love for Use Me! Products.

“…use Use Me! Products, and make the world a better place!” –Stand Up Comic Leah Bonnema

For more information, go to www.UseMeProducts.com. And don’t forget to follow @UseMeProducts and @LeahBonnema on Twitter!

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Potty Mouth, Clean Hair

Leah Bonnema is a brilliant NYC-based stand-up comic who has recorded a few videos for Use Me. Stay tuned each week for short, hilarious clips featuring her original jokes, her real-life experiences, and her love for Use Me! Products.

“I like dirty jokes. I don’t like dirty hair.” –Stand Up Comic Leah Bonnema

Filmed at Greenwich Comedy Club in New York City. For more information, go to www.UseMeProducts.com and follow @UseMeProducts and @LeahBonnema!

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Leah Bonnema for Use Me!

Recently, Alanna York (Use Me’s founder and president) and Leah Bonnema (NYC-based stand-up comic), put their curly heads together and came up with something amazing! Leah has generously recorded a few videos featuring her original jokes, her real-life experiences, and her love for Use Me! Products.

We’ll be releasing these exclusive videos one-by-one, and here’s the very first! Leah talks about her hair gel abuse… and how Use Me’s Curl Up & Shine Creme turned her helmet hair habit into smooth, bouncy coils.

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The Boom Boom Room 2012: Event Photos

September 21 & 22 marked our debut at the Boom Boom Room, a celebrity gifting suite on Emmy Eve! We are so glad to have met all of the attendees—celebrity moms, dads, parents-to-be, and even a few kids at the Boom Boom Room! Everyone was incredibly nice and we were able to spread the word about our eco-friendly, refillable, sulfate- and paraben-free products.

Check out photos from the two-day event below, and a bonus video of Constance Marie!

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All images via Twitter (@UseMeProducts and @jayneonimoore).

The Boom Boom Room 2012: Celebrity Tweets

We were absolutely thrilled to be invited to this year’s Boom Boom Room, a pre-Emmy Awards gifting suite for celebrity parents. Our eco-friendly products were very well-received, and everyone we met was so gracious and truly interested in our refill, reuse, repeat philosophy. A big thanks to everyone who stopped by The Boom Boom Room — it was great to meet you! And check out some of the celebrity tweets from our weekend!

All images are screenshots from our Twitter feed. Source: @UseMeProducts.