Shampoo: 1,388 labels checked

1,388 shampoos from 568 brands on Open Beauty Facts, read one ingredient at a time. Below: how many pass each of the six checks, the ones that pass, which ingredients decide it, and the most scanned products.

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Six checks across 1,388 shampoos

Check	Yes	No	Not sure
Vegan shampoos	181 (13%)	196	1011
Fragrance-free shampoos	76 (5%)	1298	14
Paraben-free shampoos	1317 (95%)	35	36
Sulfate-free shampoos	343 (25%)	1018	27
Silicone-free shampoos	1005 (72%)	349	34
Alcohol-free shampoos	1211 (87%)	143	34

Yes means the ingredient list contains none of the ingredients that check looks for. Not sure on the vegan check means an ingredient can come from a plant or an animal and the label does not say which.

What decides it most often

Ingredients that turned a check to No in shampoos, counted across the 400 most scanned lists.

Vegan shampoos

181 of 1,388 shampoos pass the vegan check. The 8 most scanned:

All vegan products

Fragrance-free shampoos

76 of 1,388 shampoos pass the fragrance-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All fragrance-free products

Paraben-free shampoos

1,317 of 1,388 shampoos pass the paraben-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All paraben-free products

Sulfate-free shampoos

343 of 1,388 shampoos pass the sulfate-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All sulfate-free products

Silicone-free shampoos

1,005 of 1,388 shampoos pass the silicone-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All silicone-free products

Alcohol-free shampoos

1,211 of 1,388 shampoos pass the alcohol-free check. The 8 most scanned:

All alcohol-free products

Most scanned shampoos

Showing the 72 most scanned of 1,388. Search all shampoos.

Data: Open Beauty Facts, community database, ODbL license. Categories come from the product name and the community tags, so a few products sit in the wrong group; the check itself reads only the ingredient list. No brand pays for a verdict.