10 Best Shampoo for Curly Hair 2022

Specializing in offering haircare products for curly hair, Bouclème is the winner of multiple awards, such as Marie Claire Beauty Awards 2019, Pure Beauty Awards London 2020 and Cosmopolitan Beauty Awards 2020. The bestseller Hydrating Hair Cleanser is a sulphate-free, low-foaming cleanser with white cream texture, perfect for fine hair, curly hair and these with oily scalps. Its formula contains coconut, Mongongo, sea buckthorn, camellia and sea salt. Enriched with fatty acids, coconut can moisturize the scalp and hair, and improve frizz as well as dryness. Plus, it also features antibacterial properties, which can prevent hair follicle infection, reduce dandruff and lice, providing a good environment for hair growth. Sea salt and Mongongo can balance oil production in the scalp without stripping the natural oils that hair needs, making your hair softer and smoother. Sea buckthorn can strengthen hair follicles, reduce hair loss and dandruff, while repairing damaged hair. The hydrating Camellia can lock in hair moisture, provide proteins and a variety of nutrients, and protect the hair from harmful UV rays and environmental pollution. Hydrating Hair Cleanser is available in three sizes. If you are purchasing a 1L for the first time, be sure to add a 1L pump to your cart. A user said, “I use this product every other wash combined with the curl cleanser so probably once a week. It gives my hair a good clean and removes product residue without stripping it.”

The mild, sulfate-free Curls Creamy Curl Cleanser can create dense lather, suitable for curly hair. Containing panthenol (Vitamin B5), this cleanser can deeply nourish the hair. With sufficient moisture, it conditions your hair to promote hair growth and build elasticity and roughness. Plus, it helps cope with damaged, dry and frizzy hair so as to texture your curly hair. Infused with carrot seed oil, Curls Creamy Curl Cleanser can stimulate the growth of new cells, deeply moisturize your hair and scalp, making the hair look healthier and shinier. Its formula also has sage leaf extract, featuring antibacterial and anti-oxidant properties, that can improve hair health, help treat scalp inflammation and balance out your scalp's oil. Additionally, it helps offer the natural oils that your hair needs, cleanse the scalp and reduce dandruff and split ends, leaving you with fluffier, cleaner hair. Formulated with easily-absorbed Silk Amino Acids, Curls Creamy Curl Cleanser helps detangle hair, and make it smoother as well as more manageable. Please noted, this cleanser contains fragrances. If you mind, reconsider before purchasing. Curls Creamy Curl Cleanser is able to achieve astonishing effect. A user left the review, “I’ve used several different products from the Blueberry line and love each and every one of them. My hair is wavy with loose curls. These products bring out the curls and look really pretty!!! The products smell wonderful and work very well! I’m so happy I found this product line and will continue to use them!”

The white, creamy Briogeo Avocado & Quinoa Co-Wash is free of irritating gluten, silicon, paraben and sulfate, etc.. Its 96% naturally-derived formula is very gentle, suitable for straight, curly and dyed hair. This shampoo contains soothing aloe vera to get rid of dandruff, alleviate itchiness and prevent hair loss and gray hair. Plus, aloe vera can also protect hair from harmful UV rays, promote blood circulation and hair growth, effectively cleanse hair follicles, remove excess oils and resins from styling products. Avocado & Quinoa Co-Wash is also infused with shea butter and avocado oil with moisturizing and nourishing properties to help rejuvenate hair follicles, reduce breakages and split ends, and improve hair shine and elasticity, providing a better environment for the hair to grow healthily. Additionally, the quinoa extract formulated in this shampoo can form a barrier to protect your hair from environmental pollution. Some users left the comment after purchasing, “I've been natural for almost a month now, and although this is the first co-wash I've ever tried it hasn't let me down! It gives my curls amazing slip and gets rid of knots and tangles easily. It also works well with my low porosity hair and on the plus side smells super nice.”

Design Essentials is a personal care brand. The bestseller Almond & Avocado Moisturizing & Detangling Sulfate-Free Shampoo is recommended by many review sites and bloggers. This shampoo is available in three sizes, including travel size, very convenient for on-the-go. The main ingredients of Almond & Avocado Moisturizing & Detangling Sulfate-Free Shampoo are almonds and avocados. Almonds rich in vitamins and a variety of nutrients can offer basic minerals for the hair and scalp as well as promote healthy hair growth, gently smoothing the hair stratum corneum. Apart from that, it also nourishes the scalp, boosts blood circulation, alleviates dandruff and reduces hair loss, leaving your hair tough, healthy and glowing. Avocado rich in vitamins B and E can help protect and strengthen hair, improve dryness and frizz caused by external factors, prevent tangled hair and breakages, while repairing split ends. Additionally, avocado can also provide sufficient moisture to nourish the hair, making hair look smoother and shinier. The ultra-gentle, paraben-, petrolatum-, mineral-oil- and sulfate-free shampoo can cleanse your hair without stripping the natural oil from the hair, and damaging natural protective barrier. However, Almond & Avocado Moisturizing & Detangling Sulfate-Free Shampoo is infused with fragrance. If you mind, please reconsider this before purchasing. 

The professional haircare brand Malibu C develops products, focusing on repairing hair damage and breakages caused by the lack of hydration, environment, and irritating chemicals like chlorine. This 100% vegan mild Malibu C Un-Do-Goo > pH 9 Shampoo with transparent oily texture can create dense lather. This shampoo helps cleanse scalp and remove resin from styling products to avoid hair problems like tinea capitis and dandruff caused by clogged pores. Its sulfate-, paraben- and sodium chloride-free formula contains plant extracts and vitamins to form a protective barrier on the scalp, helping retain moisture and nutrients for scalp, eliminate frizz and restore shine, softness and manageability. This shampoo can also effectively nourish hair follicles, prevent dryness and blockage of sebaceous glands and rebuild hair proteins that depleted from resin buildup. Besides, it helps promote hair growth, increase elasticity and roughness, and prevent breakages as well as split ends. Containing fragrances, Un-Do-Goo > pH 9 Shampoo smells like orange zest and vanilla bean. Some people don’t like it. If you are one of them, please reconsider before purchasing. This shampoo features excellent effects, like a user commenting on official website, “This is a very good clarifier. It doesn’t leave my scalp and hair stripped and dry. It’s got good suds and a good clean feeling after rinsing. I also love the fruity smell.”   

Briogeo Curl Charisma Rice Amino + Avocado Hydrating Shampoo is a moisturizing, sulfate-free, creamy shampoo, which won’t strip the hair of much-needed natural oils, suitable for curly hair texture types – 2A and 4C. This shampoo is infused with rice amino acids, avocado oil and tomato fruit ferment extract. Rice amino acids penetrates the hair shaft to effectively lock in frizz-causing moisture, making you hair smoother and suppler; tomato fruit ferment extract seals the cuticle to lock in nutrients, form a protective barrier, block away hydration, get rid of dandruff and lice, and keep the hair refreshed, allowing for uniform curl formation. Shea butter and avocado oil can soften the hair, improve frizz and dryness, and enhance the body of curls. Additionally, Hydrating Shampoo also contains sodium hyaluronate and aloe vera that can lubricate and care hair, and eliminate static electricity, leaving your hair smoother, more convenient for daily haircare. The soothing aloe vera can relieve seborrheic dermatitis, reduce dandruff and itchiness, protect hair from harmful UV rays, and alleviate hair loss. Besides, aloe vera can also effectively cleanse hair follicles, remove excess oils and residues of other styling products and reduce the burden on the scalp and hair. Its ultra-gentle formula doesn’t contain parabens, sulfates, silicones and artificial dyes.

Specifically formulated for curly hair, this non-lathering, sulfate-free DevaCurl No-Poo Original Zero Lather Conditioning Cleanser has a creamy white texture. The key ingredients of No-Poo Original are grape seed oil and peppermint oil. Containing a variety of nutrients that hair needs, grape seed oil can moisturize the scalp and hair without a heavy feeling, promote hair growth and relieve hair loss. Grape seed oil features anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antibacterial properties and can repair scalp damage, reduce dandruff and lice, relieve seborrheic dermatitis, making your curly hair healthier and shinier. Besides, it is also a great moisturizer that can improve tangled hair, frizz, dryness and split ends, leaving you with smoother hair. The other key ingredient -peppermint oil- can balance scalp’s pH level to enhance normal oil secretion, moisturize your scalp and hair, relieve dryness and itchiness, reduce dandruff. Apart from that, peppermint oil can also promote hair growth and alleviate hair loss by stimulating hair follicles. It is worth mentioning that peppermint oil with a clean and invigorating scent can stimulate your senses and keep the hair and scalp refreshed for a long time. But not everyone likes this smell. If you are one of them, then this conditioner is not your first choice.

Together Beauty has a range of bestsellers, warmly welcomed by people. The natural and creamy Wash & Co Cleansing Conditioner is suitable for all hair types, including curly hair and perm-dyed hair. Wash & Co, a perfect combination of shampoo and conditioner, can gently clean hair, while effectively nourishing the hair and scalp. Wash & Co Cleansing Conditioner contains quinoa rich in nutrients like iron and vitamin B complex that can provide sufficient minerals, relieve scalp inflammation, enhance hair elasticity and toughness, thereby preventing hair loss and promoting hair growth. Additionally, it can effectively balance the oil secreted by the scalp and make your hair smoother. This conditioner is also infused with mongoga oil to lock moisture in, relieve dryness and frizz, especially keep your hair curly. Its formula contains coconut oil that helps promote the combination of protein in the hair, reduce breakages, leaving you with more resilient hair. Aside from that, coconut oil can effectively cleanse and nourish the scalp, keep the hair follicles healthy, prevent dryness, kill fungi, and relieve dandruff. The gentle Wash & Co Cleansing Conditioner is free of sulfate, paraben, silicone, gluten, phthalate and synthetic fragrance with zero buildup, very easy to rinse.

The haircare brand Quidad specializes in developing products for curly hair. Quidad identifies four curly hair types based on its structure and introduces a series of iconic products. Quidad is the winner of multiple awards like Best in Black Beauty 2016, Glamour Beauty Awards 2019 and Southern Living Beauty Awards 2020. Advanced Climate Control Defrizzing Shampoo is a creamy white liquid. Its unique sulfate-free formula gently forms a protective barrier on the scalp to lock in moisture and further eliminate frizz, making the curls look more defined. This shampoo also contains the blend of shea butter and ceramide that can protect the hair from heat damage caused by UV rays or hair dryers. These fast-absorbing ingredients help reduce the scalp inflammation, rejuvenate hair follicles, promote healthy hair growth, repair the dead skin cells and smooth its surface without clogging the pores. Defrizzing Shampoo is also infused with silk-derived protein, which is easily absorbed and can replenish nutrients that hair needs, restore toughness, reduce breakages and split ends, keep hair's cuticle sealed to lock nourishing moisture in, while forming a barrier to prevent frizz, leaving your hair healthier and smoother. It is worth mentioning that Defrizzing Shampoo can improve the texture and gloss of curly hair without making it too fluffy or frizzy under any climate.

The yellow, creamy Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance™ Shampoo can create dense lather, suitable for all hair types. Its formula contains sunflower seed oil, rosemary leaf extract, pomegranate seed extract, sodium hyaluronate and almond seed oil. Sunflower seed oil rich in vitamin E and Omega-9 fatty acids can relieve dry scalp and prevent early hair loss and alopecia areata. Besides, it is also a natural moisturizer that can maintain water balance, effectively nourish hair, prevent breakages and promote healthy hair growth. Featuring antioxidant properties, pomegranate seed extract helps to improve the oil production, cleanse the scalp and get rid of dandruff and bacteria, leaving your hair look smoother. Sodium hyaluronate can resolve hair problems like dryness, aging scalp caused by lack of hydration. Rosemary leaf extract can promote blood circulation, deeply clean the scalp, and relieve seborrheic dermatitis. Apart from that, it nourishes hair follicles, improves problems like dryness and slows hair growth. Sodium hyaluronate and almond seed oil can form a protective barrier on the hair to reduce static electricity and split ends, repairing the hair. Additionally, its pH value is 6-6.5, close to normal pH level.