Helps Defer Lice: Nature's Gate Organics Tea Tree Calming Shampoo Review

When I worked at a daycare it was always a concern of mine that I would get lice, thankfully though I never did. One thing that I believe may have helped me was using tea tree shampoo. I was told that it defers lice and since so many of the children I watched and even other teachers that I worked with had lice, I never had a problem so I believe that the shampoo helps. This is something that I shared with my mom, and so I was not surprised when she bought me Nature's Gate Organics Tea Tree Calming Shampoo. I was familiar with this brand because I had previously tried Nature's Gate Organics Lavender and Aloe Shampoo and was quite pleased with their product. I was looking forward to trying their tea tree shampoo.

The first thing that I looked at with the Nature's Gate Organics Tea Tree Calming Shampoo was its ingredients. The shampoo consisted of water, sodium laureth sulfate, cocamide DEA, linoleamide DEA, melaleuca alternifolia oil, which is tea tree oil, hydrastis canadensis extract or golden seal extract, melissa officinalis extract or balm mint extract, quillaja saponaria bark extract or soap bark extract, chamomilla recutita flower extract or matricaria extract, urtica dioica extract or nettle extract, rosmarinus officinalis leaf extract or rosemary extract, humulus lupulus extract or hops extract, nasturtium officinale extract or watercress extract, panthenol, butylene glycol, PEG-5M, cocamidopropyl betaine, citric acid, sodium chloride, glyceryl undecylenate, phenoxyethanol, and fragrance. The ingredients were vegan and paraben, colorant, and alcohol free. Also, the tea tree shampoo did not test on animals and it was made in the USA. I was quite pleased with the ingredients and the fact that the company made their products in the United States and that they did not do animal testing with their product.

The Nature's Gate Organics Tea Tree Calming Shampoo had a standard smell for being a tea tree oil shampoo. It was typical in the amount of shampoo that is required to be effective, which is nice because I often find that the more natural shampoos require more than traditional. The directions said to massage a generous amount of shampoo gently into your wet hair and scalp, but what generous amount I did use seemed perfectly reasonable. At the time my hair was not quite at shoulders length and I would say I was able to wash it with just one squeeze of the bottle. The tea tree shampoo lasted a long time; there were 18 fluid ounces in the shampoo bottle. This shampoo claimed to help balance irritated and flaky scalp. It also claimed to reduce oily build-up, sooth the scalp while alleviating flaking and I thought that it lived up to its description pretty well. I believe that it did just that for my hair.

I used the bottle up until the last drop and I was very happy the whole way through. My only complaint, which really cannot be helped, is the smell that tea tree shampoos have. If you do not care for tea tree oil aroma then the Nature's Gate Organics Tea Tree Calming Shampoo may not be for you. However, if you do not mind the aroma that the shampoo has then I would highly recommend it. Since it was a gift I am not sure what it cost my mom, but I have seen it sold for around six or seven dollars. This is a pretty fair price for a natural shampoo and I would buy it in the future. I was quite pleased with it and the shampoo lasted a really long time, so it does not seem like a bad deal to me.