If you find yourself having dry and coarse hair, then try Milbon Plarmia Hairserum Shampoo. This product developed by the #1 professional hair care in Japan can restore ad rejuvenates your hair structure. Super common little helper ingredient that helps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes.

It’s pretty much the current IT- preservative. It’s safe and gentle, but even more importantly, it’s not a feared-by-everyone-mostly-without-scientific-reason paraben. Here are the best Japanese shampoos based on my personal experience as a Japanese girl, the real voice from my Japanese friends and my research from major Japanese fashion and beauty magazines. It looks like a whisky bottle, but it’s shampoo – just a luxury looking shampoo! It contains organic oils that smooth your hair. Non-silicone and sulfate-free. If you colour or perm your hair a lot, this shampoo is perfect for you. It repairs from deep inside and transforms your hair into healthy and shiny looking hair. The purple Reveur shampoo is designed to hydrate and smoothen dry, brittle or parched hair and leave it with a glass like shimmer. The product contains hydrolysed pea protein which helps to repair damaged hair cuticles and leaves hair silky and glossy.Number one reason for its popularity has to do with bubbles. Everyone loves bubbles. And cocamidopropyl betaine is great at stabilizing them. Botanist shampoo contains carefully selected plant-derived moisturising ingredients to leave the hair shiny and hydrated. The philosophy of the BOTANIST brand is that plants are a blessing and we should surround ourselves with them. Their flagship store in Tokyo is filled with plants! And yes, before you ask it is also safe to use even for color-treated hair as there are no sulfates here.

Shiseido Tsubaki Premium Repair shampoo is great for all hair types like dry, damaged, sensitive hair, etc. It repairs moisture, strengthens hair, and provides salon-quality fullness to your hair. Washing hair with rice water comes from an old Japanese tradition called called yu-su-ru. Japanese women would wash their hair with rice water to strengthen it, and help it grow at a faster rate. Other than having a good safety profile and being quite gentle to the skin it has some other advantages too. It can be used in many types of formulations as it has great thermal stability (can be heated up to 85°C) and works on a wide range of pH levels (ph 3-10). It has a great scent and will leave your hair smelling like a dream. You can observe a nice floral and fruity fragrance of the shampoo.And as argan oil is very lightweight, it won’t weigh down your fine, oil-prone hair like Camellia oil might have done. The pump dispenser makes application very simple as you don’t have to lift the bottle, open the lid and then squeeze to dispense the shampoo. Simply press the pump and one-two pumps are enough for the application. Shiseido Tsubaki Premium Repair Shampoo is formulated with camellia seed oil which is an emollient and helps in smoothing the hair. The ingredient is great for hydrating the hair and bringing shine.

The bottle of Shiseido Tsubaki Premium Repair shampoo is built with tough material that doesn’t break easily. I’ve dropped it a number of times by mistake but it never broke or leaked. You can even close down the pump to carry it along while traveling. I make sure I wash my hair thoroughly before shampooing, so I only need a bit of shampoo. This way, I can avoid exposing my scalp (skin) to some washing ingredients of shampoo which can be straining on the skin.The nourishing oil is a beauty secret of Japanese women and was used by the ancient Geishas for centuries. The high levels of essential fatty acids in the oil nourishes the skin and helps to moisturise it. The other reason is that it’s mild and works very well combined with other cleansing agents and surfactants. The art of cleansing is usually to balance between properly cleansing but not over-cleansing and cocamidopropyl betaine is helpful in pulling off this balance right.

Shiseido is well known for their skincare, hair care, makeup, body care as well as fragrances. The company introduced Rainbow Face Powder in 1917 as a revolutionary act against white face powders in Japan. This act tried to normalise color racism and gained great popularity. Super common little helper ingredient thathelps products to remain nice and stable for a longer time. It does so by neutralizing the metal ions in the formula (that usually get into there from water) that would otherwise cause some not so nice changes. The consistency of the shampoo is quite runny. This might not be everyone’s problem but a lot of users can despise watery shampoos as they might be effective on coarse hair types.

Tsubaki oil is cold pressed from the seeds of the Camellia plant. It is very popular in Japanese hair products as it is so effective in nourishing and moisturising the hair. Shiseido Tsubaki is a hair care collection with a simplistic and mature design that falls under a slightly expensive range. I really liked the Tsubaki shampoo but wanted something more cleansing and less heavy. So I decided to try out this shampoo from Nature Lab Tokyo as it claims to help revitalize your scalp and prevent hair loss. The Type S shampoo is enriched with the derivatives of phospholipids to repair and moisturise damaged hair.