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Shampoo

Cantu Ultra Moisture Nourishing Shampoo

Your regular washing step. Formula as listed on Cantu’s US product page.

Maker’s directions: Massage into wet hair, focusing on the scalp. Full directions ↓

Size: Not listed by the maker. Check your bottle.

Your step: Shampoo

Source: the label and directions Cantu publishes for this product

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How to use it

  1. Massage into wet hair, focusing on the scalp.
  2. Work it into a rich lather, then rinse thoroughly.
  3. The maker suggests following with the Ultra Moisture Nourishing Mask.

Start with one cleanser. A clarifying shampoo can replace it on a reset wash. See where this step fits .

Ingredients and formula details

Makers change formulas now and then. If the list on your bottle differs, go by your bottle.

Fragrance / Parfum
Listed
Curly Girl Method
Fits its ingredient rules: no sulfate, silicone, drying alcohol or wax on this label. Stricter lists also leave out SODIUM C14-16 OLEFIN SULFONATE. What counts · More products that fit
Read the full ingredient list

WATER (AQUA/EAU), SODIUM C14-16 OLEFIN SULFONATE, GLYCERIN, COCAMIDOPROPYL BETAINE, SODIUM CHLORIDE, FRAGRANCE (PARFUM), BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA) BUTTER*, ELAEIS OLEIFERA (BATANA) KERNEL OIL, RICINUS COMMUNIS (JAMAICAN BLACK CASTOR) SEED OIL, PANTHENOL (VITAMIN B5), TOCOPHEROL (VITAMIN E), GLYCOL DISTEARATE, PEG-120 METHYL GLUCOSE DIOLEATE, GUAR HYDROXYPROPYLTRIMONIUM CHLORIDE, PEG-150 DISTEARATE, SODIUM SULFATE, CITRIC ACID, PHENOXYETHANOL, ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN, TRISODIUM ETHYLENEDIAMINE DISUCCINATE, BENZOIC ACID, FUMARIC ACID, SODIUM FERROCYANIDE, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, LINALOOL, TETRAMETHYL ACETYLOCTAHYDRONAPHTHALENES, LIMONENE, COUMARIN, BENZALDEHYDE, PINENE, ROSE KETONES.

These are formula details, not predictions of conditioning, hold or how your hair will respond. Read about ingredient comparisons .

What the maker doesn’t say

The maker doesn’t say how much to use. Measure your usual amount once, and the cost calculator does the rest.

Cantu doesn’t list the size on its product page. Check the amount printed on your bottle.

Every fact here comes from what Cantu publishes for this product; our sources page lists each one. Holding the product? Check its ingredient list.