Grandpa's Wonder Pine Tar Soap

boticellicurls · 02-21-2010, 02:06 PM

I've been off shampoo now for over a year. I love using the cleansing-with-conditioner techniques found in the book Curly Girl. The only adverse result is that I miss anti-dandruff shampoos, as I suffer from a fair amount of itching and flaking.

I know a lot of ingredients in drug-store brands can harm hair (head and shoulders, selsun, etc). So I set out to find something different and came across Grandpa's Wonder Pine Tar Soap.

I've only used it a couple times but so far I love it. It leaves my scalp feeling cool and I've noticed less flaking. The ingredients list seems really promising: Coconut oil, palm oil, purified water, pine tar oil, vegetable glycerin. That's it.

While I'm loving this stuff, I recently read online somewhere that pine tar can be hard on your hair. I've not been able to find anymore details about that claim.

Anyone else have experience with pine tar as an ingredient in hair products? Is it true that pine tar can damage hair?

Thanks for any and all feedback!

Reeky · 04-18-2010, 07:55 PM

omg i forgot all about this! So when i was younger my grandmother bought some of this for me and swore it was what made her hair so long & healthy! I do remember that it was drying, which could be the pine tar. But i think if you just washed your scalp with it a cpl times a week it would be harmless. Just do not lather your whole head, im going to try to find some! Omg memories