Christophe Robin Cleansing Purifying Scrub With Sea Salt

I’ve been known to almost pass out at the hair salon after a good shampoo and scrub, so I decided it was time to bring some of this scalp TLC home in the form of the Christophe Robin Cleansing Purifying Scrub With Sea Salt.

What Is The Christophe Robin Cleansing Purifying Scrub?

The Christophe Robin Purifying Scrub is a scalp exfoliator and shampoo that cleanses, removes buildup and soothes sensitive, flaky and oily scalps.

Sea Salt helps to purify by removing residue and build up, while sweet almond oil provides long-lasting hydration and soothing benefits for the scalp.

The brand claims that this scalp exfoliator/shampoo removes styling products, dry shampoo buildup and chemical residues from colour treatments while working to re-balance itchy/oily scalps and promoting healthy blood circulation.

It’s made for all hair types and textures and is colour safe as well.

It has a 4.4/5 rating on Sephora Canada and some of the reviewers indicated that this scrub helped improve their hair growth – nice!

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**What’s Not In The Scrub?**

This scrub is free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances.

This product is also vegan, cruelty-free and comes in recyclable packaging.

Textures & Scents

The Christophe Robin Purifying Scrub has a strong, soapy cologne-like scent. The sea salt particles themselves are quite chunky and you can get a good look at them in the pic below:

How To Use The Christophe Robin Cleansing Purifying Scrub

This scrub is meant to be applied to the scalp onto wet hair and then massaged in, lathered and rinsed away thoroughly.

It includes sodium laurel sulfate in the ingredients, which I usually try to avoid in my shampoos and cleansers whenever I can, since SLS can be drying to hair and skin.

Did My Scalp Enjoy The Scrub?

Well yes and no.

A small nickel size amount spread into my wet hair made a glorious amount of foam on my head – something I quite miss with the sulfate-free shampoos I normally use.

However, my roots felt super dry after I rinsed away the scrub and I also noticed that the scrub seemed to strip some of my hair colour at the roots, despite being touted as colour safe by the brand.

In future, I made sure to only use this scrub when I was close to re-dying my hair to avoid fading and remove build-up.

This scrub also left my hair feeling a bit parched afterwards, so applying some conditioner as a last step was a must to bring back some life into my hair.

But the worst part?? There was no scrubbing action – none! I was waiting for that pleasurable scrubbing sensation when I started to massage the scrub onto my scalp, but once the scrub mixed with the water, the sea salt bits totally dissolved and disappeared…goodbye at-home scalp massage.

Would I repurchase? At the moment, no, I don’t think I would repurchase and I’m glad I only invested in the small tub. I feel like this scalp scrub is more of a detoxifying shampoo, which I can easily purchase at a lower price point to get the same results.

What would I recommend instead? I recently ordered a nice pink rubber spiky scalp massaging tool (you can see it the feature pic) that I can use with any shampoo and the massaging sensation feels amazing!

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