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Packer's Pine Tar Shampoo | USA Made With All Natural Active Ingredients | Shampoo for Dry and Itchy Scalp With Soothing Benefits & Invigorating Refreshment | Paraben and Sulfate Free | USA Made
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Brand | Packer's Pine |
Item Form | Liquid |
Hair Type | All |
Scent | Pine Scent |
Age Range (Description) | Adult |
About this item
- MADE IN USA FOR OVER 150 YEARS | Since 1869, Packers Pine Tar Soap and shampoo products have been helping millions of customers dealing with skin and scalp issues. Your senses will come alive after lathering in our refreshing pine soap body wash, made with premium-grade pine tar and pine oil that'll leave you feeling fresh and clean all day long.
- EFFECTIVE FOR EVERYDAY USE: The soothing properties of natural pine tar and pine oil are known to help with common skin ailments like dryness and itchiness. This shampoo deeply hydrates, nourishes and cleanses your scalp, rejuvenating the health of your hair and scalp. With its concentrated formula, it effectively clears dry and itchy skin faster and prevents it from reoccurring.
- DRY SCALP SHAMPOO | Packers Pine Tar Shampoo is also an effective dry scalp relief shampoo as it helps maintain a healthy scalp and bouncy hair. After trying it, you'll see a noticeable difference in results compared to products from other hair products.
- MADE WITH ALL NATURAL ACTIVE INGREDIENTS AND SAFE AND PARABEN AND SULFATE FREE | Fight scalp and skin issues naturally and safely. This shampoo is 100% safe for color treated hair and can safely be used by children and pregnant women, and it's suitable for both men and women. Its pine oil gives off a natural pine aroma as it moisturizes your scalp and cleanses your hair of impurities. It is gentle enough for daily use as needed.
- SATISFACTION AND QUALITY GUARANTEED | Since 1869, we at Packer's Pine are passionate about developing plant-based products with natural ingredients that invigorate, relieve, and protect. We continue to offer our loyal customers the same proven products they've loved for years.
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In 1869, in the quaint fishing village of Mystic, Connecticut, Daniel F. Packer, an adventurer and entrepreneur, originated and sold “Packer’s All Healing Tar Soap”.
This famous soap now called “Packer’s Pine Tar Soap”, has been marketed continuously for over 150 years.
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Packer's Pine Tar SoapThis famous soap contains premium-grade natural pine tar and pine oil. Since 1869 it has been recommended by many doctors as a complexion soap and helpful in many minor skin troubles including dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis. Great for everyday use and all skin types. |
Packer's Pine Tar ShampooOur Pine Tar Shampoo with premium-grade pine tar and pine oil also provides natural help for scalp conditions including dandruff, dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis. Contains all natural active ingredients. Great for everyday use and all hair types. |
Packer's Pine Tar Body WashOur Pine Tar Body Wash with premium-grade pine tar and pine oil is moisturizing, soothing, and cleansing with a crisp piney scent. It’s also great for relieving dry skin and related conditions including dermatitis, eczema, and psoriasis. Contains natural active ingredients. Great for everyday use and all skin types. |

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Packer's Pine Soap Dish | Packer's Pine Tar Soap | Packer's Pine Tar Shampoo | Packer's Pine Tar Body Wash | |
Weight | 6.1 oz | 3.2 oz | 8 oz | 1.5 lb |
Made in the USA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sulfate Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Paraben Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Creosote Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 2.74 x 2.74 x 7 inches; 8 Ounces
- Item model number : PPAX1212555
- UPC : 885925213595 180309000441
- Manufacturer : Packer's Pine
- ASIN : B000GCXSPG
- Best Sellers Rank: #18,979 in Beauty & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Beauty & Personal Care)
- #576 in Hair Shampoo
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Hair Type | All | All | All Hair Types | All | — | All |
Scent | Pine Scent | Pine Tar | Pine | Fragrance | Citrus | Coal Tar |
Size | 8 Fl Oz (Pack of 1) | 8 Fl Oz (Pack of 1) | 3 Pack | 8 Ounce (Pack of 1) | — | 6 Ounce (Pack of 1) |
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Ingredients
Water, Disodium Cocoamphodipropionate, Sodium Lauroyl Methyl Isethionate, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Cocamide DIPA, Pinus Palustris Oil, Pinus Palustris, Wood Tar, Polyquaternium-10, Citric Acid, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone
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Do you want to deny yourself?
Is it worth finding yourself in bed, 93, looking back on your life and thinking, "if I could only have sniffed just once."
I have thick, mangley, curly brown hair. It wasn't curly all my life and most of the time I just look like a cave lady because I don't know what to do with it. Every hairdresser straightens it, even though I tell them I'm not going to do that.
I put in a little bit of coconut/Shea butter creme after using this shampoo and before I went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, my curls were soft, my eczema was already minimal (shocking!) and I didn't have to sign my hair down before going outside.
So, I'm not kidding when I tell you that this stuff works. If you have course/dry hair, eczema on your scalp, or just like campfire smells... Get it. You will not regret it. As far as the insect deterrent, I can't really say if it helps because I use a conditioner over it, but if you're a dude I'd try it.
The most common dandruff shampoos (Head & Shoulders being the prominent market leader) are built around pyrithione zinc (sometimes listed as zinc pyrithione) as the active ingredient. Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database, classifying it as a class 5 “moderate hazard,” is hardly enthusiastic about pyrithione zinc, and several developed nations have limited its use in consumer products. Aside from its safety, however, it simply never has worked on my particular form of dandruff. Its effectiveness has been zero or so near to zero as to appear to be zero.
Another group of dandruff shampoos -- Neutrogena T-Sal is an example -- is built around salicylic acid as the active ingredient. Although salicylic acid is a close relative of aspirin, Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database rates it as a class 7 “high hazard” ingredient. Hazard or not, salicylic acid shampoos have never been effective on my scalp to reduce my dandruff.
In most states -- sale is restricted or forbidden in some states -- some shampoos are available in which the active ingredient is COAL tar. Coal tar is a known carcinogen. Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database ranks coal tar as a class 10 (TEN!) “high hazard.” Unaware of the dangers at the time, I tried coal tar-based dandruff shampoos in the past, and they seemed to be moderately effective on my dandruff. Better informed now of its carcinogenic properties, I would be uncomfortable with my family using any coal tar shampoo regularly over the long term.
Another “tar” product used in dandruff shampoos is PINE tar oil (pinus paulustris). Of all the dandruff control products that I ever have tried, the ones that worked the best all were “pine tar” shampoos. I have tried a few brands, among which “Tannenbaum” Pine Tar Shampoo (which Amazon sells as “Heritage Store Hair” shampoo) Heritage Store Hair Shampoo, Pine Tar, 12 Ounce has worked remarkably well for me over the years; effective in solving the dandruff problem. (In 2010, I posted a review on this site of that “Tannenbaum” Pine Tar Shampoo here on Amazon, but — at some point, I do not know when — Amazon deleted all reviews of the product that had been posted before 2013, so you no longer can read that review.) And Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database rates pinus paulustris as a class 1 “low hazard,” a level of risk close to the risk from using distilled water.
So: why did I purchase a bottle of Packer’s Pine Tar Shampoo — the subject of this review — to try out? Why not stick with “Tannenbaum”? While the active ingredient of pine tar shampoos is — indeed — pine tar, most of them, including “Tannenbaum,” contain SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) or SLES (sodium laureth sulfate), or both, as the main cleaning ingredient(s). SLS is a very, very common cleanser; you can find it in many household detergents, and its lack of toxicity is fairly well confirmed (EWG ranks it as a class 3 “moderate hazard”). Read the ingredient list of best-selling major shampoos, and you will find either SLS or SLES, or both, on most of the labels. In the case of “Tannenbaum” Pine Tar Shampoo, the concentration of SLS and SLES appear to be fairly high. “Tannenbaum” cleans really well, and quite aggressively. My hair and scalp feel squeaky clean after shampooing with “Tannenbaum.”
But in my use, “Tannenbaum” seemed to be TOO aggressive a cleanser for frequent use. If I use “Tannenbaum” more than once within a period of a week or ten days, my hair gets pretty dry and brittle. Even a good conditioner seems overmatched to the task of rehydrating my hair then.
Enter Packer’s Pine Tar Shampoo. Claiming to be the “original” pine tar shampoo, Packer’s cleansing agents do not include SLS or SLES. It promises the benefit of pine tar dandruff reduction without the overly aggressive cleaning and (at least for me) drying effects of SLS and SLES.
Strictly as a shampoo, Packer’s is very satisfactory. It cleans my hair and scalp at least as well as any of the best selling products from Procter & Gamble or Alberto Culver or Schwarzkopf. As a dandruff shampoo, however, it is only moderately more effective -- though probably safer and more environmentally friendly -- than dandruff shampoos based on pyrithione zinc or salicylic acid; it is not as effective on my dandruff as the SLS/SLES-based “Tannenbaum” pine tar shampoo. Overall, that's not a bad score. I can recommend Packer’s without crossing my fingers behind my back.
Personally, however, we will go back to our long-established regimen of using a non-dandruff shampoo for daily or every other day shampooing. For that purpose, we use (depending on our mood and pocketbook):
• the economical▻ Shikai - Natural Everyday Shampoo, 12 fl oz liquid
(▻we pump it into our own bottle from a gallon bottle at a brick-and-mortar store) or
• the somewhat more expensive Andalou Naturals Moisture Rich Shampoo, Argan and Sweet Orange, 11.5 Ounce
(which will leave your hair smelling like an orange LifeSaver candy, which you may love or may hate) or
• the very pricey but excellent Enjoy Sulfate-Free Hydrating Shampoo, 10.1-Ounce
— all three of which are superior from a body, manageability, and softness standpoint to Packer's.
We supplement that regular cleansing every ten days or so by shampooing with a pine tar shampoo, either “Tannenbaum” or Packer’s. Two shampoo bottles take up more space in the shower than one does, but that is the only means that we have found to get the best of both worlds.
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