What’s the deal with Horse Shampoo?
I laughed out loud the first time my friend Kelsey told me she was using horse shampoo to make her hair grow faster. Shampoo designed for horses?! Whaaaat? A few months later, wonder upon wonders, her hair was significantly longer.
Being a product junkie myself, I needed to do some product research.
The brand of horse shampoo everyone’s been talking about is called “Mane’nTail.” When I first went to manentail.com/home2.asp, I was initially a bit thrown off. The website asked me to select whether I was using the products for “personal” or for “animal care.” I scanned over the picture of a well-groomed horse and selected the picture of a bored looking girl with very long hair and the words “personal care” plastered across her picture. I chuckled to myself that the website even had to ask.
According to the Q&A part of Mane’n Tail’s website, its products were originally developed for horses. Horse owners reported seeing “significant improvement in the health and appearance of their horses’ manes and tails.” The improvement in their animals’ hair prompted horse owners to try the shampoo out on themselves (which wouldn’t have been my first inclination, but hell, why not!?) Animal owners supposedly had the same results.
Still, I was skeptical.
After looking at the Mane’n Tail website, I did a bit more research into the success of the product from outsiders’ perspective.
Can horse shampoo really make my hair grow any faster than it already does?
The answer is “no.” Nothing you put on your head can increase growth (at least nothing that has been discovered thus far). However, Mane N’ Tail does give us Long Hair Hopefuls a few good reasons to buy it.
First of all, those of us trying to grow out our hair need a shampoo that moisturizes and helps to prevent breakage. Mane N’ Tail does just that. It also comes without the sticky and unhealthy residue that many other shampoos leave behind. All Mane’n Tail leaves behind is clean, healthy hair. And best of all, it’s CHEAP (A few bucks per bottle at most grocery and drug stores!).
So, I obviously had to purchase a bottle of Mane’n Tail to try on myself. Just so that I could write a fair and accurate review, I used up the entire bottle before commenting. As promised, the shampoo cleaned my hair without leaving it dry and brittle. It didn’t smell bad, and it didn’t turn my hair blue (as I’d heard a rumor it would). However, it didn’t do anything amazing to my hair, either. My hair grew at its normal rate, and for now, I’m going back to my old standby, SunSilk Captivating Curls shampoo (until I find something else intriguing, of course!)
More later!
Sarah
