Budgie The Apple Cider Scrub 125 ml Review

Ingredients:

Aqua, Sodium Laureth Sulfate,* Acrylates Copolymer, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Hydrated Silica, Acetum, Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate, PEG-9, Sodium Cocoyl Apple Amino Acids, Parfum, Phenoxyethanol, Citric Acid, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Hydroxide, Limonene, Benzyl Salicylate, Linalool, Hexylene Glycol, Citronellol, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate. 

*Acrylates Copolymer is not a microplastic because it does not have an abrasive, cleaning or polishing effect on the product. The acrylate copolymer has a thickening / gelling effect in the product and is added to the product to keep the silica / pumice (naturally abrasive granules) on top and not to drain to the bottom of the package. The acrylate copolymer is hygroscopic and soluble in water. Microplastics are insoluble in water and do not swell or form gels.

I try to mark the sunscreen ingredients in red and other possible irritants in lilac. Ingredients thought to be good and useful for skin I mark green.  Learning as I go, google is my friend etc...

Thoughts:

- Not as purifying as promised or I thought, not a peeling scrub, and it is still drying for hair ends

- For me, doesn't work alone, I definitely have to wash my hair with shampoo before or after using the scrub, otherwise my scalp and hair feel oily and dirty in a day

- No long term effect - scalp/hair feels more clean for a day

- Budgie is only available at Kicks stores

- Drying to hair ends so I wouldn't use anything like this for super distressed hair. Even my hair is not a huge fan and I need extra conditioner. My hair's dyed but not bleached.



+ Smells nice, fruity, not overpowering at all

+ Quite easy to lather and massage to scalp, not a thick treatment but almost like a gel with some grains

+ Quite easy to wash off too, doesn't leave those grains/product feel/scent on hair

+ Helps to clean up scalp somewhat, not when used on its own though

+ Overall, nice, easy quick refreshing treatment to use! (Just not a true oily scalp/hair problem solver.)

* The Apple Cider Scrub is Budgie's bestseller. My mom absolutely loved this scrub and she said her hair and scalp felt really good and airy afterwards. Which is weird because I couldn't notice such a difference. Maybe I've been scrubbing my scalp more anyway? 

* The scrub lasted me a long time, about a year, and sometimes I used it just on my bangs/front scalp. Then it wasn't drying for hair and spot targeted the oily forehead - everyone probably agrees that the whole person looks dirty if bangs look oily/dirty! And they do get dirtier faster because they have more contact with my oily face.

Price: 

14,90 € / 125 ml (but often on sale)

Bought from: 

Kicks

Buy again? 

Maybe!

Worth the money? 

Budgie's The Apple Cider Scrub is not a life changing scalp scrub and definitely not the first thing to go for if you have bad problems (Nizoral is good for me when I have real problem) but it is a quick refreshing scalp product! Probably works very well for normal scalp and for others as nice momentarily pick-me-up. Price is ok during sale, I think almost 15 € is a bit much, but I find around 10 € is something I can justify.