What you will find are products that are more organic than their supermarket cousins.  Makers of shampoos are adding more organic ingredients to satisfy demand in the marketplace.  There are a range of home remedies for dandruff that you can access at my customer organic shampoo search.  Apple cider vinegar, warm coconut oil and lemon juice are all cited as remedies for dandruff.  I understand that there are warnings however, that it will take a few days for your hair to adjust and feel clean again.

Dandruff is a condition of dry, flaky skin on the scalp that falls of in flakes and shows up on your dark clothes. There is a product form Burt’s Bees called Feelin’ Flaky that promises anti dandruff action.  The lengthy list of ingredients like vegetable glycerin, lemon fruit water, sucrose cocoate, willowbark extract, peppermint extract, willow leaf extract, burdock root extract, nettles leaf extract, cedar leaf oil, tea tree oil, lemon oil, tea tree oil, peppermint oil, juniper oil and rosemary oil make it seem like it could “contain organic materials”.  It seems as though it is an organic dandruff shampoo.  The shampoo will get your hair clean (surfactants like sucrose cocoate) and it will not fry your scalp out as the cleansers are pretty mild.  But due to the fact that there are no active ingredients to combat the dandruff, it won’t fix your problem no matter what the name says.

For a shampoo to really be for dandruff relief it must contain some kind of medication for the symptoms.  Most medicated dandruff shampoos use zinc pyrithione or ZPT.  In Europe and overseas look for products that contain Octoporyx as the active ingredient.  If you do not see either of these or a section of the label that says “Active Ingredients” do not believe the cosmetic companies claims of dandruff fighting ability.