Bumble and bumble Curl Moisturizing Shampoo

Editor's Take

This earns its curl-shampoo billing with creamy sulfate-free cleansing and avocado-rich conditioning, but the persistent polymers leave its environmental credentials looking considerably less polished.

Four-pillar formula scores

• Performance: 8.2 / 10
• Innovative Ingredients: 7.0 / 10
• Clean Standards: 4.8 / 10
• Formula Sustainability: 3.3 / 10

The Verdict

Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate leads a mild, modern cleansing base that should remove buildup without treating curls like laundry. Avocado, coconut, jojoba, cocoa, and shea help preserve softness, while the reinforcing polymer adds useful cosmetic support. Ethoxylated ingredients, persistent polymers, fragrance, trace chemical UV filters, and Lilial weigh heavily against its clean and sustainability profile. A credible moisturizing shampoo for curl performance, not a clean or sustainability-minded pick.

Is Bumble and bumble Curl Moisturizing Shampoo clean?

DARE scores Bumble and bumble Curl Moisturizing Shampoo by Bumble and bumble 4.8 / 10 on Clean Standards, the human-health pillar of the Formulation Architecture Model™. That reading comes from the published INCI list read as a system — preservative, fragrance and surfactant choices in context — not from flagging single ingredients in isolation.

What are the key ingredients in Bumble and bumble Curl Moisturizing Shampoo?

The formula leads with Water/Aqua/Eau, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate, Laureth-23, Coco-Betaine. DARE reads the full INCI list below in order, so position and pairing shape how each ingredient contributes under Performance and Innovative Ingredients.

How does DARE score Bumble and bumble Curl Moisturizing Shampoo?

Under the Formulation Architecture Model™, Bumble and bumble Curl Moisturizing Shampoo by Bumble and bumble scores Performance 8.2 / 10, Clean Standards 4.8 / 10, Innovative Ingredients 7.0 / 10, and Formula Sustainability 3.3 / 10. Each pillar is scored from the finished formula rather than from isolated ingredient flags.

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Full INCI list

Water/Aqua/Eau, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate, Laureth-23, Coco-Betaine, Propanediol, Glycol Distearate, PEG-150 Distearate, Acrylates Copolymer, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Tocopherol, Glycereth-26, Sodium PCA, Pantethine, Panthenyl Ethyl Ether, Sodium Hyaluronate, Octyldodecyl Citrate Crosspolymer, Decyl Glucoside, Polyquaternium-10, Polyquaternium-7, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Butylene Glycol, Sodium Chloride, BHT, Fragrance (Parfum), Limonene, Linalool, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Phenoxyethanol