No ingredient in this formula is flagged in our pregnancy database. That is not medical advice — ask your doctor about anything you are unsure of.
Declared fragrance allergens: LIMONENE, LINALOOL, CITRAL, BENZYL BENZOATE, GERANIOL.
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Ritual Hair Oil Lavender & Patchouli
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Take the hair assessmentThe AROMATICA Ritual Hair Oil Lavender & Patchouli is a luxurious plant-based hair oil designed to deeply nourish and repair damaged strands while restoring silky smoothness. Enriched with lavender and patchouli essential oils, this lightweight formula not only strengthens brittle hair but also provides a calming aromatic ritual that soothes the senses during your daily care routine. Its fast-absorbing texture adds shine without greasiness, making it an essential treatment for dull, dry, or frizz-prone hair.
Written from the ingredient list. Where it describes how a formula behaves, that is inferred from what the ingredients are and where they sit in the list, not measured.
Ritual Hair Oil Lavender & Patchouli is a hair oil from AROMATICA, aimed at coily hair, curly hair and coarse hair. On the evidence of its ingredient list, the formula works on moisture, shine and frizz control. The ingredients doing most of that work are Isopropyl Myristate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate and Citrus Aurantium Bergamia Fruit Oil. The list runs to 26 ingredients, 19 of which carry a role we recognise for hair.
The oils and film-formers sit high enough in the list that the formula reads as rich — good for coarse, dry or very porous hair, and the kind of thing that can flatten fine hair. There are no silicones in the list. The formula leans to moisture rather than protein.
On an oily scalp the richer ingredients here can read as greasy at the roots.
Nothing in the list is the kind of ingredient that accumulates on hair. For low porosity the formula is on the heavy side — it can sit on top rather than absorb.
It is a finishing step, applied last on damp or dry lengths.
Nothing in this formula is aimed at protein & strength, scalp soothing, oil control and volume / lightweight — not a fault, just the shape of what is in the bottle, and the reason one product rarely covers a whole routine. No ingredient here is one we recognise as supporting hair growth. Reducing breakage and growing hair are different things, and this formula's evidence is for the first.
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Read from the formula's weight, its build-up and its protein — not from a claim on the packaging.
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Nothing in this formula is one we recognise as supporting hair growth. Reducing breakage and growing hair are different claims.
Sulfate-free.
Silicone-free.
Estimated from which ingredients are present and how high they sit in the list, not measured.
Reads as a rich formula.
Nothing here accumulates on hair.
Inferred from the formula's weight, humectants and protein.
Cuticles are tight; moisture penetrates poorly.
Cuticles are moderately open; moisture is absorbed well.
Cuticles are open; moisture absorbs fast but is also lost rapidly.
Fits the method: no sulfates, no persistent silicones, no drying alcohol.
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"Free from" is only claimed when every ingredient on the label resolved to one we know.
No ingredient in this formula is flagged in our pregnancy database. That is not medical advice — ask your doctor about anything you are unsure of.
Declared fragrance allergens: LIMONENE, LINALOOL, CITRAL, BENZYL BENZOATE, GERANIOL.
One ingredient usually does several jobs, so these counts add up to more than the list length.
19 of 26 ingredients carry a role we recognise for hair.
ISOPROPYL MYRISTATE, ETHYLHEXYL PALMITATE, CITRUS AURANTIUM BERGAMIA FRUIT OIL, HYDROGENATED FARNESENE, PROPYLENE GLYCOL DICAPRYLATE/DICAPRATE, PENTACLETHRA MACROLOBA SEED OIL, ARGANIA SPINOSA KERNEL OIL, ORBIGNYA OLEIFERA SEED OIL, MORINGA OLEIFERA SEED OIL, SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS SEED OIL, PRUNUS AMYGDALUS DULCIS OIL, OLUS OIL, COCOS NUCIFERA OIL, TOCOPHEROL, LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA OIL, ANIBA ROSAEODORA WOOD OIL, ROSA CANINA FRUIT OIL, CITRUS AURANTIUM DULCIS PEEL OIL, CANANGA ODORATA FLOWER OIL, POGOSTEMON CABLIN LEAF OIL, COCO-CAPRYLATE/CAPRATE, LIMONENE, LINALOOL, CITRAL, BENZYL BENZOATE, GERANIOL.
Yes. There is no sulfate detergent anywhere in the ingredient list.
Yes. There are no silicones in the ingredient list.
Yes. The list carries no sulfate detergent, no non-water-soluble silicone and no drying alcohol, which are the three the method excludes.
By the weight and build-up of the formula it reads as suited to coily hair, curly hair, coarse hair, thick hair. It may be less comfortable on fine hair.
No. There is no hydrolyzed protein or amino acid in the ingredient list.
Nothing in the list is the kind of ingredient that accumulates on hair.
Nothing in the formula is the kind of ingredient that strips colour, and it carries conditioning ingredients that help it hold.
Last, on damp or dry lengths.
No. The list carries LIMONENE, LINALOOL, CITRAL, BENZYL BENZOATE, GERANIOL.
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