Ethique GENTLE Shampoo Bar

Ethique · Shampoo

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GENTLE Shampoo Bar

A fragrance-free solid shampoo with a disclosed formula and hundreds of strong customer reviews.

  • hair care
  • fragrance-free
  • solid format
  • phthalate-free

Why it earns a place

It is a practical fragrance-free hair-care choice from a maker that explicitly excludes phthalates across its range and publishes every ingredient.

Phthalate assuranceExplicit claim + transparent formula

What backs the claim

Ethique explicitly says its formulas are phthalate-free, and the fragrance-free GENTLE product page publishes the complete ingredient list.

What it does not prove

We found no public quantitative phthalate lab report for the finished bar, so this sits below independently verified picks.

Brand-wide phthalate-free policy · full ingredient list 4.7 / 5 · 380 reviews via Ethique Check the evidence → Reviewed 2026-09-08

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Checked September 8, 2026

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Why the category matters

Research behind the recommendation.

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Pregnancy Human cohort

A large null study is evidence, not a universal guarantee

No primary association remained statistically significant after false-discovery-rate correction, and the repeated-outcome and mixture analyses also showed no significant overall association after correction. Selected MMP findings appeared in secondary age-two definitions but were not consistent across ages or analytic approaches.

Environment International, 2026 Read summary
Policy & measurement Human cohort

When exposure and response are both measured in urine

Most associations between early-pregnancy urinary phthalate or replacement metabolites and urinary placental-angiogenesis or kidney-related proteins were imprecise. The highlighted MCPP–NGAL association was no longer statistically significant after multiple-comparison correction.

Reproductive Toxicology, 2026 Read summary