Not Even A Tiny Tear - Please. (Johnsons Junior Shampoo Easy Rinse Foam)

Member Name: Emmald

Product:	Johnsons Junior Shampoo Easy Rinse Foam
Date:	08/06/09 (58 review reads)
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Advantages: A soft and gentle shampoo for little heads - and big ones too if they fancy it.

Disadvantages: None

I used Johnson's products when my children were young and now I am watching my daughter use some of the very same products for my grandchildren.
The smell of Johnson's baby powder is unforgettable, smell that talcum powder and you instinctively think of babies and I still buy the odd Johnson's baby powder to use myself.

Any Mum will tell you that bath times can be a nightmare, the children either take to the water like ducks to a pond or they are terrified of it. We use all sorts of tactics to try and coax them into the warm bath but when it comes to hair wash time that is another story completely.
At the moment one of my grandchildren is going through that difficult stage, he doesn't mind getting into the bath but mention washing his hair and he screams the place down.
We have tried distracting him using toys, singing nursery rhymes, you name it we have tried it but more often than not we have to resort to using a firm hand.
Given a few more months he will soon realise that washing his hair isn't so painful after all.

Johnson's have two Junior shampoos on the market, one is an easy rinse formula and the other is an easy comb shampoo.
Seeing as both of her children have been blessed with lovely blond curly locks she always buys the easy comb formula. After handling a screaming toddler and then fighting with a bath towel she can hardly muster up the energy to comb those curly locks.

The bottle definitely has child appeal, bright banana yellow plastic with a cartoon character sitting on the front smiling at you. The 250 ml bottle costs around the £2 mark but one bottle goes a very long way.
More often than not I am about at the children's bath time and although it may be a bit of an endurance test I like to help out if I can.
The bottle has a pump action dispenser, so if little hands happen to knock the bottle over then the contents aren't wasted.
I always laugh because my daughter tries to catch her two unaware, once they have had a wash she slides the shampoo bottle out and quickly squirts a drop onto each of their heads! Sometimes there is an almighty yell and other times the whole process goes far smoothly.

I must admit that I quite like the sweet fruity smell myself ! Johnson's have created a `No Tears` formula, this means that the children don't get soap in their eyes but it still doesn't stop them from crying !
The shampoo only stays on their hair for a few seconds, rub it in , lather it up and then shower it off using the spray. It is generous on the bubble front and once the children see those bubbles they do seem to have a few giggles.

I am not for one minute saying that we have a peaceful bath time, I am only too happy to gather up those wet little bodies and wrap them in a bath towel. But the shampoo does have a mild formula and as it is being rinsed away there is no rubbing smarting eyes.
So very different from when my Mum used to get the Vosene bottle out and give our hair a scrub.
Johnson's Junior shampoo is soft and gentle, it does lather well and it doesn't sting those little eyes.
So it does the job that it promises to do, but I think it will take far more than a bottle of Johnson's shampoo to make my grandchildren's hair washing session a bit more peaceful !

Most leading chemists and supermarkets stock Johnson's products.

Summary: No tears formula that makes life just a little bit easier.