Aveda Sap Moss Shampoo Review

When I was still in high school, it became clear that I was destined to inherit Grandpa Fiske's prematurely white hair.  I found my first three white hairs before I was eighteen.  During the next few decades, other white hairs quickly followed and as time went by I became used to the idea.  Since my hair had started to "turn" so early, I didn't really connect the idea of "snow on the roof" with the concept of aging.  Because I had always admired Grandpa's brilliantly white hair, I was rather glad to see my own becoming brighter and whiter as the years progressed.  It seemed to me that my complexion adjusted to the change somehow too and to try on a wig in my original hair color now seemed to be glaring somehow. 

I think it would be safe to say that one of the things I have enjoyed most about getting older was my white hair and I would never think of trying to dye it -- and so it surprised me when a few years ago, well-meaning people began to ask me if I was tinting my hair.  Who, MOI??  Not likely, but after a while even my beauty technician, Donna Prenta, asked me if I was trying to tint my hair yellow!  I could truthfully reply in the negative but it took us a while to figure out what was happening.  If Donna hadn't been such a master of her craft and so knowledgeable about the human body, we might not have learned what was going on at all and my hair might be mustard-colored today.  One day, acting on a hunch, she asked me what kind of products I was using on my hair.  BINGO!  There I was, using a bargain brand which was gold-colored and never suspecting what it would do to my hair.  It turns out that people with white or gray hair should never use shampoo or conditioner which contains Yellow No. 10 dye.

Donna took the extra time to help me pick out hair care products which contained no adverse ingredients for my situation -- Aveda Sap Moss Shampoo and Conditioner.  According to the information on the official Aveda site, "Tap into nature's life force:  sap.  We've blended an array of sap with moisture-rich Iceland moss -- used for centuries in the Arctic for healing treatments -- to create a nourishing shampoo that gently restores health to your hair."  It certainly has done the trick for me.  Aveda Sap Moss Shampoo and Conditioner are available in 4-1/2 oz. tubes for $12 a piece and are well worth the price for anyone, but especially those of us who are going the "snow route."  I redeemed some MyPoints for $50 gift cards for CVS and Walgreen's and stocked up on some personal care products, including plenty of Aveda.

It is said that "Into every life, a little rain must fall."  By the same token, as medical advances and other improvements increase our life span, eventually most of us will have to decide what to do with hair which turns white or gray.  I respect anyone's personal decision about that but as for me, I love the "snow on my roof" and am very glad that I have found hair products that treat what's up there with respect.