Gray Hair Shampoo + Vinegar Rinse Duo

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Product Overview
  • Brighter Silver, No Purple: A gray hair clarifying set that lifts the buildup behind yellow, brassy-looking tones, with no purple dye to tint silver, white, or gray.
  • Two Steps, a Deeper Clean: The shampoo handles everyday oil and dirt, then the rinse reaches the mineral deposits and product residue washing alone leaves behind.
  • A Clean Slate for Growing Out Color: Growing out dye? This clarifying shampoo for white hair and highlights helps lift dye residue, so natural silver looks clean instead of muddy.
  • Shine for Every Shade: More than a clarifying shampoo for grey hair, this pair clears dulling residue so silver and white strands look glossy and luminous.
  • Softer, Easier Hair: Avocado Oil, found in both formulas, works to soften coarse, porous-feeling strands so they feel smoother and detangle more easily.
  • Gentle Wash Days In Between: The sulfate-free Gray Hair Shampoo cleanses without stripping natural oils, so regular washing keeps hair soft and comfortable.
  • Fresh, Balanced Scalp: Apple Cider Vinegar in the rinse helps bring scalp pH back into balance, leaving your scalp feeling fresh and comfortable.
Product Description

When gray hair starts looking yellow, the cause is often buildup, not your color. This gray hair clarifying set clears it in two steps, with no purple dye to leave silver lilac. Lighter, more porous strands hold on to hard water minerals, styling residue, and everyday pollutants, and that film reads as brassy.

The sulfate-free Gray Hair Shampoo is your everyday step. Clover Flower and Guava Fruit Extracts join Avocado Oil for hydration, shine, and easy manageability. Every fifteen days, the Vinegar Rinse Cleanser goes further: Apple Cider Vinegar loosens mineral deposits and product residue, while Aloe Vera and herbal extracts like Nettle Root and Horsetail keep strands soft instead of squeaky.

Why the pair? Shampoo alone can't lift every layer, and the rinse is made to follow a fresh wash. Together they work as a clarifying shampoo for gray hair routine that brightens without stripping. Still looking for the best clarifying shampoo for gray hair? Try two steps instead of one. The rinse's tangy vinegar scent fades as you rinse, softened by Lavender and Orange Peel oils.

Benefits
  • No Purple Dye in Either Bottle: A gray hair clarifying set with no purple or violet dye, so lighter hair brightens without a lilac cast.
  • Sulfate-Free Cleansing: Both products cleanse with gentle, sulfate-free cleansers made for regular use on lighter, delicate strands.
  • Silicone-Free and Paraben-Free: No silicones or parabens in either formula, so nothing coats your strands or builds back up.
  • Essential Oil Scent: Both formulas get their fresh, herbal scent from essential oils, with no added parfum.
  • Made for Every Kind of Gray: Gentle on natural, color-treated, highlighted, and bleached hair, whether gray, silver, or white.
  • Plant-Based Formulas: Built on plant oils and botanical extracts, with full ingredient lists you can read and understand.
  • Vegan and Cruelty-Free: Both products are vegan and never tested on animals, so your routine reflects your values.
  • Made in the USA: Every Just Nutritive gray hair clarifying bundle set is crafted in the USA by a family-owned, plant-based brand.
How to Use
  1. Shake the Gray Hair Shampoo well and massage it into wet hair and scalp. For extra brightness, leave it on a minute or two, then rinse.
  2. On clarifying days, shake the Vinegar Rinse Cleanser and massage it into freshly washed hair and scalp, roots to tips.
  3. Leave the Rinse on one to three minutes, then rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water.
  4. Follow with your conditioner.
Tips
  • Keep your gray hair clarifying set on a simple rhythm: Shampoo about twice a week (or daily if you prefer), Rinse every fifteen days.
  • Rinsing more often may leave hair feeling dry.
  • Finish with a cool-water rinse to keep silver looking vibrant.
Ingredients

Gray Hair Shampoo

Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera Hydrosol), Trifolium Pratense (Clover Flower) Extract, Psidium Guajava (Guava Fruit) Extract, Citrus Sinensis (Orange) Peel Oil, Persea Americana (Avocado) Oil, Punica Granatum (Pomegranate Seed) Oil, Hydrolyzed Rice Protein, Salvia Hispanica (Chia) Oil, Ribes Nigrum (Blackcurrant) Seed Oil, Decyl Glucoside, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Oil, Thymus Vulgaris (Thyme) Oil, Salvia Sclarea (Clary Sage) Oil, Guar hydroxypropyltrimonium, Glycerin, Pelargonium Graveolens (Rose Geranium) Oil, Methylcellulose, Caprylyl Glycol, Santalum Album (Sandalwood) Oil, Citric Acid, Panthenol (Vitamin B5).

Vinegar Rinse Cleanser

Acetic Acid (Apple Cider Vinegar), Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera Hydrosol), Urtica Dioica (Nettle Root) Extract, Symphytum Officinale (Comfrey Root) Extract, Plantago Lanceolata (Plantain) Extract, Persea Americana (Avocado) Oil, Equisetum Arvense (Horsetail) Extract, Psidium Guajava (Guava Leaf) Extract, Lagerstroemia Speciosa (Banaba Leaf) Extract, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside, Xanthan Gum, Glycerin, Melaleuca Alternifolia (Tea Tree) Oil, Citrus Sinensis (Orange) Peel Oil, Leptospermum Scoparium (Manuka) Oil, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Oil, Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Salvia Sclarea (Clary Sage) Oil, Glyceryl Caprylate, Phenethyl Alcohol, Cedrus Atlantica (Atlas Cedarwood) Oil, Cymbopogon Flexuosus (Lemongrass) Oil, Arctium Lappa (Burdock Root) Extract, Panthenol (Vitamin B5).

FAQs

What's in the Gray Hair Shampoo + Vinegar Rinse Duo?

Two products that work as one routine. The Gray Hair Shampoo is your everyday wash: a sulfate-free, non-purple shampoo that cleanses without stripping natural oils. The Vinegar Rinse Cleanser is your clarifying step every fifteen days, with Apple Cider Vinegar to loosen the mineral deposits and product residue that can leave gray, silver, and white hair looking yellow and dull. Neither bottle contains purple dye.

Which do I use first, shampoo or rinse?

Shampoo first. Wash with the Gray Hair Shampoo and rinse it out, then massage the Vinegar Rinse Cleanser into your clean, wet hair and scalp, roots to tips. Leave it on for one to three minutes, rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water, and finish with your conditioner. Between clarifying days, the Gray Hair Shampoo is all you need.

How often should I clarify gray hair?

With this set, clarify every fifteen days: use the Vinegar Rinse Cleanser after shampooing, about twice a month. In between, wash with the Gray Hair Shampoo about twice a week, or daily if that's your rhythm. Using the rinse much more often may leave hair feeling dry, so save it for when your gray, silver, or white starts looking yellow, dull, or weighed down.

Will it strip color-treated hair?

Both formulas are sulfate-free and gentle on color-treated, highlighted, and bleached hair. The Gray Hair Shampoo cleanses without stripping natural oils, and the Vinegar Rinse Cleanser is color safe. Keep in mind that the rinse is made to lift what sits on the surface of your strands, including leftover dye residue, so a toner or gloss may fade sooner after a rinse. Some customers use the rinse the day before a color or toning appointment, so fresh color goes on over a clean slate.

Can I use this set instead of purple shampoo?

Yes. This set brightens without purple. Instead of depositing violet pigment to tone yellow, it lifts the buildup behind yellow, brassy-looking tones, so there's nothing to leave silver or white hair with a lilac tint. Neither the Gray Hair Shampoo nor the Vinegar Rinse Cleanser contains purple or violet dye.

Will my hair smell like vinegar?

A little, in the shower. The Vinegar Rinse Cleanser has a tangy apple cider vinegar scent, softened by essential oils like Lavender and Orange Peel. Most reviewers who mention it say the scent fades once the rinse is washed out thoroughly. If you're sensitive to scent, rinse a little longer with lukewarm water and follow with your conditioner. The Gray Hair Shampoo has a fresh, herbal essential oil scent, with no vinegar at all.

Is it the same as rinsing with kitchen apple cider vinegar?

Not quite. Apple Cider Vinegar leads the formula, but the Vinegar Rinse Cleanser is a finished, ready-to-use rinse. It adds Aloe Vera and Avocado Oil to keep strands soft instead of squeaky, herbal extracts like Nettle Root and Horsetail, Panthenol for shine and manageability, essential oils for a fresher scent, and gentle cleansers that help lift product residue. It's made to massage in, sit for one to three minutes, and rinse clean, with no measuring or mixing.

Do I still need a conditioner?

Yes. Neither product is a conditioner, so finish with one after every wash, and especially after the rinse. Our Gray Hair Conditioner pairs naturally with this set: apply it to your ends, leave it on a few minutes, then rinse.

Does it work on blonde or highlighted hair?

Yes. Lighter hair of any kind shows buildup quickly. The Vinegar Rinse Cleanser is formulated for gray, silver, white, blonde, and highlighted hair, and the Gray Hair Shampoo is mild enough for highlighted and bleached hair. Neither deposits pigment, so lighter tones look clean and bright. If you use a toner to keep blonde cool, keep in mind the rinse may fade it sooner.

Is the set sulfate-free, silicone-free, and vegan?

Yes. Both formulas are free from sulfates, silicones, parabens, and purple or violet dyes, and both get their scent from essential oils, with no added parfum. They're vegan, cruelty-free, and never tested on animals, and they're made in the USA by Just Nutritive, a family-owned, plant-based hair and skin care brand. Every ingredient in both products is listed on this page.

  • 5 stars: 23 (74%)
  • 4 stars: 4 (13%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 2 stars: 2 (6%)
  • 1 star: 2 (6%)
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Karen

Love this shampoo. Great for white hair with no blue hair!!

Hello! Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! We're thrilled to hear that you're loving our Gray Hair Shampoo and that it's working so well for your beautiful white hair! Our formula is designed to enhance your hair's natural shine, softness, and brightness without leaving unwanted blue or purple tones. We truly appreciate you sharing your experience and being part of the Just Nutritive family! 😊💚

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Teresa Brooks

Gray Hair Clarifying Duo

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Peggy Freedman
Gray Hair Clarifying Duo is the answer to my prayers!

I'm a longtime fan of Gray Hair Shampoo and love it. I recently purchased the Vinegar Rinse and cannot believe how effective that is on yellowing. I blow dry just about every day, spent a lot of time in a salt water pool this summer. My hair shows the damage, so I tried this Rinse and I'm already seeing improvement after 2 uses. So happy I tried it, I've tried other solutions and they didn't do a thing.

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Lynn McMain
Great for silver/gray hair

I love the shampoo and the vinegar rinse! My hair has never looked or felt better. Easy!

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Culleysgrl
Color day

I use the vinegar cleansing the night before I am toning my hair. It gets all the buildup of product before it’s toned or colored.

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Frances White
shampoo and rince with Vinegar rince

I love the product.

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Jean Henderson
Clarifying solution

This product is horrible. It leaves your hair smelling like a combination of rotten eggs and vinegar mixed together. After your hair dries the smell does not leave. I had to wash and dry my hair an additional 2 time after using the product to get the smell out. Plus it did not help with the yellowing streaks in my white hair. I have been using white vinegar on my hair, which works, thought I would try a different product. Mistake!!! The shampoo isn't much better. I saw no results after using the shampoo and it has a slight smell to it as well but after your hair dries it subsides some what. I use white vinegar and it is a lot cheaper than this expensive product that does nothing.

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Melissa

Love the shampoo, been using for months now. The clarifying rinse does what it should. Left my hair feeling dry. I recommend using conditioner on your ends after.

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Susan Boretsky
Gray hair

I have not noticed yet?

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Denise
Only used it once since it arrived

That being said, my hair feels soft, I like it so far and looking forward to seeing how it works as I continue to use it!

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KJ
Great

Have used the the grey hair shampoo and conditioner, the vinegar rinse and the purple shampoo and conditioner. My favorite is the purple shampoo and conditioner. I always get a lot of compliments of how shiny my hair is after. Was having problems with yellowing and these products have help correct that. Will definitely keep
Using.

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Diane Mendoza
Love This Stuff!!

I have been using the shampoo for many years. Did it miraculously remove all the yellow in a few shampoos? NO, but it did continue to lighten it until my normal trims got rid of it or it did lighten the higher up discoloration out. And it continues to KEEP it out. My hair is soft and healthy. I use the Vinegar Rinse periodically to keep my scalp healthy. I went thru a bout of massive hair fallout. I wrote Just Nutritive & they recommended the Rinse. I had it but hadn't really used it because it made my hair too soft. I used it every other shampoo for about a month when I noticed my hair wasn't falling out as much. At 2 months the fallout was back to a normal amount. I now use it once or twice a month and I feel my scalp is so much more healthy & happy. The Gray Hair Conditioner I only use on my ends, otherwise, my hair gets too soft. I have very fine hair and have always had to skip conditioner so, at least I can use this on my ends to control frizziness & split ends. Never going back........

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Dianne Kahler

Good

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Gray hair duo
Gray hair clarifying duo

This duo keeps my silver gray hair so shiny and keeps the yellow away. It’s the only shampoo I will use! Really like the product.

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Bertie

Just received it today haven’t been able to use it yet, but looking forward to it

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Susan
Product is Awesome

I was a bit skeptical about trying the vinegar rinse but WOW it really made a difference, my hair felt lighter and shined so much. I am so happy with the shampoo and conditioner which i have been using on my gray hair.

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Teri
Not working as expected

Just started using in the last month when received but see no difference in clarifying products. Disappointing.

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Carla Chan
No results yet

I have been using the clarifying duo since it arrived. I have not seen any results yet. I'll finish the shampoo weather I get results ornot, as it is expensive! My hair is soft and smooth, and I like that, ijust really want to get rid of the brassiness.

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Lynn Killman
Works great

Makes my hair soft. Haven't noticed purer gray but only used a few times

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Linda West
my thoughts

The 4 star rating is due to the metallic odor when I use the clarifying shampoo, otherwise I am very happy with these two!

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Darla
Helping to brighten my hair

I’ve used the shampoo and vinegar rinse and have seen an improvement in color brightening.

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Deb Kohan
Best hair product EVER

I have tried too many hair products to count. Nutritive is by far the best! The gray shampoo and conditioner has restored my gray from yellow/green to beautiful silver.

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Lorena Williams

Excellent product leaving my silver hair shiny and soft while holding its style.

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Ani A
I'm a believer

I had used the Gray Hair shampoo in the past and switched to another "natural' brand. It left my hair dry and dull so I decided to go back to the JustNutritive products. After just a week my hair is soft and shiny again.

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Cathy
My true color shining through

I had been using a product that was suppose to be good for blondes and gray hair. It had begun turning my hair purple. I was so thankful to find Just Nutritive for gray hair. My hair looks lovely again and I am getting many compliments.

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Virginia
Looks Good

The duo lifted some of the yellow out; it has been a nightmare ridding my grey/white hair of yellow. I see some beautiful shiny white hair and am hoping it takes all the yellow eventurally. I'll keep using it because I like what I see so far.

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laura
dynamic dua

after using this duo I got sold into trying a different shampoo, was not happy with my hair. reordered this and one shampoo and vinegar rinse and I was so happy how much better my hair looked!

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Dawn Blair
Gray Shampoo and Conditioner

LOVE this product! My grey hair is finally losing the purple and brassy tones and feels SO soft, is so manageable and I have never received more compliments. Thank-you!

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RK
Gray shampoo, conditioner and vinegar rinse

My hair no longer has a purple tint and not so brittle and dry. I’m loving your hair products.

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Shelly
Gray hair shampoo Duo

Loved it after the first use. Duo was a mistake but I just ordered the conditioner. Sometimes mistakes are good.

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Catherine Capstick
Shampoo conditioner and vinegar rinse

I didn’t write a review until I used this product for a couple weeks I simply love it.my hair is thick and coarse but these shampoo and conditioner are amazing. I have several different people asking me if I put a dye in my hair because these products are leaving my hair softer and a richer colour. I will use them always