Sometimes it's not so easy to convince your child of the benefits of washing their hair. Of course, it goes without saying that a children's shampoo should not sting the eyes. So it's all the better if it also prevents outraged exclamations of "Ewww, it pulls!" by improving the combability of the washed hair. This shampoo contains almond oil, shea butter and cocoa butter, which make it easy to comb through the hair after washing. These oils and fats have an equally beneficial nourishing effect when used as a shower gel on children's sensitive skin. To wash hair, the solid shampoo is lathered up in the hand, massaged into damp hair and rinsed out after a short application time. The shower shampoo is also simply lathered up in the shower, applied to the skin and rinsed off.

In addition to its nourishing effect, the solid shampoo and shower gel scores points with its plastic-free paper packaging.

The three founders of Hydrophil – Christoph Laudon, Wanja Johannes Weskott and Sebastian Bensmann – call themselves “water lovers”. And that’s what the name of their company means, since the name comes from the Ancient Greek, “hýdor” meaning water and “phílos”, loving. Their common interests and a blog post by Sebastian on “Water consumption in textile production” gave rise to a joint idea in 2013: They wanted to bring their own products to the market – fair-trade and vegan products manufactured in a water-friendly way. Water-friendly products are products whose components of natural origin have been cultivated without artificial irrigation and which, when composted, leave no harmful residues in the groundwater. Hydrophil’s first product – a T-shirt – proved enormously popular and prompted the founders to expand the range. The company now specialises in the manufacture of hygiene and personal care products – because, what better place to save water than in the bathroom?

By the way: Hydrophil donates 10% of the profits to the non-profit association Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli e.V., which is committed to providing access to clean drinking water and sanitary facilities for people in countries of the global south.