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Shampooing Sebo-Reequilibrant

OILY SCALP DETOX
Shampooing Sebo-Reequilibrant
Biologique Recherche
Benefits
  • Colour Protecting
  • Hair Strengthening
  • Promotes Shine
  • Antioxidant
  • Scalp Soothing
  • Sebum-Regulating
  • Hydrating

The Biologique Recherche Shampooing Sebo-Reequilibrant is a scalp-balancing shampoo that gently purifies the hair and scalp while regulating excess sebum, supporting scalp vitality and protecting against environmental stress. Zinc PCA and Sarcosine help control oil production, reduce dandruff-causing imbalances and maintain a cleaner, fresher scalp environment, while Copper PCA supports scalp metabolism and healthy hair follicle function.

A Colour Protect Complex shields the hair fiber from oxidative stress and environmental pollutants such as UV exposure and chemical aggressors, helping prevent pigment breakdown and colour fading while preserving luminosity.

Tetraselmis Suecica Microalgae and Yeast Extract provide antioxidant protection, strengthen the scalp’s natural defences and support comfort and resilience, and Glycerin maintains hydration, improves moisture retention and leaves the hair soft, smooth and balanced after cleansing.

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The Biologique Recherche Shampooing Sebo-Reequilibrant is a scalp-balancing shampoo that gently purifies the hair and scalp while regulating excess sebum, supporting scalp vitality and protecting against environmental stress. Zinc PCA and Sarcosine help control oil production, reduce dandruff-causing imbalances and maintain a cleaner, fresher scalp environment, while Copper PCA supports scalp metabolism and healthy hair follicle function.

A Colour Protect Complex shields the hair fiber from oxidative stress and environmental pollutants such as UV exposure and chemical aggressors, helping prevent pigment breakdown and colour fading while preserving luminosity.

Tetraselmis Suecica Microalgae and Yeast Extract provide antioxidant protection, strengthen the scalp’s natural defences and support comfort and resilience, and Glycerin maintains hydration, improves moisture retention and leaves the hair soft, smooth and balanced after cleansing.

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More Info

  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Ingredients
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + About the Brand
  • - + Who it is for
  • - + How to Apply
  • - + Ingredients
  • - + Smell & Texture
  • - + About the Brand
Who it is for
Green tick
For you if

Dandruff-Prone

Oily Scalp

Unbalanced Scalp

Hair Strength

Antioxidant Support

Coloured Hair

Red Cross
Not For you if

Dry Scalp

Dry Hair


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How to Apply
Apply a generous amount of the Shampooing Sebo-Reequilibrant to wet hair, lather and gently massage from roots to lengths. Rinse with tepid water and repeat for a second cleanse..
Ingredients

Water (Aqua), Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Glycerin, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Lauryl Glucoside, Glyceryl Oleate, Tetraselmis Suecica Extract, Caesalpinia Spinosa Fruit Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Sprout Extract, Yeast Extract, Zinc PCA, Citric Acid, Copper PCA, Sarcosine, Lactic Acid, Cocoglucoside, Dicaprylyl Ether, Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Decyl Glucoside, Maltodextrin, Mannitol, Tocopherol, Propylene Glycol, Hydrogenated Palm Glycerides Citrate, Acrylates Copolymer, Polyquaternium-7, Trisodium Ethylenediamine Disuccinate, Polyquaternium-10, Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Hydroxide, Benzoic Acid

Please note: The ingredients listed in this product are subject to change as the formulation is updated. We aim to update the INCI list as soon as possible, but we encourage you to read the ingredient list on the product itself to ensure it's suitable for your personal use.

Smell & Texture

Smell: No added fragrance

Texture: A gel-like lightweight texture with a blue tint.

About the Brand
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Founded in Paris in the late 1970s by biologist Yvan Allouche and physiotherapist Josette Allouche, Biologique Recherche began as a laboratory for bespoke, high-performance formulas for elite skin professionals. Their medical-grade precision and artisanal formulation, paired with consummate savoir-faire, underpin their reputation for outstanding, clinically proven results.

Biologique Recherche treats skin according to its Skin Instant©, the skin’s precise, evolving state. Each formula is loaded with active ingredients in exceptional concentrations, then prescribed to address those real-time needs. This precision approach corrects imbalances, restores function, and delivers visible, lasting transformation.

Cold-processed actives are the core of Biologique Recherche. Formulated at 18–25°C, this method avoids the 70°C heat of standard processing that breaks down actives. Botanical, marine, and biotechnological extracts stay intact for higher absorption, stronger repair, and better tolerance. Antioxidants, peptides, and enzymes remain stable, ensuring consistent, visible results.

The Benefits

  • - + Colour-Protecting
  • - + Strengthening
  • - + Promoting Shine
  • - + Antioxidant Protection
  • - + Soothing the Scalp
  • - + Sebum Regulating
  • - + Hydrating
Colour-Protecting

Colour Protection in haircare is essential for maintaining vibrancy, strength, and long-term hair health, especially after colouring or chemical treatments. Daily exposure to UV rays, frequent washing, and thermal styling can break down pigments, weaken the cuticle, and leave hair dull and fragile.

This is where targeted colour-protecting care becomes critical. By shielding the hair from oxidative stress and helping the cuticle scales remain closed, it helps lock in colour and preserve luminosity. Hair stays radiant and reflective, while structural damage caused by treatments like bleaching is reduced. With consistent use, coloured hair looks brighter for longer, feels stronger, and is better protected against future fading and external aggressors.

Strengthening

Strengthening in haircare is all about restoring your hair's healthy structure and enhancing its resilience against damage, breakage, and the stresses of daily styling, such as heat exposure. Strengthening haircare products deliver essential components like proteins, hydration, and lipids that work together to reinforce hair strands. They support internal hair bonds, restore moisture, and coat the outer layer to protect and smooth, resulting in a shinier, smoother finish. By promoting a healthier hair structure, these products encourage faster hair growth and improve manageability.

Promoting Shine

Promoting Shine in haircare is all about restoring the hair’s surface integrity so it can better reflect light. Shine is a direct result of a smooth, sealed cuticle, when the protective outer scales lie flat, light reflects evenly, giving hair its healthy, radiant appearance.

Dry, damaged, or lipid-depleted hair loses this reflectivity due to raised, fragmented cuticles. Shine-enhancing formulations work by replenishing moisture and essential lipids, smoothing the hair fibre, and coating it with film-forming actives. These ingredients help repair surface damage, seal the cuticle, and create a polished finish, leaving hair softer, glossier, and more vibrant. By reinforcing both hydration and structure, these formulas restore luminosity and improve overall hair vitality.

Antioxidant Protection

Antioxidant protection in haircare uses natural molecules known as antioxidants to neutralise harmful free radicals. These unstable, reactive atoms are caused by environmental factors like pollution, UV radiation, and chemical exposure, which can damage hair follicles and irritate the scalp, leading to hair loss, compromised growth, and weakened hair structure. By incorporating antioxidants into your haircare routine, you can combat these negative effects and promote healthy, strong, radiant, and smooth hair.

Soothing the Scalp

Soothing Care for the Scalp is essential when the barrier function is disrupted by factors such as genetics, inflammatory skin conditions, harsh haircare products, or environmental stressors. The scalp, with its dense network of nerve endings and microflora, is highly sensitive and prone to discomfort including itching, redness, dryness, and flaking.

Soothing active ingredients with anti-inflammatory and microbiome-balancing properties help calm irritation, reduce redness, and restore barrier integrity. By reinforcing the scalp’s physical, biological, and microbiological defences, these ingredients promote long-term comfort, reduce hypersensitivity, and support a healthy environment for strong, resilient hair growth

Sebum Regulating

An oily scalp is characterised by increased sebum production, leading to excess oil on the scalp and hair fibre. While sebum supports hydration and barrier function, overproduction can cause a greasy appearance, reduced volume and product build-up.

Excess oil may also disrupt the scalp microbiome, contributing to congestion, irritation or dandruff. Targeted care focuses on regulating sebum, maintaining microbial balance and gently removing excess oil, helping restore a cleaner, more balanced scalp environment and improved manageability.

Hydrating

Hydrating your hair means boosting its water content to ensure strands stay resilient, flexible, and healthy. Proper hydration is key to preserving the integrity of your hair's cuticle. When well-hydrated, the cuticle lies flat and smooth, creating a barrier against environmental damage and reducing friction between strands, which results in less tangling and a smoother texture. Heat styling, sun exposure, and harsh chemical treatments can strip your hair of its natural moisture. Using gentle haircare products designed to hydrate without weighing your hair down helps prevent dryness, brittleness, and breakage while enhancing shine and making your hair more manageable.

  • - + Colour-Protecting
  • - + Strengthening
  • - + Promoting Shine
  • - + Antioxidant Protection
  • - + Soothing the Scalp
  • - + Sebum Regulating
  • - + Hydrating

Active Ingredients

  • - + Colour Protect Complex
  • - + Zinc
  • - + Sarcosine
  • - + Copper
  • - + Tetraselmis Suecica Extract
  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Glycerin
Colour Protect Complex

The Colour Protect Complex consists of Tara tannins, which are rich in polyphenols that act as powerful antioxidants, forming a protective film around the hair shaft and neutralising free radicals generated by UV, pollution and heat styling. This prevents the breakdown of both melanin (natural pigment) and artificial colour molecules inside the fibre. The young sunflower sprout extract reinforces this protection by preserving the integrity of the hair’s internal lipids and proteins, which keeps the cuticle smoother and less porous — and the smoother the cuticle, the longer colour stays locked in. Together, they slow down photo-oxidation, reduce fibre oxidation, and help maintain vibrancy, shine and tonal fidelity over time.

Zinc

Zinc Extract offers potent healing, astringent and antimicrobial properties. It helps regulate hormone-triggered oil production, effectively regulating excess sebum on the scalp. It also aids in the reduction of scalp imbalance, which causes the dandruff, allowing for a healthier scalp environment.

Sarcosine

Sarcosine is a sebum-regulating amino-acid derivative that helps control excess oil production on the scalp over time. By supporting a more balanced sebum flow without disrupting the skin’s natural barrier, it helps maintain a cleaner, fresher scalp while avoiding the dryness and tightness often caused by harsh cleansing agents.

Copper

Copper supports the scalp metabolism and oxygenation, thus maintaining a healthier hair follicle function, which in turn allows the hair to have more vitality and to have more density.

Tetraselmis Suecica Extract

Tetraselmis Suecica Extract is a nutrient-rich microalgae, is naturally high in minerals and antioxidants that help protect the scalp from environmental stress and oxidative damage. By reinforcing the scalp’s natural defence mechanisms, it supports comfort, resilience and overall scalp health, helping maintain a balanced environment for healthier-looking hair.

Yeast Extract

Yeast Extract is a bioactive complex composed of mineral salts, carbohydrates, lipids, and B vitamins, particularly Vitamin B-complex, known for supporting skin and scalp integrity. It offers rebalancing properties, regulating both sebum production and hydration, making it ideal for oily or dry scalps. On a cellular level, it stimulates phagocytosis and lysosome formation in keratinocytes, enhancing detoxification and promoting a clearer, more radiant appearance.

Glycerin

Glycerin is a powerful humectant that attracts and retains hydration within the scalp and hair, helping to maintain optimal hydration levels. By preventing dryness and irritation, it supports scalp comfort while leaving the hair softer, smoother and more resilient after cleansing.

  • - + Colour Protect Complex
  • - + Zinc
  • - + Sarcosine
  • - + Copper
  • - + Tetraselmis Suecica Extract
  • - + Yeast Extract
  • - + Glycerin
Dandruff

Dandruff is a common dermatological condition characterised by the presence of white or yellowish flakes of desquamated stratum corneum on the scalp. It is frequently accompanied by pruritus (itching) and may extend beyond the scalp to affect adjacent areas.

The pathophysiology of dandruff involves a complex interaction between sebaceous gland activity, individual immune response, and the microbiome of the scalp, particularly the overgrowth of the yeast-like fungus Malassezia spp., which is lipophilic and thrives in sebum-rich environments. This fungus is a normal commensal of human skin, but under certain conditions, it can proliferate excessively and disrupt the balance of the skin barrier.

In response to the irritation caused by Malassezia metabolites (e.g., oleic acid), the skin may increase sebum production and accelerate epidermal cell turnover. This leads to the accumulation and rapid shedding of corneocytes, which combine with excess oil and fungal elements to form visible flakes. These components can further irritate the skin, perpetuating a cycle of inflammation and scaling.

Spotlight

Dandruff

Dandruff is a common dermatological condition characterised by the presence of white or yellowish flakes of desquamated stratum corneum on the scalp. It is frequently accompanied by pruritus (itching) and may extend beyond the scalp to affect adjacent areas.

The pathophysiology of dandruff involves a complex interaction between sebaceous gland activity, individual immune response, and the microbiome of the scalp, particularly the overgrowth of the yeast-like fungus Malassezia spp., which is lipophilic and thrives in sebum-rich environments. This fungus is a normal commensal of human skin, but under certain conditions, it can proliferate excessively and disrupt the balance of the skin barrier.

In response to the irritation caused by Malassezia metabolites (e.g., oleic acid), the skin may increase sebum production and accelerate epidermal cell turnover. This leads to the accumulation and rapid shedding of corneocytes, which combine with excess oil and fungal elements to form visible flakes. These components can further irritate the skin, perpetuating a cycle of inflammation and scaling.

Why I love it

  • "The efficacy of Biologique Recherche relies not only on its science-driven approach to balancing and curing the skin, but on its prescriptive and tailored nature."

    X Natalie K-F

    Founder, Embassy of Beauty

  • Biologique Recherche

    Shampooing Sebo-Reequilibrant

    £83

    The Biologique Recherche Shampooing Sebo-Reequilibrant is a scalp-balancing shampoo that gently purifies the hair and scalp while regulating excess sebum, supporting scalp vitality and protecting against environmental stress. Zinc PCA and Sarcosine help control oil production, reduce dandruff-causing imbalances and maintain a cleaner, fresher scalp environment, while Copper PCA supports scalp metabolism and healthy hair follicle function.

    A Colour Protect Complex shields the hair fiber from oxidative stress and environmental pollutants such as UV exposure and chemical aggressors, helping prevent pigment breakdown and colour fading while preserving luminosity.

    Tetraselmis Suecica Microalgae and Yeast Extract provide antioxidant protection, strengthen the scalp’s natural defences and support comfort and resilience, and Glycerin maintains hydration, improves moisture retention and leaves the hair soft, smooth and balanced after cleansing.

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