True+Real Coal Tar Therapeutic Tar Gel Anti-Dandruff Shampoo 1% Coal Tar, 6 Ounce

After T-Gel was discontinued I tried a few other things and nothing worked very well. I found this product and it costing 1/4th of what the price gouging of T-Gel is going for and decided to give it a try. Male, medium length hair. I found that after 5+ weeks of using it, the first few weeks every day to get back to normal and now just every other day or so it works as good as T-Gel or even better. No more buildup, flakes, and itches are minor if at all. I wash and rinse my hair with cool water and then use a cheesy grocery store brand conditioner and all is well. Some of the reviews here complained about the smell - "it smells like someone is tarring a roof". There is a little smell, no worse than T-Gel, and actually maybe not as bad. Once you rinse your hair, the smell goes away. I had the wife unit verify this. After a few days of shampooing with it you don't even notice the smell. I'll take 3 1/2 minutes of smell vs. an itchy scalp any day. As an experiment I have 1/2 bottle of T-Gel left and used it for a few days. Yep, it smells worse. Glad I found this, it fixed an annoying problem.

Excellent. Twice as strong as more.common brand and cost effective

I have a very dry scalp and this is the only shampoo that works for me. I use this shampoo first, let it sit for a minute, and then I use another shampoo as the smell of this one is not great and it is more of a medicated shampoo so I do recommend shampooing twice with another shampoo. I use this once week, wash my hair twice a week on the average.

Works as well as T-Gel in my opinion but I have now gotten two bottles with defective caps. They do not work. They are the type that has the nozzle in the cap and to dispense you push one side of the cap and the dispenser appears but this dispenser does NOT WORK. Twice this happened and I had to use the cap from the previous bottle, having to dig it out of the trash covered with hair and dental floss. Please fix the cap!

This is great for itchy scalps. Works just as good as the named brands.

Definitely helps with dry scalp issues

This stuff STINKS. All Coal Tar Shampoos have some odor, but this gets top price. Your scalp will be clean, but you're gonna smell like a coal mine.

I bought this because for the first time in my life this year, I've had intense burning, itching, and dry scalp. My hair was falling out like crazy. To the point I was vacuuming every day. I had to throw my pj's in the dryer after sleeping all night. Vacuum my side of the bed. I used this with another shampoo and left it on my scalp for 5 minutes before rinsing. It did burn a little but my husband has used it before and said it does burn or tingle the first use. Today I used it again with tea tree oil and peppermint oil. I left it on 5 minutes and rinsed it and it feels so calm on my scalp. No burning no itching no tingling. I feel so relaxed for the first time in months. I'm using this along with the Berk's shampoo that has Rosemary in it with some other ingredients. I will shampoo every day for a week and then every other day. Hopefully then I can shampoo only once a week. I'm hopeful this will work. 2nd use and already feeling better.