Kids Shampoo Rinse Cup SRC44

 (18 customer reviews)

This looked like a great buy in the store.

It looks like it would make sense:
Fill it with water
Press it against your child's forehead, creating a seal
Water will come out and not go into your childs face and eyes.

Tried it with my 3 year old and immediately saw it was not so simple.

First of all, because my son is markedly and understandably afraid of water going into his eyes and on his face, HE DOES NOT WANT TO WASH HIS HAIR. This means that he doesnt really care that I have a new tool to wash his hair. It means he is scared and will push away when I try to wash his hair. (Im sure I did the same at his age).

So FIRST PROBLEM: Your child has to be looking up, head back for this to work. If they dont look up/ head back, this is pretty much useless. As my son is hiding his head from me and naturally looking down at the water and his toys, "look up, head back so I can wash your hair" is not sufficient encouragement...Read more

This product is poorly designed. There's a rubber insert on the flat side which you're supposed to press against your child's head to make a seal so the water only flows back from that point. Two problems: first, the rubber is so rigid you can't get a good seal without pressing REALLY hard. The second, and biggest, problem is that the rubber insert doesn't go all the way to the edges of the cup. There is a space of about 3mm at each side where the water just gushes out. Because of where you'd have the cup positioned on your child's head, this means the water goes in their ears, down both sides of their face and even some into the eyes. Since it's water in the eyes which really freaks my kid out, it's useless to us.

She does enjoy stuffing her other bath toys in it though so we have got some use out of it.

This product works pretty well, but the yellow rubber part has grown mold on it somehow. Yuck.