Mamaearth Onion Shampoo
Riya Desk case studyInfluencer MarketingReal hair, real wash days.

Onion Shampoo.
Wash day, retold.

Bringing Mamaearth’s Onion Hair Fall Control Shampoo into everyday Instagram conversations about hair fall, through creators people already trust.

Mamaearth Onion Hair Fall Control Shampoo bottle beside a halved red onion and folded towels
Client · Product

Mamaearth Onion Hair Fall Control Shampoo

Service

Influencer marketing

Agency

Marqueting Venture

Platform

Instagram Reels & posts

My role

Influencer marketing, campaign team

01 — Challenge

Everyone has a shampoo. Few switch.

Shampoo is one of the most habitual buys there is: people use the same bottle for years. Every brand on the shelf promises less hair fall, and audiences scroll straight past ads that say so.

The job was to make a switch to onion-powered hair care feel worth trying, by letting creators show the shampoo inside the wash-day routines their followers already watch, in their own voice.

02 — Approach

Creator-led, routine-first.

As part of the team at Marqueting Venture, I worked on Mamaearth’s creator-led Instagram campaign for the Onion Hair Fall Control Shampoo, built around three kinds of content, each with a different job.

Reels

Show it in use

Product introductions, wash-day routines and first-hand creator experiences: the lather, the rinse and the result, not the bottle on a pedestal.

Posts

Say it clearly

Product-focused visuals with captions that carried the key messages, from onion and plant keratin as hero ingredients to a sulfate-free wash you can keep, so the story held up even without sound.

Conversation

Keep it going

Comments, saves and shares treated as the real signal, turning creator content into two-way conversation with the audience.

A phone showing a creator lathering shampoo through her hair

Reels: wash day, in a creator’s own words.

Shampoo foam on a wooden tray beside a halved red onion, a bowl of peas and a towel

Posts: one clear message per frame, starring the onion.

03 — Measuring it

What success looked like.

ReachHow many accounts the creator content reached
PlaysReel views, the first sign a story landed
SavesThe strongest signal of intent to try
TalkComments and shares that kept the conversation going

Campaign performance data belongs to the brand and isn’t shown here.

04 — Taking it further · my concept

#GoodnessIn
TheRaw.

If I ran the next chapter, I’d drop the filters entirely. Hair fall takes weeks to judge, so the proof should too: honest, unedited creator experiences of the shampoo, told over four weeks, not one post.

Day 1

First impression

An unfiltered first-wash Reel. Natural light, no edits, the real lather and feel.

No filter, no edit. My first wash with onion shampoo, honestly.
Week 2

In the routine

Everyday posts and Stories showing the shampoo in a real weekly routine, from wash to dry.

Two weeks in. Here’s my wash day, start to finish.
Week 4

The honest follow-up

A follow-up Reel on how hair feels after four weeks, and what didn’t change. Honesty is the point.

Four weeks of onion shampoo: what I noticed, and what I didn’t.

Creator rules

  • No filters, no retouching
  • Natural light only
  • Name one thing you didn’t love
  • Same creator, start to finish

How I’d measure it

  • Reach and Reel plays per phase
  • Saves as intent to try
  • Comment sentiment, not just volume
  • How many viewers return for week 4
05 — What I took away

Trust beats polish.

01

Creators people already trust do more for a hair-care product than any studio shoot.

02

Wash day is a ritual. Showing the shampoo inside it sells the habit, not just the bottle.

03

Saves and comments say more about intent than likes ever will.

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