The invention discloses attapulgite pearlescent shampoo, which has the technical proposal that the attapulgite pearlescent shampoo is composed of modified pasty attapulgite clay, orange peel, olive oil, glycol distearate, lauryl diethanol amide, cocamidopropyl betaine, citric acid, nipagin methyl ester, nipagine propyl ester and deionized water. The attapulgite pearlescent shampoo has the manufacturing method of purification, sodium modification, acidification, feed proportioning, pulverization and beating, heating, grinding, high-speed stirring, emulsification, vacuum degassing and canning for obtaining the finished product of the attapulgite pearlescent shampoo. The attapulgite pearlescent shampoo is the yellowish nontransparent emulsion shampoo, has obvious pearlescent color and more strong pearlescent sense during vibration, and has the characteristics of no break of milk, no separation, invariant color and no disappearance of the pearlescent color. The attapulgite pearlescent shampoo is suitable for hairdressing and nursing.