What Comes To Mind? Straw! Scarecrows! Crisposity!: Clairol Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo
Written: Jul 25 '06
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Pros: It smells wonderful; nice lather
Cons: Made my hair unbelievably dry; tons of tangles when not used with conditioner
The Bottom Line: Avoid this parching, drying, full-of-sulfates stuff.
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| moonsista's Full Review: Clairol Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo |
Why do I feel compelled to use the free samples I get in the mail? And why do I feel compelled to believe these products' claims? I got cute, generously-sized bottles of Clairol Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo in the mail. Enough for more than a week's worth of hair washing, in fact. It smelled good, and it is the year 2006...so maybe - just maybe - a drugstore brand can get hair hydration right. Right? Um...yeah. Right. *cough*
Note: Crisposity is a word I just made up. This drying shampoo deserves its own word.
Product Details:
Clairol Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo is a new shampoo from Clairol. Clairol revamped the Herbal Essences line from the boring clear bottles with the dark green caps and the commercials with the woman moaning with great pleasure in the shower (come on..you were jealous, weren't you?) and replaced it with a brightly-colored line of products for specific hair needs. Hello Hydration is for dry hair in need of moisture.
This product comes in a tall-ish, turquoise-colored, curved plastic bottle.
This is what Clairol has to say about this product at HerbalEssences.com: repeat after me: I'm so quenched. it's time to take every strand of dry hair off dry land. replenish your pretty, parched head with my moisturizing shampoo fused with essential moisturizers and orchid & coconut milk. it leaves hair silky and supple. want more moisture where I come from? seek my happily hydrated conditioner.
The Hello Hydration line also contains a Conditioner and a 2-in-1 Shampoo and Conditioner.
Ingredients (taken from packaging):
Water, ammonium lauryl sulfate, ammonium laureth sulfate, sodium chloride, cocamide MEA, glycol distearate, dimethicone, ammonium xylenesulfonate, vanilla extract, coconut milk, fragrance, cetyl alcohol, polyquaternium-10, sodium citrate, sodium benzoate, disodium EDTA, PEG 7M, citric acid, propylene glycol, methylchloroisothiazolinone, methylisothiazolinone, blue 1.
My Experience:
I had seen the many ads in magazines, in drugstore circulars and on the internet for the new line of Clairol Herbal Essences shampoos, conditioners and styling products. They seem to me to be geared toward teens and young women. At least I think this is the case because the shampoos and conditioners are tinted in colors like blue and peach and they have cute names like Hello Hydration and None of Your Frizzness. (Note to Redken...please do not jump on the cute-wagon.)
The scent of Clairol Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo is delicious. It has a scent that I think is foody, tropical and floral all at the same time. It smells absolutely divine.
The look of this shampoo, as I mentioned earlier, is blue. It's a thick, pearly shampoo and is tinted pale blue.
Once I get a good-sized dollop of this shampoo out of the bottle (my little sample bottle isn't as easy to use as I think a full-size bottle is), I apply it to my wet hair and lather up. The orchid and coconut milk scent fills up my entire shower, which is nice. This shampoo lathers up nicely and I get a ton of lather.
I didn't encounter any problems with rinsing Clairol Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo out of my hair. It seemed to rinse out cleanly and easily. After rinsing, I could still smell the orchid and coconut milk scent.
Since I also received a sample of the Hello Hydration Conditioner, I followed up with that (review is in the works) so that I could use both of these products as I'm sure Clairol would like us all to use them.
Once I towel-dried my hair and started to comb through it, I didn't have any problems when I used this product with the matching Hello Hydration Conditioner. But just TRY to use it without a conditioner of any sort. In a nutshell, you'll look like Medusa - but instead of tangled snakes for hair, you will have tangled straw for hair. Yeah..just like a scarecrow.
Blow-drying my hair went as it always did. However, my hair seemed to be less manageable than normal and I immediately noticed how dry it was. Ugh. I don't know that I noticed the first time I used this, but by the second time, the third time, and the fourth time, my hair was dry. Parched. Thirsty. Crispy. Sad.
(Side note: Don't think that my hair is comprised of gorgeous, silky locks. In fact, without a higher-end, moisturizing shampoo, my hair is quite dry. My hair is naturally wavy to curly and is color-treated.)
Once my hair was styled and I was going about my day, if I would touch my hair for any reason, it felt weird..like it was crispy. Oh yeah...this is how my hair felt when I used drugstore brands back in the day! My hair was dry, somewhat unmanageable and was never soft. This is exactly how Clairol Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo made my hair.
The orchid and coconut milk lasted on my hair for an hour or so after blow-drying and styling. I use a few different products on my hair, so the scent of those products definitely affect the lasting power of the scent of this shampoo. If I didn't use any styling products or hair spray, the orchid and coconut milk scent would probably last for several hours.
Needless to say, I will not purchase the full-size product. In fact, it will be a long time before I use another drugstore brand. I'm back to my The Body Shop and Redken shampoos and conditioners!
Price and Purchasing Information:
The price of a bottle of Clairol Herbal Essences Hello Hydration Shampoo is about $3 to $3.50 normally. Right now, because the product is still new, you can find it for about $2.50. It can be purchased at most drugstores and mass merchants.
Recommended:
No
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