I’ve never tried Tresseme’ products. Their ads say they’re like professional stuff. Do you get that “just got home from the salon” feeling?
I’ve tried a couple of them, and been unimpressed. My hair is curly though, and I don’t remember them having anything specifically for curly hair.
Of course, I find all that “salon quality” crap to be exactly that. Crap. I get the best results with Pantene, and I don’t really care how much my hairdresser rolls her eyes or squeals in horror when I say so, because my hair is happy, healthy, and fabulous.
Heh. My hairdresser specifically recommended Pantene for my hair (which is wavy to curly, depending on the humidity), although I have to say that CVS’s Pantene-like products work pretty well, too.
As to Tresemmé, I like how the hair spray holds without making my hair hurricane-proof to the touch, but I can’t remember when I used anything else of theirs.
Same here. I’ve used Pert Plus for years and it’s perfect for my curls. Given that hairdressers are always complimenting me on how thick and healthy my hair is, they can’t say much when I tell them I use Pert Plus. I have used some Pantene things with success but overall, the best result for me is due to good ol’ Pert Plus.
I use an all-natural haircare routine these days, but before I went all crunchy-granola on my head the best shampoo and conditioner I ever used was Avon’s Advanced Techniques line. It smelled divine and worked better than almost anything I’d tried before, and by that time I’d tried everything on the store shelves (including Tresseme - wasn’t impressed). Plus it’s a lot cheaper than comparable store brands.
Something I’ve always wondered…what do different shampoo/conditioners do anyway?
I mean, it’s obvious that people prefer certain brands for one reason or another, but I’ve never been able to figure out what those reasons are…
I’ve never been a fan of Tressme. At first I thought it rocked, but over the long haul, my curly locks really didn’t like it. My hair became fuzzy and only manageable with a curling iron.
I’m using Pantene now with moderately better results.
I had forgotten but I also used Pert Plus for years with good results. My hairdresser also commented on how lucky I was to have such healthy hair. When I told him I was using Pert Plus, he compared it to floor wax stipper. <sigh>
As to why we use different products, you can thank Madison Avenue. We believe that the next bext product will give us that slow-mo hair we all see on the commercials.
I have very thin curly hair (thin when straightened, looks lik a mop when it’s curly) and the best stuff I’ve used so far has been Ouidad. The shampoo washes out of my hair without it feeling dry and brittle, but doesn’t leave a residue on it either. The deep treatment leaves my hair bouncy and much curlier than before.
I’ve heard that the reason Pantene works so well for people is that it leaves a silicon residue on your hair, definitely makes it thicker and shiny, but also suffocates the cuticle of the hair. I’ve found that it works well for a little while, but starts to make my hair feel heavy and stick to my scalp like I haven’t washed it for a couple days.
So I guess the best advice is to just try each kind on its own, keep a record in a notebook of how you felt your hair was doing; moisturized, dry, healthy, brittle, etc. It’s easy to notice a huge difference between two types of products right at the beginning but there might not be that much difference in the long run.
-foxy
It’s all the same crap. Just different combinations of scents and emulsifiers.
The salon crap is exactly the same as the dollar-store crap, except in price.
Tresemme gave me terrible dandruff. I have pretty low-maintenance hair but the shampoo made it feel dry and coarse. I put up with it for about a week before throwing the bottles out and buying some medicated dandruff shampoo.
That stuff is noxious. Keep it away from your hair.
Paula Begoun has several books that explain the different ingredients in shampoos and other toiletries, what to look for, and a review of 100s of different brands. Her website has a lot of reviews for free as well.
Her books are very easy to read and accessible to a non-chemist. Someone gave me a few when I was a teenager (she also has one on how to buy apply makeup) and it really helped me figure the whole makeup thing out.
Great suggestion! Back in the days when I wore makeup, Paula Begoun’s book Don’t Go to the Makeup Counter without Me probably saved me thousands of dollars.
I just bought a tube of Tresseme straightening gel. It seems to do its job (keeping my ridiculous hair straight) reasonably well.
I’m curious about this, because I recall a story told by someone I used to work with; she said that a FOAF knew a hairdresser who strenuously discouraged customers from using [some brand or other of shampoo], because they came into the salon one day and noticed a bottle that had fallen over, and where the contents had spilled out, it had eaten right through the linoleum overnight. I’m wondering if there’s an Urban Legend in circulation here that isn’t listed on Snopes.
To the best of my understanding, the cuticle - and hair itself - doesn’t need to breathe. Hair, barring the root buried in your scalp, is dead.
Many conditioners, and some shampoos (especially two-in-one) have silicone as an ingredient.
Sure, but you could still damage it by removing bits, or encrusting it with stuff that’s difficult to remove without damaging (although none of this qualifies as ‘suffocating’ in my dictionary).
Isn’t it true that “Actually repairs damaged sections of hair” is one of the most-repeated, yet unbelievable claims made by haircare product manufacturers?
-It’s right up there with the claim (made by nearly all air freshener commercials) that their product isn’t like all the others that just cover up the smell; their product actually seeks out and destroys the odour molecules.
Pantene is definitely “heavy”, and if you have thick curly hair that tends toward frizz, it’s going to work like a dream for you, precisely *because * it weighs it down a bit.
If your hair is thin, it’s not for you, or at least the one for curly hair isn’t for you. Some of the others might work, but I can’t vouch for them.
Mangetout, I defintely call bullshit. First of all, anything that can eat through linoleum overnight is likely to sting the scalp a bit, no? Secondly, I assure you that if the salon owner came in and found one of her $20 bottles of shampoo was caustic, she’d just tell her employees to push it by recommending it to remove product buildup!
Well, it depends… Traditional linoleum is made from compressed sawdust and oil - and it’s still available - shampoo would eat through that alright, but I don’t think anyone would use traditional lino as flooring in a hair salon, especially when modern synthetic flooring is cheaper and more durable.
As I understand it, silicone coats the hair and seals split ends, making your hair all shiny and stuff. But in the long run your hair will end up dry, damaged, and staticky, because once the hair shaft is sealed shut with silicone residue, moisture can no longer penetrate to the cortex. Your hair doesn’t need to “breathe”, but it does need moisture. A clarifying shampoo every now and then will get rid of the silicone build-up and give your hot oil treatments or whatever a chance to do their thing.
I haven’t found a shampoo and conditioner yet that does anything other than clean my hair and make it marginally easier to comb. I’ve used cheap stuff, expensive stuff, and midrange stuff, and it’s all the same. I’ve been using Tresseme, and it’s fine. No better or worse than anything else, and it’s cheap.