I was at the doctor’s recently, discussing dry skin and possible stress-induced eczema (don’t worry mom, I’m fine!) and he recommended using Dove as a regular everyday kind of shower soap. Apparently their claims of moisturizing power is not a bogus one. I have switched and have noticed a difference.
Some products are better than others, but it’s hard to know what’s what, especially given the cost of some of these things.
Take shampoo for example. I found myself at the drugstore with four $8.00 bottles of shampoo and conditioner in my basket the other day. Crazy! Who can afford to wash their hair nowadays?
I’ve been up and down the shampoo aisle – organic and non – and always return to Pantene. (No, they’re not paying me to write this. It’s true.) Mark doesn’t seem to care what’s in the shower. He doesn’t have a lot of hair that needs care, but the three of us do. What’s more, our hair is wildly different.
I use Pantene Extra Straight shampoo. It really does work. I don’t have to wrestle with the flattening iron nearly as much. I tried the straightening conditioner that goes with it but for some strange reason it doesn’t leave me with good “day two” hair. (I wash my hair every second day.) Instead I’ve been using Pantene Restoratives Frizz Control conditioner. That seems to work much better for me.
And then there’s Sarah, dear Sarah. You’ve seen how much hair that kid has, right?
She uses Pantene for curly hair. It’s the best I’ve found so far. Trick is to use GOBS of conditioner. Especially the leave-in kind, otherwise we get a lot of frizz. I really need to experiment and find a really good one. We’re still battling the frizzies.
Awhile back Gwen at Nayla Natural Care kindly sent us some TruKid shampoo and conditioner to try. The smell was divine, the packaging fun and kid-friendly. The shampoo got our hair squeaky clean but we all thought the stuff was best suited for people who had considerably less hair than we did, especially as it pertained to the conditioner. (I’m thinking it would be perfect for toddler/baby hair.) Two pumps of shampoo followed by five pumps of conditioner every time we washed our hair meant that we ran out of conditioner pretty fast.
I would love to see someone develop a conditioner bottle that is 20% larger than the matching shampoo. I can’t be the only one who has this problem!
