I liked this product at first but just changed my rating and am editing my review. It leaves my hair feeling clean and soft but my hair is dull and doesn't hold a curl long. Also, I am not sure it's worth the extra cost.
I am African American and have dry hair with super tight curls. Normally, I use Garnier's Fructis shampoo and conditioner for dry hair or Chi's Intense shampoo and conditioner, put AG's Set It Straight lotion on my hair and blow dry then flat iron it. I've been happy with that regimen but wanted to try products that were more "natural" and didn't strip my hair of oil. My mother raves about Wen products but I didn't want to spend $30 a bottle for it so I searched around, read the reviews, and settled on Lisa Rachel's formula for damaged hair.
I followed the instructions to the letter and found that it worked well for cleaning. I could feel a nice cooling sensation on my scalp when I let it sit for about 5 minutes and found that the product smelled a bit like menthol or something similar. Fortunately the smell, which was light, completely went away when I rinsed my hair. I didn't mind that this product did not lather because I knew from the description and reviews that it would not. Also, my hair felt surprisingly clean when I was done.
The problem is with the conditioning aspect of the Lisa Rachel product. I did not add any of my normal conditioner so I could see how it worked. Other than that, I did follow my normal routine and my hair turned out to be very soft and held its shape once flat-ironed and styled. But it only held its shape for about two hours. After that, it became "poofy" and did not at all look like I had spent tons of time doing it.
I gave this product only 3 stars for a few reasons: 1) Though my hair was soft, it wasn't as shiny as I had hoped. When I use the Garnier or Chi shampoo and conditioner (that I get at about half the price at TJ Maxx), my hair is super shiny without my having to add a bunch of extra stuff. This time, my hair was dull. 2) The directions on the bottle say that the more you use the better the product works. Hmm just seems like a way to get you to use up the bottle faster so you can buy more. 3) Even with this product being a shampoo and conditioner in one, it's still much more expensive than the Garnier products I normally use and the results aren't any better. This Lisa Rachel product for damaged hair runs about $1.25 an ounce versus the $0.25 an ounce I pay for Garnier shampoo and conditioner combined (I buy them in bulk at BJ's).
So overall I wouldn't recommend it. I love the fact that the ingredients are much more "natural" than the ones in the shampoo and conditioner I normally use and it doesn't have any sulfates. On the other hand, it's about 5 times more expensive as the products I normally use and my hair looks worse. So, for me, the natural aspects don't outweigh the negatives.Where to start... The first thing I noticed about this was how my hair was not already drying in the towel. Normally before I would take it out of the towel it would already be 1/4 of the way dry and I would have to wet it with a spray bottle before I could do anything else but with the Lisa Rachel my hair was still wet all the way through on the very first washing. As I was washing my hair I noticed I had a tingling feeling on my scalp (it was very nice) and as I was rinsing it came out very well. The way I do it is...
bend over in the shower so my hair is all in front of me... wet my hair thoroughly... use 10 pumps on the hair in front of me and work it through really, really good... use 10 pumps at the top and back of my hair and work that through... then I use 5 pumps on the sides of my head and you guessed it, work that through... then I work with it all and leave it in until I am almost done with my shower then rinse... Once I am out of the shower a I towel dry my hair some and them put 1 more pump in and work that through and I am done. I let my hair air dry and it comes out really, really nice.
Now I am getting ready to order the one for dry hair so I can switch in between them. Can't wait until the other comes in. The more I have been using this the better my hair has been getting. I now wash my hair every 3 days instead of every day or every other day. I've only had this for two weeks approx. and I absolutely love this stuff!! Before I used this my hair use to look extremely brittle on the ends, I always had to pull it up because it just looked terrible being down and when I would move my head my hair moved like it was all fused together. I looked like a puff ball. Now my hair lies down nice and when I pull it up for work the pony tail even moves freely and the brittle look is gone. This is really some great stuff!!


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