Confession time! My
hair is ‘dirty’ 50% of the time. I do
not have time to wash and style my hair every single day. I’ve been thanking my lucky stars for the
invention of dry shampoo. It’s a real
life saver. I decided to try it just a
mere few years ago and have been a dry shampoo addict ever since. It’s way healthier for your hair too,
shampooing all the time can really dry it out. I'm lucky in that I have fairly normal hair, not too oily, not too dry so I am an especially good candidate for dry shampoo. Some days, after I wash my hair I will even purposely add dry shampoo into my
freshly clean roots as dry shampoo is a great texturizer and will help give your
roots a little oomph! I’ve tried
multiple brands and lately found one that I’m just head over heels in love with
so thought this is the perfect opportunity to share and give a review on what
I’ve tried, what I like and what I don’t, and these are my un-biased
opinions only, unfortunately I'm not getting paid for these opinions so you get them for free. You're welcome.
Let’s just start with my FAVORITE! LUSH No Drought Dry Shampoo. Love, love,
love this stuff!
So who has been in a
LUSH store? I have to admit that I’d
walk by these in big cities and thought looks like a just another cool soap
store {as I continued to walk by}. We
recently got one in Des Moines and again, it’s always looked intriguing to me
but not intriguing enough to get me thru the doors. Until I started to Google dry shampoo reviews
and read about LUSH’s. As soon as I
walked into LUSH, I realized right away what all the hype was about. All their products are handmade, and the picture of the person who made your product is right on your product as well as the date
it was made. All of their products are
made from the freshest and purest ingredients, no harsh chemicals here (and p.s.... to my surprise it's not just a soap store, lots of awesome cosmetics to be had). Price points in the store are good too for
what you get, No Drought runs about $14 for the large bottle and $7 for the
small. I must say, I bought the small
bottle and glad I did, a little bit goes a long ways and since it is made with
fresh ingredients with no preservatives, there is an 6 month expiration date on
the product so I suggest to start small and decide if you need a larger
bottle or not. Plus it’s a great size
for travel. I really love its lemony-lime
scent which smells fresh and clean. The
main ingredient is corn flour, which is naturally super absorbent.
The product is not as easy to apply as the other dry
shampoos I've tried, mainly because its a dry powder. I don’t suggest shaking onto your hands and
then applying but rather shake directly onto your roots and into a
paddle/bristle hair brush and then literally scrub it into your scalp with the
brush. It will help invigorate your
roots to give you volume and to make sure the product is all absorbed into your
hair. The product is clean feeling but
may feel a tid grittier than some of the other products I’ll be reviewing
next. I actually like the little grit it
gives; it just helps add clean texture to my roots. Overall, I can’t say enough good things about
this dry shampoo, it really makes my hair look just as clean {some days even
better than freshly clean} than any other dry shampoo I’ve tried. I can’t wait to try more of LUSH’s products!
My next favorite dry shampoo is Not Your Mother’s Clean Freak Refreshing Dry Shampoo.
This shampoo gets high marks on Google
reviews as well and it’s more common to find in retail stores. I picked mine up at Target and for an
affordable $5, you get a huge bottle!
This stuff works pretty good, I love the aerosol can for fast
application and it absorbs easily. It
also does not leave any gritty feeling like most all dry shampoos do. For $5, it’s a win. A few drawbacks, it doesn’t have a really
nice smell, in fact it doesn’t have much of a smell at all. I prefer that clean smell in my hair. And lastly, the ingredients on the back – I’m
not a major organic freak but since having a child, I have paid more and more attention
to what I’m buying and putting in and on my body and with this product I don’t
even know what the active ingredient really is.
It’s reads like a foreign novel, as well as in big letters: FLAMMABLE on
the back. Well that’s because it’s an
aerosol can but either way, not so comforting.
My very first ever dry shampoo was Suave Refresh and Revive, mainly because I just wanted to try
something on the cheap. And by on the
cheap, I mean $3. For $3, this stuff is
amazing and has gotten high reviews on Google.
Who would have thought, right?!
I remember using Suave as a kid and when I became an adult I swore it
off like the plague. Well folks, the tables have turned and Suave has made
a great dry shampoo that I like to stash in my gym bag. The best part is the smell, it has probably
the best smell of all of them I’ve tried.
It works pretty much just as well as the Not Your Mother’s Clean Freak
but more grittier feeling and takes a little more work to
absorb in. If you are looking for a dry
shampoo to just start out with, this is the one I would suggest. It’s cheap so if you don’t like it, then you
can part ways with it.
The last dry shampoo review is a total bust. I love Redken products and have been using
them for years. I have a cabinet full of
Redken and some of my favorite shampoos/conditioners are Redkens.
But I must say their Pillow Proof Dry Shampoo is a flop.
Same crappy foreign ingredients, the smell is not fresh at all. It absorbs some oil but does the least for my
hair. Sadly, I cannot recommend this
one, hence no hyperlink for this product. And it's the most expensive one, $18 bucks for this can of crap. And I'm the type that can't throw anything unused away. So now I'm left with it. It's currently a fine flammable dust collector on my shelf.
I cannot give Batiste a full review but it’s Google’s number 1 rated dry shampoo on many sites.
I have tried it in-store (I’m totally guilty
of this! I try products in store before deciding
if I want to buy them. HELLO dry shampoo
spraying in the aisles! Heck I even try the grapes in the produce department
before I will buy them, I’ve bought my fair share of rotten products in my
lifetime!) so when I tried it in-store I didn’t think it was anything special personally. I think it gets most raves from brunnettes, they
make one specific for brunettes because dry shampoo does have a tendency to
spray in whitish in color and it needs to be brushed in good to eliminate any
powdery look. I never have this problem being
a dark blonde and actually find that the dry shampoos usually hides the
outgrowth of my highlights really well.
But if you have dark hair, Batiste might be right for you! The one pictured above is not specific for brunettes, this is the one I tried in-store that I can attest was not that special in my opinion. Wasn't bad but wasn't special enough to make it in my cart.
** I want to put a disclaimer out there: just because I don’t wash my hair every day,
I usually do shower every day. Key word
being ‘usually’ as today in example I have yet to and may choose not to. There is no excuse to be the stinky kid, I DO
practice good hygiene while being a dry shampoo advocate!
