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A very belated reader request, Britny asked me to look at some dry shampoos for her a while back. See, I never forget…it just might take a while!
Dry shampoo is a weird one. I’ve never tried it but my colleague and good friend Annika
agreed to do the deed, flying the flag for all Things Nice!
Admittedly, I’d never thought of dry shampoo as being all that nice. The only times I’d really heard of it being used was in hospitals when patients can’t always wash their hair. But, undaunted, I armed Anni with two cans of the stuff, and off she went. Here’s Anni at Mission #1, the festival. Doing well not to pay attention to the half naked hunk behind her. Well done, Anni!
First up, Batiste Original Dry Shampoo. It promises to to “refresh hair between washes….revitalise greasy, dull and lifeless hair…leaving it clean, full of body, and smelling beautiful”. This can is pretty big – 150ml, and retails in supermarkets and chemists for under £2.00. On to the review!
Being a festival lover and a girl that likes to look good at the same time, and not to mention smell fresh, dry shampoo was a definite life saver for me. How could I possibly go through a whole weekend of slumming it in a tent in a muddy field along with millions of other smelly ravers without having the facilities to was my hair?!
Looking at the can I thought it was a cheap joke – Dry Shampoo, how can you get dry shampoo? I had visions of spraying it on my hair and my head turning into a frothy mess. It didn’t take long for me to get addicted to though, a couple of quick sprays to my hair along with a quick brush is all that it took to make my hair smell and feel like it had been washed. Don’t get me wrong it didn’t feel like I’d just been standing in a nice hot shower with the fresh smell of Herbal Essences but it did take the greasy feeling away and I felt a lot more respectable than Dave who was a stinky mess standing next to me.
Having blonde hair, the powdery texture did not show in my hair, but my brunette friend tried it and she automatically turned into a 90 year old granny! – her hair turned grey but then we brushed it and it went away. I’m guessing the powdery texture soaks up all the grease.
Dry Shampoo is something every woman with a hectic lifestyle should try especially when you go to a place where there are no home luxuries, it’s quick, easy and there is no mess. I paid around £2.00 for the can in Asda and there is enough in the can to last you a month if you were to use it regularly.
And on to challenge number two, Phil Smith Dry Clean Shampoo. At 75ml, this is half the size of the Batiste, and a third more expensive, at £2.99 in Boots. This promises to simply “revitalise your hair between washes”. Phil must be a man of few words. Rightly so really, as the can is tiny! Anni – over to you…
with some new friends she met at the festival. I’m sure they were both attracted to her non-greasy, fresh smelling and revitalised hair.
I found the Batiste shampoos annoyingly over-perfumed, which might have been better if I liked the scents in question. My current can of dry shampoo is Klorane – the packaging is largely in French but I can see that it claims to be extra-mild and contain oat milk. I got it in Boots and remember being less than thrilled at the price but happy to try a non-Batiste dry shampoo. It does the job in terms of de-greasing my hair and making it look a bit less lank, and it smells inoffensive. I’ve used it a fair bit in the last few months as my hair becomes an uncontrolable mess if I wash it properly too often. Dry shampoo is good because it reduces the mingingness of unwashed hair and adds a day or two onto the time I can go without the rigmarole of water, just enough shampoo and half a bottle of conditioner! The next on my list to try is James Brown (also from Boots), just because I liked the smell when someone else used it near me.
Yay thanks Helen and Anni. As the husky racing season is about to start and going to involve overnight stays with no showers (yuk an awful idea for a high maintenance lady like me). Will give the Batiste one a go. Thanks although I am still not relishing the idea of a couple of days without washing my hair.
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