Gunk for Gurls- Fructis Intense Anti-Split Ends (Fructis (Laboratoire Garnier) in General)

Member Name: angiepanj

Product:	Fructis (Laboratoire Garnier) in General
Date:	24/11/03 (70 review reads)
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Advantages: does what its supposed to without making you look like you've dipped your head in chip fat, conditions your hand and your hair!, one bottle lasts for ages

Disadvantages: strange packaging, pump bottle so you cant get the last bit out of the bottom (when you eventually manage to empty it)

This bottle looks like a light bulb. Or maybe an onion. It's definately a peculiar shape anyway. It's plastic, and the eye-damaging bright green colour that Fructis tends to have on its packaging, with an equally bright orange stripe across the middle. Nice. I haven't even got past to the packaging yet and already I want to make the company compensate me for eye damage, or at least buy me sunglasses.

The bottle holds 150 mls of the aforementioned hair gunk. I actually got this for Christmas last year, and despite a years worth of on and off use, there is still half a bottle left, and that's not because I find the packaging offensive, it does seem to be one of those bottomless vessels you find in fairy tales. The kind that never runs out of whatever you put into it.

I suffer (or should I say share my head with) incredibly frizzy hair. Most of the time this doesn't bother me, I do my thing, and my hair does its own, and we get along quite amicably with a minimum of interference, but once a week or so I get all paranoid and decide to try to calm it down a little. It generally takes this in its stride, goes all shiny for about ten minutes and then when I've been suitably lulled into a sense of false security, gets really big instead. This stuff however does the trick with a minimum of fuss, and although I do have to use quite a lot of it to do the job, seems to have lasted exceptionally well.

You can use this on either wet or dry hair. The bottle gives instruction for you to use 1-3 nut sized amounts. This is plently. The gunk is white and makes your hands feel well conditioned too when you've finished rubbing it on your hair. It has a pleasant light fragrance, not too strong or chemical. It doesn't exactly smell fruity, but it does kind of smell edible. It spreads easily and evenly through your hair, and whilst it doesn't stick my split ends together, it does make them a lot less noticable, and my hair a
lot more controllable too. It's meant to protect against split ends, but as I have them already I'm not really in a position to comment on this, although it does make my hair feel really well conditioned. Even if I use quite a lot of it (as I often do), it doesn't flatten my hair too much, or make it look greasy, nlike some other leave-in conditioner products. It stops it from being too fly-away and makes it generally easier to get a brush through. You do end up with a greasier scalp than usual though, so I would recommend washing your hair once a day if you use this regularly. It says on the bottle 'This smoothing cream with Nourishing Fruit Micro-oils, nourishes and smooths right to the tips, to protect fragile ends without heaviness' and it does!

I didn't buy it myself, but judging from the fact that one 150ml bottle has lasted me for nearly a year, I would call it great value for money. You don't really need to shove on as much as I tend to either, so its really a long lasting product which I would highly recommend. Even if the bottle is a bit loud.

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