An expensive meal for your hair (Aveda Rosemary Mint Shampoo)

Member Name: charby

Product:	Aveda Rosemary Mint Shampoo
Date:	18/01/09 (232 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Smells fantastic, works well

Disadvantages: Very expensive for a shampoo

For my 19th birthday, my parents took me and my boyfriend down to London to see Eddie Izzard. It was a great couple of days, and after the show itself, my favourite thing about the trip was the hotel that we stayed in. My parents managed to find a good deal for us to stay in Hazlitts in Soho, which was a gorgeous building and posh in a comfortable way. The rooms were beautiful, especially the en suite bathrooms, which were gorgeous with massive and very deep baths. Having a hot relaxing bath in there on the morning of my birthday was fantastic, largely down to the size of the bath and niceness of the room, but also because of the free shampoo provided by the hotel.

I had never tried or even heard of Aveda Rosemary and Mint Shampoo before I received a small sample in my hotel room, but one smell of it was enough to convince me to give it a go, as it smelt amazing. To be honest, though, I probably would have tried it anyway, unless it smelt disgusting, as it was free and I hadn't brought any shampoo with me. Anyway, I took the shampoo into the bath with me to wash my hair.

The first thing that I noticed when I massaged some of the shampoo into my wet hair was the amazing smell. Often with shampoos and other bath products which have two flavours in, one tends to overpower the other, but fortunately there wasn't this problem with the Aveda Rosemary and Mint shampoo. I could smell both the rosemary and the mint equally, and the scent was absolutely fantastic, and was strong without being over the top. If I hadn't known that it was a shampoo that I was smelling, I would have thought that somebody was cooking something fantastic in the next room. I have used this shampoo several times since (I wasn't going to just leave the sample in the hotel after using it), and I feel the same way about the smell every time, though it is starting to make me feel hungry.

Of course, smell means nothing if the product doesn't do its job, but fortunately, this shampoo does a great job of cleaning your hair as well. I have used this several times over the past few months, and have found that my hair stays clean as long after washing as when I use my other shampoos, if not longer. The consistency of the shampoo is quite thick, which means that not too much is needed to clean even long hair, which is another bonus.

There is, however, one problem with this shampoo: the price. At £9.50 for a 300ml bottle, you either have to be rich or absolutely adore it to be able to justify buying a bottle of this. Of course, since you don't need very much each time to get nice clean hair, a 300ml bottle of this will last you for quite a long time, so the cost is fairly low if you work out how much it costs you per wash. When I compare it to my usual shampoo, however, the price looks ridiculously high: 56p for 750ml of Asda apple shampoo is only 7.5p per 100ml, which means that at £3.50 per 100ml, Aveda Rosemary and Mint Shampoo is almost 50 times as expensive per millilitre as my normal shampoo. Wow. That is, of course, an extreme example, as Asda apple shampoo is ridiculously cheap, though £9.50 is still a lot to spend on 300ml of shampoo.

So, in conclusion, I love this shampoo as it smells amazing and does a good job of cleaning my hair. I will definitely keep using my sample bottle until it runs out, but after that, I'm not sure if I'll buy it again any time soon. If it was a bit cheaper, I definitely would, but as I'm on a student budget, I can't really afford to spend that amount on shampoo when I could spend 56p on something almost as good. I would still recommend it to anyone who can afford it, as it smells fantastic, but it is definitely a luxury product.

Summary: A delicious scented shampoo from Aveda