RESPECT! (Dove Respect & Balance Conditioner)

Member Name: madmum71

Product:	Dove Respect & Balance Conditioner
Date:	06/07/07 (68 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A milky conditoner

Disadvantages: The scent is to strong

This is another one of those products that was gathering dust on my bathroom shelf and was told to use by the other half because he was running out of room for all his manly toiletries, you know the ones that look like women’s ones but the packaging is blue! (And he calls me gullible!)
I had actually received this product for free a while ago to test and give my opinion and to be honest I only used it a couple of times and then it was left to gather dust because I think I found something more shiny to play with! (Yes I am easily distracted!) As I had run out of my favourite conditioner I decided to go back to this one and actually finish the bottle.

PRODUCT HISTORY

Dove is a Unilever product and was first launched in America in the 1950’s it started with the cleansing bar that was actually developed to treat burn victims during the war. It wasn’t released as a beauty bar until 1957 when it was reformulated and renamed the “Original Dove Beauty bar”. This soap was aimed at people for dry and sensitive skin, and in 1970 was tested by dermatologists which proved it was milder than 17 of the leading soaps at the time.
Dove came to the UK 12 years ago and became famous for its bath time products and body washes. In 2000 dove started branching out into to deodorants, hair care and body moisturisers, in 2004 came the firming range (and not a moment to soon for me anyway!) Dove is now running the campaign for real beauty, let’s be honest you must have been living on the moon if you haven’t seen the adverts basically they are using real women of all shapes and sizes for their advertising instead of stick thin models.

PACKAGING

This is sort of shaped like a teardrop and is the usual Dove colours of white with blue writing and the familiar Dove logo in gold. It states that it is for normal hair and frequent use, it also has the usual flip top lid that you stand the product up on and always gets a bit messy.

PRODUCT STATEMENT

Pamper your hair with the light, milky texture of Dove respect & balance conditioner. Containing moisturising ingredients that gently condition your hair, it respects your natural moisture balance without weighing it down. Your hair is full of life, easy to comb and beautifully soft. Make bad hair days a thing of the past!

USING

Now I am starting to remember why I only used this a couple of times and believe it or not it’s because of the smell! I started using it around the start of the hay fever season when my nose is exceptionally sensitive to strong fragrances and this really does tickle your smelling senses! It does smell like the older Dove products but a lot stronger and it really seemed to make me sneeze.

The conditioner itself is not very thick and more like a lotion than a cream and is pure white in colour it does feel quite milky and soft. Applying is easy enough but be careful that you don’t put too much at a time as it can just slide off the head and will make your hair feel very greasy. It’s the same to use as most conditioners you just work into the hair and then rinse off, when this was on my hair it did feel quite moisturising but my hair also felt a little bit slimy.

Rinsing was easy enough all though at times I did feel that I had to rinse a bit more as I didn’t feel I had got it all out. The best bit I must say was brushing it really did make the hair soft and my brush didn’t encounter any knots, as I have shoulder length hair knots can sometimes cause me grief but I have to say that this conditioner did make short work of them. After drying I was pleased with the over condition of my hair it did have a bit of a shine and wasn’t fly away and the scent seemed to last for a while but I must admit I did feel the overall product was missing something it just seemed a bit bland and forgettable really except for the smell!

There is quite a long list of ingredients with long names that I couldn’t even say let alone spell! Also the writing is so tiny I would need a microscope to read them

As I got this as a freebie I had to look the price up and it seems to be around £1.95 for a 200ml bottle depending on where you shop. Also a lot of shops have special offers on Dove products all the time.

So would I buy this again?

To be honest no, I mean it is a nice milky conditioner but I still find the scent a bit overpowering and I have used other conditioners that deliver better results all over but at least that’s one bottle less on the shelf!

Property of madmum71 & lisa8871

Summary: A milky strong smelling conditoner