John Frieda Frizz Ease Wind-Down Relaxing Creme

As is the case with most of my better discoveries, I cam across this product quite by accident. I had about 3 hours to buy everything I would need for the next year and a half (working on the, quite correct, assumption, that Menorcan and German shops might not quite live up to the standards of Mancunian ones) and after checking my list, I saw I had all bar one of the items on it. The missing link? Frizz Ease. Quick dives into first Superdrug and then Boots left me empty handed. A recent re-branding, re-naming and re-packaging frenzy in the John Frieda offices meant I had a choice of a dozen or so products, but none the one I was used to. Oh my golly gosh, I was ...

Frizz Ease Wind-Down relaxing creme is a temporary relaxer that you can use in two ways. You can either use it to straighten out your hair, or to create softer, frizz-free curls or waves. The relaxing creme comes in a 100ml see-through plastic container, which has a pump dispenser. Although the packaging is basic, it is very practical, and I like the fact that you are able to see exactly how much product you have left. The creme is white and has what I can only describe as a chemical smell to it. You apply 1-2 pumps of the creme to damp hair, and work it through from roots to ends. You then comb your hair to make sure the product is distributed ...

The jury is still out on this one for me, as there are definite plus points, but also several minuses too....I'll explain. This stuff comes in a pump action bottle, and is very clean to dispense, and doesn't particularly have a massively attractive smell, although it's not horrible. If it smelly gorgeous I might prefer it, who knows. You apply it to damp (not wet hair), it specifies that on the bottle, and rub in 1-2 blobs before you blow dry it straight, well that's the idea. So I followed the instructions one day, and although my hair's only really curly at the bottom of the hair shaft, I covered my head in product. True, ...