Sexy Silky Shiny No-Frizz Hair (Kérastase Nutritive Bain Oleo-Relax Smoothin Shampoo)

Member Name: sandrabarber

Product:	Kérastase Nutritive Bain Oleo-Relax Smoothin Shampoo
Date:	10/10/02 (5972 review reads)
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Advantages: Detangles, Smoothens, Shines

Disadvantages: Expensive

You have thick, curly, frizzy and totally unruly hair. You try everything Boots, Superdrug and your local chemist has to offer, and find some products only marginally better than others. Many products make your hair worse. Then you find something that turns your locks into silky, shiny, frizz-free, tangle-free satin. You're over the moon, right?

That's me. I've just got to tell you about L'Oreal Kerastese Oleo Relax Shampoo.

I recently went to a salon who left my hair so shiny, silky and manageable that I couldn't believe it. What they had used on me were Oleo Relax products from the L'Oreal Kerastese range. I left that shop feeling like someone else. I couldn't stop running my fingers through my hair and marvelling at the fact that they weren't getting bogged down in knots. I kept looking in the mirror, amazed that my hair was smoothly reflecting the light instead of haloing around my head like a ball of frizz.

Two days later I washed my hair, and to my despair it went back to its normal messy self. There was nothing else for it but to get back to the salon and buy what they'd used on me.

The Oleo Relax range comprises shampoo, masque (conditioner) and serum. I bought the lot. This op, however, is about the shampoo.

It comes in an orange coloured transparent plastic bottle. It's reasonably stylish looking, but that's really not important anyway. What matters is results.

You notice that this shampoo is different when you spread it on your hair. It's medium in consistency and feels slightly silky, even a tad oily, in your hand. Apply it to your hair and it lathers up wonderfully, and you can actually feel it untangling and smoothing as you massage. Normally, all shampoos do for me (besides clean, of course) is tie my hair in even more knots. You need less than you do with most shampoos, too.

When I rinsed thi
s shampoo out, my hair felt as though it had
been conditioned, even though this is not a conditioning shampoo. As a result, I needed to use only a tiny amount of conditioner afterwards, as opposed to the half bottle I normally slather on.

Apparently, this shampoo is so good because it is packed with oils and silicones, both of which make hair smooth and shiny by coating the hair with a very fine film. It also utilises what it describes as 'a unique micro-emulsion technology'. I have no idea what that is, but I can vouch that it works.

You might be worried that coating your hair with a fine film of oils and silicones could lead to stickiness or greasiness, but it does not. Your hair just feels naturally fantastic.

Smell-wise, the shampoo is faintly medicinal but not unpleasant or anything like those horrible medicated dandruff shampoos. It's a smell I can't really equate to anything else or any other hair product I've tried. It is a clean smell, and your hair stays smelling clean for a couple of days afterwards.

Occasionally I suffer from scalp eczema, and I've noticed that this shampoo has helped. I suspect it's the oils that moisturise the skin and lead to less itching and/or soreness. It's not marketed as a shampoo for eczema, though, and it might just be that mine cleared up anyway, so don't read too much into that.

Last but by no means least, availability and price. Kerastese Oleo Relax cannot be bought in chemists, department stores or supermarkets, and it ain't cheap.

I paid £9 for a 250 ml bottle from the salon, but I've since bought it off the internet for £8.25 discounted to £6.60 because I spent over £30 at thehairshop.co.uk (10% discount for orders up to £20 and 15% if you spend between £20 and £30).

Expensive, yes, but worth every penny for me. At last I have hair I don't hate and that doesn't hate me.

If it was possible for one to
have sex with one's hair, I'd b
e doing it right now.

Highly, highly recommended.

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