I'm thinking of giving up expensive hair products...
- Thread starter caribeandiva
- Start date
krissyprissy
Well-Known Member
kandegirl said:
I also go to Trade Secrets for high end products, but will only purchase sale items or clearance stuff. I like cheaper products such as Optimun, Jasons, Profective, Surge, and Kids Organics. Suave and Vo5 are just ok.
Another poster hit it on the head - and I use some "Expensive brands" and some drug-store stuff.
Expensive brands are usually a lot more concentrated. While I love Suave's Milk and Honey Conditioner and I'm impressed with the ingredients (lots of oils) - that mess is SOOOOO thin compared to conditioners that I'm used to... which makes it GREAT for con-washing and detangling, not so great for deep conditioning. It'd take half a bottle of Suave to do what a 1/10th of a bottle of my Sage Conditioner will do.
And when you do the math - they probably come out about event. I buy my $18 conditioner once every 3 months, and a new bottle of suave every other week.
Mix and match. I'd say cheaper shampoos can be covered by more expensive conditioners. Leave-ins are leave-ins as they all tend to have the same ingredients, to varying degrees. I get my 1 Liter bottle of Abba Nourishing from the Drug Store for $15. LOVE it.
Expensive brands are usually a lot more concentrated. While I love Suave's Milk and Honey Conditioner and I'm impressed with the ingredients (lots of oils) - that mess is SOOOOO thin compared to conditioners that I'm used to... which makes it GREAT for con-washing and detangling, not so great for deep conditioning. It'd take half a bottle of Suave to do what a 1/10th of a bottle of my Sage Conditioner will do.
And when you do the math - they probably come out about event. I buy my $18 conditioner once every 3 months, and a new bottle of suave every other week.
Mix and match. I'd say cheaper shampoos can be covered by more expensive conditioners. Leave-ins are leave-ins as they all tend to have the same ingredients, to varying degrees. I get my 1 Liter bottle of Abba Nourishing from the Drug Store for $15. LOVE it.
LovelyLionessa
Active Member
I am all about using cheap products, I just never really got into the whole salon thing. Fortunately, I have found plenty of products that work for me from Sally's, drugstores and discount chains like Wal-Mart and Target. CON is a great line that I can't really go wrong with, the poo I use consistently and I keep coming back to their Nourishing Conditioner. NTM is my staple line, all their products work really well. ORS RP paks are a great supplement for deep conditioning. I find cheapie conditioners like Suave Milk & Honey are ideal for pre poos when mixed with oil, co-washes, and as a detangling cream rinse. Right now I am madly in love with Wonder 8 oil and Africa's Best oil, they work wonders on my hair. 
The more expensive products I use at the moment are WGO, Rusk Smoother, and QB Alma & Olive Heavy Cream and they are worth every penny.
The more expensive products I use at the moment are WGO, Rusk Smoother, and QB Alma & Olive Heavy Cream and they are worth every penny.
caribeandiva
Human being
KhandiB said:
I KNOW!! that's what i was looking at walmart for but they were out. Target has it though.
LovelyLionessa
Active Member
caribeandiva said:
My Wal-Mart doesn't carry it either. So I either get mine at Target or better yet when it goes on sale at Brooks or Walgreens for $3.99.
caribeandiva
Human being
pink_n_green_iz_me said:
I know. That book is my hair bible. i love it! Shamboosie is right and without his expert advice i wouldn't have made any progress at all. His recommendations do work but if NTM is a high quality line (only cheaper than Nexxus) why not consider it? i might not switch permanently or at all. I'm thinking about it.
shunta
New Member
Lately, I have just been using my CON, and my hair is doing great. I like Elucence, too, but I get tired of having to order it offline and paying shipping, etc. I think Im gonna try this Neutrogena Triple Moisture line, so I can rotate my products so my hair wont get used to one thing. I hope I like it, wish me luck, Ladies!!!
LovelyLionessa
Active Member
I love my cheapies!! They work so well. The majority of my products cost around $5 or less. Plus I have discovered a lot of "food" items that work really well in the hair. Honey, molasses, coffee, yogurt, mayo, evoo, coconut oil and I'm all set to try ACV next.
scribblescrabble2
New Member
I can't say completely agree with Paula, but some of high end products are probably overpriced. Miss Jessie's is a good example because all of the ingredients in their products are relatively inexpensive, but the price of the product itself is ridiculous. I remember reading an article years ago where a businesswoman admitted that some companies raise the price of their products because alot of people think that high price = quality.
I don't buy cheap products, mainly because they don't work for me, period.
But if they did, I would probably use them. I use mid priced products from small companies for the most part.
I don't buy cheap products, mainly because they don't work for me, period.
But if they did, I would probably use them. I use mid priced products from small companies for the most part.
Last edited:
caribeandiva said:
I LOVE that book. I bought it years ago.
Thats how I found out about NTM.
Before that I was wasting crazy money on Philip B, Phyto, Nexxus, Terax traveling all over to exclusive salons that carry this stuff. They weren't really doing anything for my hair. (nexxus was ok)
I bought the book and I started using Loreals Colorvive line because it had the same ingredients as the expensive Kerastase. It was doing my hair very good, then I read about NTM and that did my hair even better. Most of my staples I found from Paula's books.
John Frieda frizz ease serum, NTM Line, prescriptives makeup etc etc. Somone on the board recommended Rusk Smoother, I looked it up in Paulas book and she gave it a thumbs up and thats been another staple of mine.
Similar threads
