TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 4.9* Why: Readers say this product has an "outrageous price" and is "not worth it at all." One says, "this shampoo is definitely not worth the price [as] it made my hair feel very heavy and flat." Another user had a similar experience saying, "I used a small amount of the shampoo like it said to and my hair ended up limp, lifeless and full of static. My hair was impossible to style -- no body and wouldn't hold a curl for anything."
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 4.9* Why: One reader says, "this shampoo smells great but doesn't do much for my thick, coarse hair," and it leaves another reader's fine hair feeling "waxy." Another woman says this product "made my hair a matted mess! It made my hair drier than it was to begin with [and] the smell is sickening. FAIL!" One user says, she "was amazed how terrible it was. Within two days of purchasing it I threw it out. My hair felt greasy, matted and all around dirty." Another says she "hated the smell" so much that "it was so hard to get past it. It smelled sour and rancid."
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 4.5* Why: Readers say, "I heard about Bumble and bumble and thought I would give it a try. I was not impressed at all. I have fine hair and by the end of the day it was greasy and flat." Another says, "I was really disappointed with this shampoo, especially considering how much I paid for it! Didn't do anything special to my hair and it didn't even smell good. The only thing that it did do was clean my hair, but so can a 99 cent bottle of Suave. Never again!" And one woman says, "I'd only use this to wash a dog I didn't like."
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 3.3* Why: One reader says, "this is an awful product, and the words I uttered in the shower while using it aren't the kind of words to use here. Where do I start? The back of the bottle should say, 'remember, you get what you pay for.' Sticky? Yes. Foul odor? Yup. Causes knots, tangles and unbrushable hair? Yup. Will conditioner fix this problem? Nope ... no way." And another says, "this shampoo made my hair heavy, dry and just horrible! I used it once then washed my dog with it."
TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 3.3* Why: One reader describes her experience with this product as "one bottle, three people and a trash can." Translation: "My roommate gave this to me with no explanation and I was stoked. I kept using it even though it barely lathered and left my poor hair stripped of all moisture and impossible to style. Finally I gave it to my sister, thinking it would work better [for her]. She used it once and threw it out." Another reader also "really wanted to like this" and thought "maybe a fifth or sixth attempt may 'improve' the hair," but alas she continued to be left with "a greasy scalp by the end of the night, lifeless tired roots, and dirty hair that needed to be rewashed."
Of all the hair care products in your shower, your shampoo is a nonnegotiable necessity.
We all need a good lather to wash out the grime after a run or after we've employed multiple styling products. But a great shampoo (like the reader-approved hair care products on this list) should not only leave our hair soft, clean and smelling delightful, it should also help cut down post-shower styling time by priming strands for our desired style of the day.
But when the shampoo we choose to use ends up dirtying our hair instead of cleaning it, and dries it out instead of infusing it with the moisture we need -- that's when it ends up on our worst shampoos list.
Readers say these shampoos left their hair high and dry -- literally. Instead of creating soft strands, these hair care products left hair feeling "plastic-y," "waxy," and some even made readers fear that their "hair was going to fall out" due to the burning and itching feeling left behind on their scalps -- yikes! Some of these shampoos were so bad that they were "tossed in the trash before my hair was dry," or condemned to being used only on "a dog they didn't like." Curious to see which products our readers are referring to?
