I LOVE essano. Love them. Their products are affordable, available in Countdown, cruelty-free and natural. What's not to love?
Their toe-dip into the complicated world of blonde hair is mostly a success.
I love the pump bottle, always a bonus for an in-shower product. It's a generous size for the price. 2 pumps is enough for my long, thick hair.
The shampoo is a deep violet, perfect for offsetting those yellow tones.
My hair is balayaged from natural brown to blonde. I usually use a purple conditioner from a salon brand called Nak. I usually opt for a purple conditioner rather than shampoo as I find purple shampoos drying.
I did suspect that essano's sulphate free and purple shampoo would run on the dry side, and it does - my hair is definitely left drier than when using my usual (non purple) shampoo, but no more dry than using any other purple shampoo.
My hair was left wonderfully toned, there was no yellow left and my hair was left manageable and frizz-free.
All up, this is a really nice purple shampoo - it does everything a salon purple shampoo would do, at a fraction of the cost.
This product works well, it’s not often you can find blonde tone correcting shampoo and conditioner, let alone from the supermarket. First I noticed that this product was very blue look to the product, different to the normal shampoo which is purple. This seems to make hair not as grey, which I enjoy as often my hair gets a dark tinge when I use it often. The product smells pleasant and you need only a small amount at a time. I would recommend this to be used weekly to keep brassy tones at bay.
Tips: But both the shampoo and conditioner, I feel that it the shampoo works well but the conditioner adds that extra moisture that you need.