essano Blonde Conditioner

This purple conditioner made my hair feel smooth and left my hair shiny. The purple colour probably enhanced the brightness of my blonde from the shampoo.

This trial couldn't have come at a better time for me as i'd just had my hair freshly coloured and it was probably a bit too blonde for me going into winter

Loved the packaging in particular that the bottles have a BIG 'shampoo' and a 'BIG conditioner label on the front so you can tell them apart. I wish the conditioner was a pump too, but hey, you can't win them all.

The fragrance in both was neutral, nothing much to say about that.

Big question - did it do what it said it would? And the big answer? YES! It toned down my brassy highlights and left my locks looking great. The conditioner did a great job of detangling and smoothing without leaving my hair feeling slippery and limp.

Overall loved loved loved it, and would absolutely buy it again. It's great to know that you can finally get a supermarket purple shampoo and conditioner equivalent to a salon one without shelling out the big bucks.

Big tick Essano!

I wasn’t as much of a fan with this as I was with the shampoo. I felt this let me down a little with it’s barely there purple tone and wasn’t very nourishing on my hair. Also I would love to have seen this with a pump like the shampoo. It does have a pleasant fragrance and again a decent sized bottle that would last well for those with shorter hair. I feel that this would be probably well suited for people who don’t need super hydration or those who tend to go a little on the oiler side as it is very light weight . It wouldn’t be my first choice for conditioner for my long thick hair, but it wasn’t awful just didn’t provide the Hydration my hair craves.

Just like the shampoo this product is great for the price, and also great to find at the supermarket where the choice is limited for blonde shampoos. I find this product to be very moisturising and helps make the shampoo not seem too harsh on the hair. I used this a good few times, after my hair was freshly dyed and was showing brassy tones. This helped well. I’ll buy this again when I’m finished as my normal blonde shampoo is over $20 just for the shampoo

I raved on about the story of my bleached blonde hair in my shampoo review so won't repeat it here other than to say the condition of my hair is a extremely damaged and porous with a LOT of daily breakage. Again, the conditioner in this range smells amazing. It is lightly pigmented, more a lilac colour which is great after the intensity of the shampoo. The product goes on well and I didn't hold back on my mid lengths and ends. I found it easy to comb through and the comb was not full of hair which has become my norm, very pleased about that! My hair was soft on drying, I can't really comment on the smoothing because my hair is never smooth on drying these days; it requires a lot of product and light straightening to get it half way decent. In saying this it was just as smooth as the in salon products I have recently been using. I would recommend this conditioner to others and will continue to use it.

The smell of the shampoo was OK, but the conditioner smelt like burnt plastic! However the smell didn't remain in the hair once washed out. It claims to be a low foam shampoo, but I found it very foamy. The conditioner was really easy to comb through, which is what I tend to find most difficult if conditioner isn't up to scratch. I love the environmentally friendly aspect of the bottles and contents, and the pump bottle makes it very easy to dispense. The product isn't bad, but my hair was a bit frizzy once dry. Colour wise, it did appear to brighten the blonde a bit but not a lot of brassiness removed - in fact I think I look more ginger than ever! I would possibly use again though, especially for the RRP!

This conditioner has less of a scent than the matching shampoo, it's a light floral scent. It is very moisturising and a little goes a long way. The first time I used it I spent ages trying to wash it all out. I would recommend using no more than a $2 coin sized amount. My hair is soft and silky and no signs of brassiness when using this and the matching shampoo. I love that its gentle enough to use every wash and keeps your hair in good condition

I used this together with the Essano blonde purple shampoo, it had a more gentle fragrance than the shampoo which was nice and was quite moisturising, but not that heavy. However i found that using the pair together was a bit rich for my fine blonde hair. It did leave my hair shiny and nice and soft , but i was having to wash my hair daily when i used these products and thats not ideal.

This conditioner really deserves full marks. My hair is fine and it did its job too well. It immediately softened and smoothed my hair imparting a lovely shine but on my fine hair I found it flattened it. This is not the brands fault as any conditioner has that effect on me and instead of putting it on the tips only I covered my whole head and luxuriated in it. Bad move. In future I would follow the manufacturer's instructions. I would heartily endorse it for the majority of hair types. I put it on immediately after the shampoo and you could feel the strands of hair smoothing out and untangling. Drying it was a breeze and instead of me looking like a wild child with sticky up hair I found to my delight it lay flat and smooth. The container has a lid that when you press on the indent it flips up and you can pour it out easily. The bottle itself isn't rigid so you can give it a gentle squeeze to speed things up. Again, the container is smart enough to display on your shelf beside the Shampoo bottle. They are both tall and slender which fits a lot better and takes up less room than a squat fat bottle would.

This conditioner smells DIVINE and also leaves me hair super soft and manageable - which is a must for a blonde conditioner. The only thing is it doesn't tone my hair as much as a salon purple conditioner..