Garnier Fructis Hair Food Watermelon

The first thing I noticed about the product is how large the packaging is, I doubt it would fit on most shower shelves or racks. The next thing was the smell – I tried the watermelon volumizing hair food – and the smell was very strong. I can see why it’s described as watermelon, but I didn’t find it pleasant as I did the shampoo bar. It seemed very unnatural and like something you would expect for maybe kids shampoo, it reminded of something from when I was little but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. It’s not what you would expect for an adult in my opinion. I have fine, straight hair that’s a bit past my shoulders and I found that a little goes a long way, you don’t need too much of it. With the large container I would expect this to last a few months so it’s pretty economical. You can use the hair food in 3 three ways – as a conditioner, a mask and as a leave in treatment so that’s a plus to have something that does so much. I found that it made my hair have what I would call sticking up bits and it wasn’t smooth and nourished like other masks I have used. The longer you leave it in, the more oily I found it made my hair, and I didn’t enjoy that, it was unpleasant to the touch. You have to put in effort to really wash it out when using it as a conditioner I thought, more so than other conditioners I have used. I didn’t find this product really worked for me, and combined with the smell I wouldn’t continue using it.

I have quite fine hair so I was really keen to give this a go. Although I wasn't really a fan of the watermelon scent I was really impressed with how it made my hair feel. I've used hair masks in the past and found they made my hair incredibly soft but this one really gave my hair some oomph and definitely made it feel and look fuller. I would love to keep using this hair food and hopefully they bring out a different fragrance.

This mask can be used as conditioner, mask or leave in. I wouldn't use as a leave in personally as I think it would be to heavy for my hair but it would definitely hydrate & give amazing shine. Again not a watermelon fragrance fan but it was fine. Used with the matching shampoo bar & was really surprised how they both were in my bleached fine hair. Lots of bounce, shine & volume & blow waved awesome. Will continue to use to see what the long term effects are.

Priced between $10-14 this mask will last a long time as a little goes a long way.

I like that this has 3 options for use, because it will appeal to people for different reasons. When I first opened the package it came in I thought the watermelon scent was going to be too much for me, but I actually enjoyed the light notes I caught after my hair was dry. The packaging is bright and appealing, but it didn't fit on my shelf, so is sitting on the shower floor.

It worked best as a regular conditioner for me. It was a bit too heavy as a leave in conditioner and my scalp felt a little itchy with that. My hair felt soft and smooth after blow drying, but after air drying felt almost a little greasy to the touch (it didn't look that way, just felt like there was product still there) I think I will use this occasionally as a mask as I'm quite sold on my current conditioner, but I do enjoy this.

Firstly the smell when I took the lid off was divine, fruity and definitely watermelon. The texture of the hair food is creamy making it easy to apply to the hair. I used my one as a conditioner on two occasions leaving it for 2 minutes each time. My hair was definitely soft and manageable. The only unfortunate thing for me was it made my scalp itchy for 24 hours after each use. Once my hair kind of got oily and dirty again it stopped itching so could be just an adjustment over time. I will preserve for another couple of uses and see how I go. Other than this though it added volume, made my hair manageable and was great to know it is paraben free, silicon free and can be used three ways. As a hair mask, a conditioner and a leave in treatment. Not many other products can do that !!

I’ve tried this conditioner as both a regular conditioner and as a leave in on wet hair. I haven’t tried it as a hair mask yet but as it performs well at the other two tasks I think it would be good at this too. The conditioning is not quite as good as my favourite preferred bottle conditioner, but it’s still good. The scent is really quite nice - I like it better than the shampoo bar. I do question the very large pot it comes in - I’d prefer something a bit smaller for travelling but could decant into something else. I was impressed that as a leave in on wet hair once dried it didn’t leave any residue or heavy feeling, which is great for fine hair. Definitely happy to use again.

I was lucky to receive the Garnier Fructis Hair Food Watermelon along with the Shampoo Bar as part of a Beauty Review Trial Team.

The Garnier Fructis Hair Food Watermelon comes in a large plastic tub with pleasing watermelon pictures and lots of great information on how to use the product. This product can be used 3 ways. 1. A Conditioner. 2. A hair Mask. 3. A leave in. This product claims to come from 97% Natural Origin and I really liked the fact that on the back they listed the ingredients and explained what they all meant and where they come from.

This product contains No nasties and is Vegan friendly which would encourage me to purchase again. The only thing that gave it a bit of a downfall was since I received it with the Bar Shampoo which had little cardboard packaging I felt I had undone my great "less packaging" as this comes in such a large plastic tub (then again I am not too sure how they could get around that?).

The product smells great, although not natural watermelon, was still pleasant to use. So far I used this product as a Conditioner. I don't normally use conditioner as I find it makes my hair oily too quickly, however, I really enjoyed this. The product was light-weight, easy to use, easy to wash out and left my hair shiny, silky and it did not get too oily.

I am yet to try the other ways of using it but am excited to keep trialing this product.

I am not sure if I would rush out and buy again, only due to the fact this is a product I wouldn't normally choose to purchase and use however, would recommend if you like hair masks and Conditioner, for the price its a fun product to try.

I trialed this a couple of ways, firstly combined with the watermelon shampoo bar. I felt that this was the way that it worked the best. I usually always have to use leave in conditioner to comb my hair after I shower but after I washed with the shampoo bar and conditioned with the hair food my hair felt super nice and easy to comb! I definitely noticed extra volume after it was dry and my natural wave was nice (my hair is very fine so it does crazy things when I wash it sometimes).

I also tried it just as a conditioner without the shampoo and that was definitely good too (as I don’t shampoo every day). I would happily use this as my day to day conditioner. I usually leave it in for closer to the 3 minutes that is recommended when using it as a treatment. I thought that maybe because it can be used as a treatment, just using as a conditioner my be too heavy but it didn’t weight my hair down.

I also tried it as a leave in conditioner on my ends after using my normal conditioner and that felt good too! I did it on wet hair and it didn’t weight my hair down. It doesn’t say to try it on dry hair but I imagine it would be too heavy for that.

I’m not sure if using it as a treatment vs a conditioner made much difference. My hair felt pretty much the same both ways, so I would probably recommend it as a day to day conditioner (especially for damaged hair although that isn’t what it promotes) and a leave in conditioner but I prefer something more specialised for a hair treatment.

The packaging is good, the big container is easy to use and you can get all of the product out of it easily. And the containers are good to re-used to throw bathroom items in or I use them most often to mix up hair dye in.

The scent is nice, not too strong but definitely present. I didn’t notice it once dry but if you prefer unscented products this wouldn’t be ideal for you. I have tried a few of the different hair food types and I think this one is my favourite.

I was lucky enough to be invited to trial both this product and the matching shampoo bar. I'm quite conflicted, as the shampoo bar sells itself as being a product that is environmentally friendly, with no plastic packaging, yet the matching conditioner comes in a whopping great plastic pot. I intensely disliked the packaging on the conditioner as it's too big and very clumsy to use in the shower. you need 2 hands to screw the lid back on after use. A conditioner bar is what Garenir should have produced rather than this.

I think value-wise it's good, as you only really need a small amount of product. I definitely prefer the scent of this to the shampoo bat but I still didn't love it. As I mentioned in my shampoo bat review, my hair felt dry and there were a lot of flyaways which makes me disinclined to ever purchase this product. It was nice to be selected to trial both these products but I did not enjoy them and they did not suit my hair at all.

I absolutely love this stuff! it smells so good and it’s super hydrating. It leaves my hair feeling really soft and looks nice and shiny! I also use it as my conditioner on days that i don’t have time to let it soak in like a mask. I wouldn’t say it’s volumising as per say but it definitely doesn’t weigh the hair down as some hair masks tend to do.