Polished London Bristol Bloom Dry Shampoo

I have super oily hair. I wash my hair everyday if i have somewhere to go. On my off days I will use dry shampoo (going somewhere unimportant). I usually use Batiste but I saw this at the pharmacy and the packaging got me. After spraying this through my hair and brushing it out, my hair was not "refreshed" it still looked limp and oily. I ended up just washing my hair cause it was that bad. After a few more go's I gave up on this and did not finish the product; went back and purchased my usual. Did I get a bad one or what...?

It was my first time using a dry shampoo and I'm usually not one to dislike a product so quick, as i did this one. The smell has such an overpowering floral scent and its just not me, but i though it could look past it and just continue to use it. Well I shortly stopped after a couple of uses. why you ask? It didn't do its job. I was still left oily during the day and had to just wash it out anyways as it was eh.. I had heard it was better to use it before bed at night as it then has all night to soak up some of the oil.. Again it didn't.

I hate to bag on a product that just needs some slight improvements, then maybe it could be better, but im sorry to say i went out and brought Batiste, it cost more, but its overall better.

I recall buying this one instead of my normal Batiste as it was cheaper. ($12 instead of Batiste which is about $18-20 at Farmers) I was a bit vary as it is a brand I've never heard of, but I gave it a go.

It has a very sweet, florally smell however it is a little too sweet and artificial for my taste in terms of a dry shampoo. It was almost too overpowering - much stronger than my perfume and I found that the scent followed me all day. If you like a strong smell then that's great. But I find it very annoying when I can only smell my hair. Especially when it is such an artificial scent.

While it does as it says it will, I find that it is no where as good as Batiste dry shampoo is. I found that I had to spray more than I normally would to get a decent amount of product on my hair in order to get rid of the oily bits, and by more, I mean A LOT more. Which is probably why my bottle ran out very quickly. Say within 3-4 weeks.

Whenever I use dry shampoo, it gives me another 2 to 4 days of clean before I have to wash it, however with this brand, I found that it only lasted me about half a day, before I noticed large flakes and dandruff like pieces between my hair. Not a good look, especially if you have dark black hair.

However I liked that the powder that it sprayed out wasn't as opaque as my Batiste dry shampoo is. This was good as it very little effort to massage it in and brush it out for it too look like there was nothing in my hair.

I lovingly received this as a gift and feel blessed that I got to try it as I love my dry shampoos. Unfortunately this relationship wasn't to last long as I didn't like it at all (super sorry). The one thing I did like was the smell, I can't really explain the fragrance but I would say it was a floral type fragrance. It was easy to use however I didn't find it helped give me hair a boost in between washes. It actually left my hair feeling more greasy than less greasy, perhaps I used too much? Definitely not a fan I'm afraid but glad I got to try a different brand to compare my Batiste with.

I'd been wanting to try dry shampoo for a while so I was very excited to receive the Polished London dry shampoo to review. My hair is chin length, dark, fine and dead straight, and I tend to get oily roots by the end of the day. I wondered whether this would be a way to be able to give it a quick boost.

Before I tried it the first time I had a look at the ingredients. This scared the bejeezus out of me. This stuff comes with a warning that it is EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE. The primary ingredients, those that provide the propellant, are butane, isobutane and propane. Hello, thats Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). Yikes! It did a good job of getting the product out of the can - it came out at a great rate of knots, about a billion times the speed of hairspray which makde it hard to focus the spray just at my roots. It went everywhere.

The main active ingredient is maize starch, a really fine absorbent powder that, along with a few other ingredients, bulks up to pull dirt and oils from the hair. A few other ingredients provide detangling and conditioning properties and fragrance. A brief word of warning, two ingredients, linalool and hexl cinnamal, can be problematic for those with sensitive skin or allergies, so do a skin test at least 12 hours before trying it for the first time. I didn't have any problems myself.

I found the main problem with the product that it was hard to control and so I always ended up with more than I wanted on my hair. I tried spraying it into the palm of my hand to run it through my hair that way but the isobutane, which is also a refridgerant, froze my hand for a minute instead. This was not dangerous (although it can be if inhaled - please keep it out of the reach of those who might do that sort of thing), but a bit freaky! It did make my hair feel clean and smooth again for a while but, because my hair is very fine and straight, it eventually left it feeling greasy again. The powder dulled the shine of my hair too. The Bristol Bloom fragrance was very nice, not overpowering and not chemically. I would guess that this is a pretty inexpensive brand. The packaging is a bit cheap and dated looking.

Overall, while grateful to have had the chance to try this product I wasn't overly impressed with it. Its just a bit too hard to use to get a good result and its still a bit scary.

I have very oily hair - I have to wash it every night and if I don't, by midday the next day it is greasy and flat. So I didn't wash my hair one night and put this on around lunchtime the following day. It smells absolutely lovely! And it helped a little bit for a few hours. Then I tried it again today - after a blow dry yesterday and a bit of exercise today - and again it helped for a few hours. I think this would probably work really well for people who don't have as oily hair as me, or if they just need to get a few more hours out of their hair (like going out after work or something). I will definitely use it again because of the fresh smell and how it does take away the greasy look.

I was in desperate need of some dry shampoo and I finally found some in my local chemist. I have fine hair which gets oily easily, so dry shampoo is a must have for me. I found this reasonably priced at around $10. The packaging was pretty and it has a nice scent. It did an ok job of keeping the oils at bay, but I still find the V05 dry shampoo to be much more effective. I don't feel it has much of a volumising effect either.

I received this product from a violet box and I absolutely adore it.

I recently ran out of my holy grail dry shampoo which is batiste and I had this one in the cupboard and saw that I had this one hiding away.

I get quite oily hair and found that this dry shampoo managed to make it look clean and gave it amazing volume. I love the scent of the pink one and I love how it doesn't give your hair a white cast like the batiste one has.

It does have quite a strong pressured spray so do stand back

I brought this stuff when it was on special and it was my second dry shampoo. I don't really know if I like it that much... So I put it down the middle of my hair and it turns my hair grey. It really looks weird. Then you have to pat it down and try absorb it into your hair. It takes me ages to get the grey out and it leaves my hair feeling dry (guess it should though) but its not a good try. Kind of feels like hair spray and your hair goes hard and crispy.

I love the idea of this! Would be great for the gym, and want to test this out when I have really yuck hair! I tried this on fairly dirty hair, and it really freshened it up! However it had made my head reaaaaaally itchy! I have a sensitive scalp so if I use this again I will be using a lot lighter hand, which is kind of disappointing as I love the effect of this! But my head won't stop itchiiiiiiiiing! I wanted this to work for me soooo bad as the effect is great! Will definitely be seeing if they have more types of this brand! The scent is great, smells really nice, not like hair spray at all. And for $9.99 from farmers you can't go wrong! And the packaging is great! For the money and the effect I would definitely say to try this one out ladies!