L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Total Repair 5 Conditioner Review

It is a big call claiming to "repair" hair. I am always drawn to these claims despite knowing that it is slightly unrealistic. Sadly ELVIVE is another one of these products. While it smells divine and left my hair feeling smooth while wet there ppeared to be little difference once my hair dried. I have to add that I do only wash my hair every 5-6 days so only used this conditioner 4 times. Maybe there will be more change over a longer period of time. I will happily use the remainder of the bottle but with reduced expectations.

I always get excited at the prospect of using a new conditioner. I am still trying to achieve the salon feel at home.

Unfortunately, although this conditioner smells very nice it did little to my hair and left it feeling dry and weighed down by product.

My hair is very long and dry and in desperate need of a good moisturising conditioner.. This product was not impressive to me and would not be worth the $8.99 price tag

I wanted so bad for this product to do everything it says it's going to do for your hair. I have really long thick wavy hair and it's really dry and brittle from previous bleaching. I've been shopping in the market for something that will help me with my hair. I have real bad flyaways and ultra dry hair. Using the conditioner after the shampoo made my hair feel no better. I felt like I had to use a lot of conditioner just to get it soft. Maybe it's just my hair?? But I felt that this product was no good for my hair

I purchased this in my grocery shopping when I ran out of hair product. At the time they had a half price sale on these and I was lured in by the bargain. My hair type is dry at the ends and I colour my hair a lot.

This conditioner comes in a small sized bottle. easy to get product out of it. Easy to read labelling. The consistency of this is thin white and creamy with a mild floral scent.

I applied this to my hair after I had shampooed it. During wash time my hair felt soft and smooth. My hair is thick and this product is thin I needed to use a lot. After drying my hair I never noticed any changes. My hair was still dry at the ends .

I'm glad I got this on special because it is pricy. Over a few weeks I never noticed any significant changes in my hair. This sized bottle would not last me a month. I wouldn't repurchase this because it didn't work on my hair.

The scent of this product is amazing but the formula and the product its self is horrible for my hair type. all it did for me was make my hair look greasy!

The packaging for this product is nice, simple and clear. All information is easy to read and the ingredients and what the product is supposed to do is clearly stated on the bottle. I needed to use quite a bit of product to completely cover my hair and the first time just massaged it in and rinsed as stated on bottle but felt my hair was dry still so the next time I used it I left it in for about 5 minutes and felt that made my hair a bit softer but was still knotted and had to brush out and use a leave in conditioner after. I didn't feel my hair was stronger, fuller, revitalized, silkier or shinier after use so I was left disappointed with this product. The one thing I did like was the scent, it was nice and fresh and lasted really well - probably 12hrs I could still smell it quite strongly in my hair which was really nice. All in all, I wouldn't use this product again.

I found that the conditioner was not moisturising and nourishing enough for my hair, and found that my hair was getting a lot more split ends and damage than I would normally get with my regular shampoo and conditioner. For the first couple of weeks my hair did look more shiny, fuller and softer but by the third week my hair started looking more coarse and dry and more damaged than usual. I only used heat styling once this whole time trialing and used a good heat protector so I didn't have any reason for my hair to have so many split ends. Overall it didn't really live up to its Total Repair name =(

So again with this one I took awhile to trial this as I was in 2 minds about it. The dull fragrance was lovely, didnt give me a headache and made using this product more pleasant. It has a soft texture and feels so gentle on my hair unlike other products I used. For the 1st week of used my hair felt AMAZING! I had people commenting on it asking what I was using or what I had done to it. It was easy to apply and had directions if you werent sure how to get full affect of the repairing. But sadly my joy went away the 6th wash. Did everything I normally do and massaged my hair as usual to find as soon as I had taken running water off my hair, it knotted and went gross like horse hair. My hair had never been like this even with how much damage I have inflicted on it. So I gave it another wash the next day, and again the same thing happened. (Was used in conjunction with the shampoo). So I ended up buying a leave in detangling spray to get the knots out and make my hair feel better. I was pretty disappointed. Im not sure if it was because my hair is severely damaged or what was happening.

I was super excited to trial both this and the matching shampoo, upon receiving the product the bottle was attractive and a decent size. After shampooing I used this, I found it had a very unpleasant fragrance, not like the shampoo which smelt lovely. Applying to the ends of my hair I felt like I needed quite a large amount, even with the product on my hair it didnt feel coated or smooth as a conditioner usually feels, after rinsing it out, my hair felt awful, worse than before washing it. Once dried etc my roots felt silky and smooth but the ends most definitely did not, I gave this conditioner a go for almost two weeks but have had to stop using it as my hair feels terrible and I am having a large amount of residue left on my scalp (yes it is completely rinsed out) I'm not sure whether this is from the conditioner or the shampoo though. I really wanted to love this product but sadly I will not be using it again...

To start, my first impression of this conditioner was that it smelt amazing. The smell also stays on for some more time after washing.

It leaves the scalp and hair clean and fresh.

L'Oreal claimed this conditioner would restore my hair back to its optimum health, however the product was a little disappointing. I don't think it made my hair any better than it was before. It did make my hair incredibly straight if I washed before bed and woke up in the morning which was a bonus.

I started off with high hopes with this product, and it just didn't live up to its expectations, I probably wouldn't purchase this type next time around.