L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Total Repair 5 Conditioner Review

Thankfully I got to try both the Shampoo and Conditioner. I had high hopes for the L'Oreal range, and was excited about the new ads on TV suggesting they are including keratin in some of the hair care products.

Firstly, I'll start by saying I liked how light the conditioner was, but to be honest I didn't feel overly clean afterwards. If you have read my shampoo review you will see that I have naturally curly hair which when a product is good will go into quite nice loose spiral curls, unfortunately this wasn't the case with this product. Between that and the unclean feeling I'm not a big fan.

Again, I have curly, frizzy, oily, heavily heat damaged hair.

I used this in addition to the elvive total repair shampoo. It had a nice silky consistency and smells fantastic. And that's pretty much where my praise ends.

I had to condition my hair twice! It felt ok while I was in the shower. After I towel dried my hair, it was so matted and dry that I had to comb through a serum in my hair!!!!

I'm not sure if it was a combination of both products that my hair didn't take to kindly to but I probably won't be purchasing this conditioner again.

Totally didn't do what it said it would and I used it consecutively for 3weeks. I didn't notice strengthened hair at all. I was really disappointed, sad to say

I am a hairdresser by trade so I was keen to give supermarket brands a whirl and see what they are like. I have been using Redken for about 7 years.

This conditioner is horrible!! It is so watered down and thin. It made my hair knotty and messy that I could not even run my fingers through my wet hair. A problem I have not had since I was 12!

I mixed and matched the Redken conditioner and shampoo with this Loreal conditioner and shampoo. Every time I used this conditioner, no matter if it was Redken shampoo or Loreal, my hair was in tatters. However, if I used any of the shampoos and my Redken conditioner, my hair was smooth and lovely. So it was definitely the conditioner at fault.

The shampoo was great, but the conditioner did not work well with my hair type.

So I have quite long hair, it's pretty wrecked from bleach and I was hoping this would be the answer to my hair prayers... I like the bottle, its easy to hold and open in the shower and I guess what you expect a conditioner bottle should look like. The texture is quite nice, and really easy to spread through your hair, and the smell isn't over powering. I really wanted to love this product, but after using it coupled with the matching shampoo my hair was drier than usual and so tangled and knotty constantly, I thought maybe I need to give it a bit more of a chance to work it's magic but after using it several more times I am certain this is not the one for me.

I purchased these a while ago, thinking 'oh L'Oreal is good' but i was fooled. This is NOT the same sort of L'Oreal you buy from the salon. I strongly disliked the smell and didn't find it nourishing what so ever! I think i still have these products years later as i never used but hold on to the 'just in case' moment where i may need to use it hehehe