Herbal Essences None of your Frizzness Conditioner

I have hair that can get as long as my waist depending on the time of year. Because I donate it to charity, I don't like to blow dry it. I'm lucky that I work from home so that I don't have requirements on how it looks :) Even so, though, I'm not fond of frizzy hair. Normally when you don't blow-dry hair, frizziness is something that can happen. I'm always looking for a shampoo and conditioner solution that can keep the frizziness to a minimum.

The Herbal Essences "None of your Frizzness" line is specifically made as a smoothing solution. The first thing I noticed about the conditioner is that it is THICK. I thought the shampoo was too thick - but the conditioner was even more thick! It was very hard to get it down through the layers of hair, to get it to coat the hair well. I don't think a conditioner needs to be this thick and molasses-like to help hair lay flat.

I do like the color - a pearly orange-peach. What's interesting is that they call this "mandarin balm and pearls". If you look at the ingredient list they do actually have ground up pearls and mandarin orange in here! Orange I can understand - citrus helps to cut grease in hair care and skin products. Pearls, though? I'm not quite sure what ground up pearls does for hair.

I do agree that the conditioner's job is to manage the hair's appearance, while the shampoo's job is to clean the hair first. So if anything is going to be thick, it should be the conditioner. Even so, though, I think the conditioner doesn't need to be quite THIS thick.

A larger issue, though, is that after using the Herbal Essences conditioner my face felt "tingly" / hot for the rest of the day, as if my skin was allergic to something. I realize that not everyone is allergic to the same things - obviously some people have allergies to peanuts, while other people eat them daily. However, for me this was of course the final issue. I have to review products as they affect me, not as I would guess that they might affect other people.

Even though the conditioner is so thick, it still only helps somewhat with frizziness. I have several other products that help much better with frizz problems. So even for non-allergic people, I'm not sure this is the best solution.

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