Dove Hair Oil and Intensive Repair

Show me a Sunday night where I'm not covering my hair in conditioner, wading through it with my Tangle Teezer, desperately trying to repair the damage of another tough-on-the-hair-weekend, and I'll show you a pig that can fly.

As a great woman once said, with great hair comes great responsibility.*
And, when it comes to backcombing it to within an inch of its life, your hair will always make sure that if you do the crime, you do the time.

So when I find, come Sunday night, I can barely get my fingers through my bouffant, I have no one to blame but myself.
Thankfully, I do have someone else to rely on for detangling.

No, I'm not a mega-rich princess who has a maid to brush her long, flowing locks each night (we can dream, we can dream).
I have Dove.
Two Dove's, to be precise.
And both costing as much as a Costa.

Nourishing Oil Care.

I can't get enough of this stuff.
Whether hair's dry, wet, up, down..this stuff doesn't care. It's not prejudiced! It will still nourish and tame and leave you smelling nice.
I'm literally obsessed with it at the moment.
I did have the coloured-hair variety, but now I have the Oil Care.
To be honest- I can't see that there's a difference. They both smell the same and act the same.

The formula comes in two parts- an oil which sits on top and a watery-conditioner.
You have to shake (well) to mix the two and spritz on to hair.
The one thing I'd change is the bottle- it spritzes fine when full, but when you've just got a bit at the bottom, getting it out becomes a problem.
Likewise trying to spray at an angle (which let's face it, is always how you want to spray your hair).

These two products have become part of my regular shopping list. A bottle of spray can last for about a month (if I'm stringent) and costs around £1.73 when it's on offer (a lot) at Boots.

A bottle of Intensive Repair conditioner? Four washes, at best.
I tend to slather it on in the shower, tie my hair up and give a good rinse at the end.
It does say it's a 1 minute conditioner, which is great for in a hurry- but I tend to leave it on just to make sure.
It leaves hair much easier to detangle (handy if you actually want to sleep at night...), soft, shiny and smelling clean.
I'd really like to see Dove make this stuff in a big tub, like Tresemme does with its conditioners.
But then I guess they wouldn't have thick-haired tangle-obsessives like me splashing out on a new bottle every fortnight.


*I don't know who, if anyone, has ever said this.









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#REVIEW- This One Light Hair Oil

Up until a year ago, I couldn't imagine any two words I disliked more in the same sentence.  'Hair' and 'Oil.'

Unless I'm mistaken and this is once again 2001, the slicked back look really isn't all it's cracked up to be. I mean SURE it's all over the catwalks and fashion magazines (and ironically the one below).

But we all know in every day life, greasy hair is a huge no-no. I mean, there's a reason dry shampoo is a gazillion-dollar market. Because when it comes to hair, mid-lengths and ends can be matt n messy or smooth and silky, curly or straight. Just leave the roots alone. 

Remembering the many (many) hair disasters I had as an adolescent (slicked back pony with two bits coming down at the front, anyone?) it was with trepidation that I read about the trend for 'hair oils'.

But having tested a few 'higher end' samples and liked, I've got to say- finally, nice hair oils have made their way in to the drugstore market. 

I got this on offer at Superdrug. It was £3 as opposed to £7 which (I think) it's creeped up to now *major sad face* But will I repurchase at that price? Well, let's read on and find out.

What it Says

Get your locks under control with This One, a lightweight, nourishing, smoothing and shine enhancing hair oil- use pre blow dry for taming frizz or after for finishing shine.

A short description, but packed full of buzz words- would this be the nourishing, smoothing, shining oil my dry hair was after?

I used it as suggested, taking one or two small pumps, rubbing between hands and running through the mid-lengths and ends of hair.
I'll be honest, I was expecting it to feel sticky or bunched together after blowdrying, but it felt neither.
It is very lightweight and the-morning-after-the-night-before, my hair just feels clean and fresh not bogged down by product at all.

I'm very interested in the ingredients, as this promises argan, pequi and jojoba all in one tube for a very reasonable price. Looking on the back of the product there are a lot of confusing names I don't recognise. I do see references to all three oils, but you have to wonder at the quality and/ or quantity of what's used.

But what am I expecting for £3? Overall I'm an impressed reviewer and lover of all things hair. I've been using this for around three weeks now and hardly made a dent, so for me, this was well worth the money.

Review by Numbers

Did it live up to it's promises?-4/5. My hair is smoother and more tamed without being weighed down or greasy. Success!

Packaging- 4/5- I really like the packaging. The bottle isn't too bulky, so it's easy to have one hand on your hair and another pumping product in a slap-dash or hurried manner. It's really light too, so would be great for traveling (and we all know how I feel about that!)

Value for money- 5/5-at £3 you can not go wrong. And if this is still on offer at Superdrug, I'd urge you to go and pick it up now. Go on, what are you waiting for?! For £7...hmm, well that is a price-hike, isn't it?! But I guess the whole point is to get you hooked.
So let's put it this way- I will always have a hair oil in my regime and I much prefer this to the other high-street versions- L'oreal's Extraorndinary Oil and Tresemme Liquid Gold.
Both feel like they're packing much more silicone than the This One one (my, that's a literary confusion)

Recommend to a friend? Yes.If you're looking to get in to hair oils you don't want to splash too much cash (what if you don't like it, afterall?) So I would definitely recommend you check out This One.

Have you tried any other products in the This One range? What do you think?



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