Laurie longs to learn…I’ve been a fan of the WEN type products for years. My short blonde hair works well with this type of product. I recently read a review of Herbal Essences new Naked Cleansing Conditioner and it sounds like it does what WEN does for a lot less. Should I give it a try?
The Beauty Brains respond:
I’ve got news for you, Laurie, you can spend even less that that!
There are essentially two or three ingredients that make the new Herbal Essences formula work: the fatty alcohols (stearyl and cetyl alcohol) and the stearamidopropyl dimethylamine. There’s a little bit of dimethicone here as well which all that great for “naked” conditioning. For this conditioning cocktail, Herbal Essences charges you $6.99 for 16.9 ounces ($0.41/oz.)
Suave on the other hand has formula that is VERY similar, sans the dimethicone. I would expect it to work very similarly and it only costs $1.89 for 22.5 ounces ($0.08/oz.)! VO5 also sells a stripped down conditioner at that price but the formula is a little different.
Herbal Essences Naked Cleansing conditioner ingredients
Water, Stearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil, Mentha Arvensis Leaf Oil (Field Mint), Menthol, Fragrance, Glutamic Acid, Dimethicone, Phenoxyethanol, Benzyl Alcohol, Zinc Pyrithione, Citric Acid, Sodium Chloride, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone
Suave Naturals Conditioner Everlasting Sunshine ingredients
Water (Aqua) , Cetyl Alcohol , Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine , Fragrance , Lactic Acid , Potassium Chloride , Disodium EDTA , PEG 150 Distearate , 2 Bromo 2 Nitropropane 1 , 3 Diol , Methylchloroisothiazolinone , Methylisothiazolinone , Polysorbate 20 , Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Oil , Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract , Passiflora Incarnata Flower Extract , Yellow 5 (CI 19140) , Red 33 (CI 17200)
The Beauty Brains bottom line
It’s nice that Herbal Essences offers a lower cost option compared to WEN. But with a little smart shopping you can save even more money.