Review: Dove Damage Therapy Intensive Repair Express Treatment

I got this product for review purpose through Buzzador.

What Dove says?

For 5 times less split ends*. It reconstructs hair and prevents split ends and breakage.

Did you know? Split ends and breakage show that hair is weakened not only outside but also inside. Dove advanced damage care and repair technology contains: patented Fibre Actives to penetrate deep in the hair to reconstruct it from within; micro moisture to nourish and help repair hair surfuce from root to tip. Leaves hair strengthened and resilient to future damage. (*shp and cond vs non cond shp)

Company

Dove is a brand owned by Unilever. Unilever does test on animals but according to their site they are trying to find alternative ways to test products. This was started last year so will see how long it takes them to stop testing on animals.

Dove is known well for its Self-Esteem Fund and Campaign for Real Beauty. They use models that aren't stick-thin on their ads (even if they are beautiful and not really the average people you see on street). And where the money goes to? "In the U.K. Dove is working with B-eat, the UK's only national charity supporting people affected by eating disorders, their families and professionals who treat them."

Where to buy it and how much for?

This is sold out in probably all shops that sell shampoos. At Boots the price is £3.36 and at Wahlgreens it's $4.49. It's not that expensive but depends on how much you actually need for your hair it might get a bit too steep price to pay. Of course if you use this as a once-a-week conditioner then the price isn't bad at all.

The packaging

The packaging is quite normal squeeze tube type for conditioners - with a flip top cap. It sits on its cap so if the product gets low it's still quite easy to get it all out by squeezing the tube.

Problem with packaging is that since it sits cap down the slit between cap and tube collects water if it's close to shower.

Tube is the size of 180ml.

Product itself

 I need to moisture my hands, sorry about that.

The products is quite thick white conditioner – almost gel-like consistency. I've seen many saying you only need a bit but I don't feel like I get it all over my hair if I only use a small amount so I use quite generously. That is one problem since of course then the product doesn't last long enough.

Scent is nice, can't really describe it. It isn't too normal conditioner scent but since I haven't really used a lot of Dove products can't compare it to their other product scents.

It left my hair feel thick but then again there was slight feeling that I still had product in my hair. Like I'd have used hair mousse or something. My hair did and does (I still use it every now and then) shine so outside it looks great. I'm just not sure how much it actually has made my hair better and how much is masking with silicones.

Really good thing that I found out is that I don't have to wash my hair as frequently as before starting to use this. I think it's the ingredients that are left behind in the hair but my hair looked better for longer.

Ingredients

All links take you to Finnish Unilever site where they tell you what the products do. Didn't find this from UK site.

Aqua Solvent

Cetearyl Alcohol Viscosity Controlling Agent

Dimethicone Hair Conditioning Agent

Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine Hair Conditioning Agent

Lactic acid

Behentrimonium Chloride Hair Conditioning Agent

Glycerin Hair Conditioning Agent

Parfum Fragrance

Dipropylene Glycol Humectant

Petrolatum Hair Conditioning Agent

Paraffinum Liquidum

PEG-180M Hair Conditioning Agent

Amodimethicone Hair Conditioning Agent

Trehalose Hair Conditioning Agent

Gluconolactone

Adipic acid Hair Conditioning Agent

Sodium sulfate Additive

Sodium chloride Viscosity Controlling Agent

PEG-150 Distearate Viscosity Controlling Agent

DMDM Hydantoin Preservative

Disodium EDTA Preservative

PEG-7 Propylheptyl Ether

Sodium Hydroxide

Cetrimonium Chloride Emulsifier

Phenoxyethanol Preservative

Benzyl Salicylate Fragrance

Butylphenyl Methylpropional Fragrance

Citronellol Fragrance

Hexyl Cinnamal Fragrance

Hydroxycitronellal Fragrance

Linalool Fragrance

CI 15985 Colourant

CI 19140 Colourant

A lot of silicone – at least compared to the fact that I nowadays try to stay away from silicones. Usually my hair doesn't work well with silicone since it makes my hair flat but with this one it didn't - tbh I think all that silicone made it the opposite, not sure if it was because it sort of stuck to my hair to make them feel more thick.

Would I suggest it or buy it again?

I doubt I will buy this again - just for pure reason that my hair felt like I had something extra in them after using this. The feeling I had when I ran my finger through hair spoilt it all - without the residue I probably would buy this again since otherwise it has seemed to work.

If you want something that makes your hair look healthy and gets your hair going longer between washes and don't mind if they feel bit weird then go for it.