The 'poos and con's of your routine!

[kwaniesiam]

I mix and match brands of products, despite them generally being formulated to work together. Anyone else do the same? I find that if one works for me, the other one doesn't. Right now I love Giovanni shampoo and clarify every once in a while with Suave. For conditioner its either Burt's Bees raspberry and brasil nut or some form of Nature's Gate.

[spidermom]

I used to buy my products in pairs, but I was always running out of conditioner before I ran out of shampoo. In recent months, I've decided to ignore the "formulated to work together" thing and have a couple of different brands in my shower/bath area.

[Riot Crrl]

I don't know if this counts but I just don't buy the shampoo, lol.

[Starr]

I buy matching shampoo and conditioner, but I only use the conditioner and my DH only uses the shampoo- so I have yet to figure out if they actually work together.

[Anje]

I mainly just buy conditioner. Last time I bought shampoo, I grabbed it by mistake thinking it was a huge bottle of condish! (Well, it's the Suave coconut shampoo, and it's opaque!)

DH is discovering CO washing and shampoos maybe once a week, COing most days. I think he's got some WR stuff, but he's decided that he likes my conditioner. He uses it up faster than I do! Oh well -- guess I just need to stock up some more.

[Curlsgirl]

I use all different kinds but right now mainly my new Aveda shampoo for colored hair and for conditioner either Dove if I want a cone or Giovanni SAS or VO5 strawberries and cream and a couple others. So yeah I never hardly go with the same line for both.

[Riot Crrl]

I mainly just buy conditioner. Last time I bought shampoo, I grabbed it by mistake thinking it was a huge bottle of condish! (Well, it's the Suave coconut shampoo, and it's opaque!)

I totally almost did that the first time I went to buy Suave coconut. Good thing I'm a label reader. I was like "Whoa, this conditioner is full of sulfates, what is going on?"

[girlcat36]

I never buy matching pairs, or entire product lines. I don't know why.

[harley mama]

I don't use shampoo as a rule. But, when I was using it, I didn't worry about
matching brands. I liked to try new stuff.

[cobblersmaid]

I don't match. I am using Trader Joe's refresh shampoo and Herbal Essences Hello Hydration conditioner.

[roxyhead]

I have so many different ones they're slowly taking over my mother's bathroom again. Not that she doesn't have 46 thousand products of her own...despite having about an inch and a half of hair herself. (my shower sucks, so I always use hers, much better) I mix and match everything, though the Burt's Bees stuff mentioned above and my Nature's Gate stuff are favorites in the conditioner department. My mother got some Ojon cone/sulfate free shopping channel stuff that actually might be worth swiping for a change, but that's about the only time I can recall recently using the same brand shampoo and conditioner. My Au Naturel shampoo doesn't even have a matching conditioner, at least that the store I got it at sold.

[lady_hero]

Right now I'm using the Refresh Head & Shoulders shampoo about twice a week and I CO with Dry Scalp Head & Shoulders condish everyday. Yeah, I've got funky scalp issues. I wish I could go SLS-free and use all natural ( I like to eat organic and I buy hormone-free meats) but, alas, my scalp goes nutso when I use anything but H&S :-/

[Ohio Sky]

I've always used matching shampoos and conditioners just becasue... well, because how do you figure out if one works better than the other, really?

It also has about || that much to do with the fact that I'm completely neurotic.