TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 3.3* Why: One reader describes her experience with this product as "one bottle, three people and a trash can." Translation: "My roommate gave this to me with no explanation and I was stoked. I kept using it even though it barely lathered and left my poor hair stripped of all moisture and impossible to style. Finally I gave it to my sister, thinking it would work better [for her]. She used it once and threw it out." Another reader also "really wanted to like this" and thought "maybe a fifth or sixth attempt may 'improve' the hair," but alas she continued to be left with "a greasy scalp by the end of the night, lifeless tired roots, and dirty hair that needed to be rewashed."
Of all the hair care products in your shower, your shampoo is a nonnegotiable necessity.
We all need a good lather to wash out the grime after a run or after we've employed multiple styling products. But a great shampoo (like the reader-approved hair care products on this list) should not only leave our hair soft, clean and smelling delightful, it should also help cut down post-shower styling time by priming strands for our desired style of the day.
But when the shampoo we choose to use ends up dirtying our hair instead of cleaning it, and dries it out instead of infusing it with the moisture we need -- that's when it ends up on our worst shampoos list.
Readers say these shampoos left their hair high and dry -- literally. Instead of creating soft strands, these hair care products left hair feeling "plastic-y," "waxy," and some even made readers fear that their "hair was going to fall out" due to the burning and itching feeling left behind on their scalps -- yikes! Some of these shampoos were so bad that they were "tossed in the trash before my hair was dry," or condemned to being used only on "a dog they didn't like." Curious to see which products our readers are referring to?
