Despite being evangelical about eating natural, unprocessed food, and using as much natural skincare as possible, I have always been a little more dubious about natural hair-care. I have spent the last ten years tormenting my unruly with heat-styling, bleach and colour, so don’t like to take risks
Any natural beauty buff worth their Dr Hauschka will know that you can get good natural hair-care from the likes of Aveda, but at a cost, and while more budget-friendly Lush hair-care smells amazing (it’s worth using Daddy O or the Godiva shampoo bar for their scents alone), their results are not great.
This week I tried TIGI’s recently launched eco-friendly range, ‘Love, Peace and the Planet’, which seems to be just the answer to my dilemma. Each product is priced at around £10, and I was impressed at how well it lived up to my expectations of a salon brand. Here’s my verdict on the range’s key products:
Scented with cranberry, orange and mint, both shampoo and conditioner smelt natural, without smelling ‘herby’, as some eco-products do, as well as having a refreshing, citrus aroma. The shampoo create a very rich lather, probably due to the removal of un-natural ingredients, but still left my hair feeling clean. The conditioner was satisfyingly rich, and even though my hair didn’t have that just washed silky feeling when wet (which is usually a result of silicon), once dry, it was shiny and light-weight. Win.
Because my hair is naturally dry, I always use extra conditioning products or serum before and after drying. This leave-in had a lightweight, gel consistency, which meant it didn’t weigh hair down even slightly. Post-drying, it took away any fluffiness and left hair with a bright sheen. The bakewell tart scent was also a massive bonus.
As you would hope from a product designed to give hair bounce, this lavender-scented thickener was very light in texture and didn’t leave a sticky residue on hair. While my hair did feel like it had a bit more life to it after using this product, it certainly wasn’t bursting with volume, although perhaps if I had done a proper blow-dry rather than a rough-dry, the results would have been better.