Review: Tresemme Vitamin C Deep Cleansing Shampoo

I remember some time back, there were these ads all over the telly on this new brand of hair products called Tresemme. This was waaaay before I had even met Kahani and yet I remember going, "I wanna try that.."

So to cut a long story short, I did end up buying a 500ml bottle of that Deep Cleansing Shampoo. And what started out as a mere "wanna try" has climbed up all the way to Holy Grail (HG) status, as far as deep cleansing shampoos are concerned.

Why haven't I reviewed this earlier? I have no idea... so read on to find out why I love it so much.

So anyway, a couple of years and about three (or four) bottles later, I'm still sticking with this shampoo. Why? Because it does what it says it'll do. It cleanses, it smells pretty good (despite the fact it's supposed to be citrusy), and it's cheap. What's not to love?

A little word of warning though. When I say it cleanses, it REALLY cleanses. So I'd stick to using this only for that weekly or fortnightly deep-cleansing session if I were you. It says "Gentle enough for every day use", but not on me, no thank you.

But how I actually like to use it is to mix it with another shampoo. If I feel my scalp's a little oilier than usual, or if I feel my hair could use a little lift, what I do is I mix my Tresemme with, say, my Dove Daily Care shampoo. That way, I don't feel it drying out my hair, and I get the deep-cleansing action too. No idea if I'm the only who uses it this way, but it works for me. To each her own, right?

And then I'd proceed to give my locks a little bit of love from John Frieda. And my hair will be right bouncy clean and lovely. It seems to add just a wee bit of volume too, since my hair is no longer weighed down with all that gunk.

Now you might ask, Why the need to deep-cleanse?

Well, although I don't put a million products in my hair, the Dove shampoo, plus the conditioner, the occasional mask, the Frederic Fekkai, PLUS the lovely Malaysian humidity, can cause quite a bit of gunk to sit on your scalp. Unlike a normal shampoo, which might function to moisturise etc, a deep-cleansing shampoo works by removing all that product build-up. And this one definitely does that.

So there you go. A nice clean scalp so you can start applying your hair products all over again.

Yes, because we women are complicated like that.

I've tried one or two other deep-cleansing shampoos, but they didn't quite make the mark. Call me shallow, but there's something terribly unsettling about bright green opaque shampoos. (The Swamp Thing, anyone?) I'll take my translucent Tresemme any day. So until I find something better, this shampoo HG by me.

Seriously, for about RM14 a bottle, what's not to love?