Trying to pass off press promotion as truth is despicable. And over the years, my hair has become increasingly brittle, falls out, its thinning, it is half the length it used to be. And when did this start? About 30 years ago. I have to agree with others, it is pretty clear you are far from objective. Every time I need a new bottle of shampoo, all the labels have changed.
I give up. Its time to move on. The blatant boosterism on this site has really opened my eyes — to the fact that these days, Pantene is all sizzle and no meat. Because it has some immediate short-term benefits which add up over time to damage instead of help. That would most likely be mostly due to dimethicone and its kin, which coats the hair strands and make it look shinier and feel smoother.
I have been using Pantene for about 20 years now. In between the 20 years I have spent lots of money on salon brands to keep finding myself going back to Pantene. I have long thick hair and except for the normal strands of hair people lose I have not lost any unusual amount of hair.
Pantene keeps my hair feeling awesome and smelling great. Yes buying the expensive shampoos and conditioners work but I honestly thing Pantene works the best. Pantene is the best! Everyone is different if the product works for you great. We all are unique. I stopped using it an sought to find a solution. I used all different kinds of patentee pro v shampoo and conditioner and after a while of using it my hair became so hard to manage and after I shampooed and conditioned it was noting but knots left in my hair when I tried to brush my hair.
As a licensed cosmetologist, who has a passion for the science of chemistry and product formulation, I must agree that Pantene is a good product.
I work behind the chair 5 days a week, and see anywhere from 50 to 80 heads of hair a week. Also, remember that the wrong formula for you will never yield good results. I am also trained in how to properly use each item. So often my clients are using the wrong products, and using them incorrectly. They are made of the same ingredients, in the same factories at the same time.
The difference? For instance Purology is owned by loreal. The loreal everpure line is almost identical to purology. Read the label. Also, knowing that many ingredients have multiple names for the same exact thing helps. So, when you are doing a side by side comparison of ingredients….
It very well may be the same chem, with a different designation. Or one which is chemically going to function the same in the formula , but may have been changed due to viscosity, fragrance, availability at time of production, color, etc.
However, I think that to say that drugstore is just as good as salon would be false. There is a reason that professional hair products cost more. The ingredients are better. As someone who has used almost every brand out there, I get much better results with professional lines. Pantene, Garnier, and Tresseme all caused buildup in my hair. If you want to use pantene, I recommend using a clarifying shampoo at least once or twice a month.
I think there are many pros for using professional shampoo. A lot of drugstore brands list water as one of their ingredients. The more water, the more diluted the product, and the more product you will need to use to achieve the desired result.
This means you will end up purchasing more product. Depending on how quickly you go through a product, you will be spending as much as you would on a more concentrated, professional product.
Do the math. It could potentially be cheaper to use a professional line. Professional products typically have better ingredients. The same goes with some salon lines. But there are many professional products I would swear by. The products are vegan and sulfate free, and the fragrances come from the same company in France I believe that make the fragrances for Tom Ford.
This is a lot cheaper than brands like Kerastase or Shu Uemura. Oribe is another great line. But for someone who has colored hair blue ombre that is difficult to maintain , I swear by their colored hair line. The shampoo has ingredients that help preserve my color and protect my hair from harmful UV rays that cause fading. It also smells incredible, and leaves my hair soft and silky without weighing it down from residue.
It absorbs oils, allows me to add exactly how much texture I want to my blowout, and smells incredble. They often contain better ingredients and are more concentrated. However, there are plenty of drugstore products that work well and cost less. Hi Sydney.
Thank for taking the time to comment! We totally agree that some people love their salon brands more than drug store brands but the idea that salon products all use better ingredients and are more concentrated is is just a myth.
How do we know? I agree with Sydney, you do save a TON of money using professional products. The people who are using these professional products and saying they dont work are probably using them like they use Pantene, because pantene isnt as thick and concentrated as products like All Soft by Redkin for example, pantene runs out of the nozzle quick and clients will tend to fill their whole palm with shampoo and conditioner.
Many people dont even know how to use shampoo and conditioner correctly, no one EVER told them the right way. Many people use conditioner on their scalp which you are NOT supposed to do. Your scalp produces the oils your roots need to be nourished..
Its your ends that are damaged, which is why you never want to shampoo your ends, youll be stripping what little oils your ends were holding onto.
So even if you are using the pantene line, try that method of shampooing and see if it helps your frizzyness and product build up. Either way it will help you use less and spend less. I have been using Pantene for three to four months now. It leaves my scalp feeling great and my hair looking wonderful.
My daughter on the other hand says that it dries her hair out. I believe it has to do with the texture of ones hair and the different types of Pantene. You have to select the Pantene type that is for your hair. One thing I have observed in selecting the type for your hair is that it leaves your hair healthy. I had about every split end listed to be exact. So i did a bit of research and it could be the heat i use on my hair OR it can be that the pantene shampoo and conditioner is too strong for my hair and causing crazy split ends.
But everyone is different so if you like pantene then fine. Good for you. That means exactly nothing. The ingredient dimethicone is reason alone to avoid it.
The coating it leaves on hair makes a barrier which blocks natur moisture from getting into hair causing hair to dry out which leads to breakage.
Pantene is also full of sulfate which is harsh and drying on hair. Krista: Dimethicone does coat the hair and make it feel softer.
It takes heavy sulfates to get dimethicone out of hair and heavy sulfates strip hair of natural moisture.
If the product builds up in hair the buildup also traps pollutants from the environment into the hair. Dimethicone is just not a necessary ingredient. Not all silicones are bad. Water soluble silicones are best. They just coat the outside of hair to make it appear smoother and healthier.
My opinion is that a more natural ingredient list is best. What I like to look for on the bottle is that it says: Color safe sulfate free paraben free phthalate free Petroleum free PEG free Synthetic fragrance free Silicone free Organic is nice as well. We formulate every day as a part of our jobs and spend good money and time at school to learn how certain chemicals and ingredients will react in your hair. You really so get what you pay for.
An easy way to solve the problem of wondering if your hairdresser is b. The best thing you can do is find some one you trust and remember they have a license. Whatever damage someone like you has done to my hair.
I stopped going to salons decades ago. It seemed to take forever for all that damaged hair to grow out. You learn to parrot a few memorized sound memes that perpetuate myths about hair care. And hair care products on both sides of the shopping aisles use the same ingredients over and over again. You can find MANY products that are virtually identical. And half the time, even if they look like there are differences, it will turn out that they are just using different names for the same or functionally identical substances.
Often people cut out needed steps in order to budget their products. Also be careful who you are taking advice from. Is the person you are listening to an educated licensed cosmetologist or educated chemist or is it a well spoken marketer? Very long, very thick, often dry and frizzy, especially at the ends. Then I went back to cost-effective stylists.
I got the same pitch about how terrible Pantene was, on the occasions I admitted to using it. My preference was actually pre-reformulated Herbal Essences. My hair is so strange, that it confounds stylists who see hundreds of people every day, and everyone I meet who has hair tips for me — well, first, they never work, and second, it comes from the same perspective stylists have — that I must pay no attention to my hair for it to be so unruly. For my hair type? Pantene has produced the best results for me.
Are they fantastic results? Not necessarily, but it depends. My hair is still giant, crazy and unruly, but the truth is — so far, dozens and dozens of products later shampoo, conditioner, treatments, oils, anti-frizz serums, leave-in conditioners, dry shampoos, etc I never see any real change, other than my hair getting oily, rather than conditioned, from these products, or giving it an even weirder shape than it began with. So, I keep it simple, now. I use giant Pantene bottles from Costco.
I mean, maybe. My whole experience with having hair in general has been lackluster, haha. Does Pantene make my hair fall out? Probably not.
My hair just… falls out. I lose more hair in the summer, just like my cats do! Lastly… Shampoo is not the only thing that affects the quality of your hair. And, my friends who had thick and luxurious hair, not have thinning, brittle hair after having had kids.
So, I just wanted to throw that out there. Shampoo is by no means the only culprit for your hair woes. Hi Sharon. I read your comment! And thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. Thanks for being a fan of the Beauty Brains! The vitriol on this forum is astounding to me!
The same thing everyone does at their jobs in order to get a paycheck. Also, hair changes all the time. Age can also make hair fall out. Etc, etc. Oh, and lastly, in regards to your comments in the article about hair dressers — I think everyone is also taking that out of context. I used Pantene shampoo and conditioner for the very first time and I must say my hair feels really soft and silky after shower.
Anecdata does not equate to real data. Training and education are different. The amount of training for hairdressing and cosmetology is significantly less than for a research chemist. Each person has individual needs. Just as some people have iron deficiencies so will some people have excess iron, and each would have different nutritional needs because of that.
All humans have bias and we can manage if not eliminate it. Naturalistic fallacies and ad hominem attacks or shill attacks are logically useless and often used by those with self protecting or serving agendas such as anti-vax proponents some who directly profit but most who endanger public health.
Evaluating arguments and biases is a very good practice, but humans are often bad at critically examining their own biases and fallacies. I used Pantene for frizz and it was bad at leaving my oily scalp clean.
I have used many brands including lush but have noticed fairly similar performance. I lose a lot of hair in the shower, but I used to lose it around the house when I shampooed every day. As someone with finer but curly hair, I already know mine are probably strange.
My ends have definitely been in better shape since I started conditioning closer to daily and applying henna monthly. I would love to see you cover henna as a dye product because of its different mechanism than conventional dye and occasionally my research has seen conflicting information. My understanding is that there are mechanical and chemical ways to lift or smooth the hair cuticle, and that acids will smooth and bases will lift it but products also can tamp it down to reduce friction and tangling.
I am not product loyal so I try everything at least once. I have heard the rumour that Pantene is bad for your hair, will cause it to fall out.
It left a frothy slippery coating on my tub that required some serious astringent cleaning to get off. I thought that was kind of grim. But her hair looked great! I am not saying that Pantene is the worst company and that their product is junk.
First off, it leaves my hair soft and smelling great, which is nice. The only thing that is not so nice is how dry it leaves my scalp. I am constantly brushing my shoulders off to remove the fallen flakes out of my hair. I have very long hair and it becomes very difficult to manage if it gets dry. Once per week, I use the Shielo intensive Hair Mask and it has not only repaired my damage hair which use to always tangle but has also give them a smooth silky shine.
It appears as if there has been a coating of cream on your hair which is protective layer. I was told by my hair stylist that is a family friend that when she was in college they did a study about pantene, but I do not know what it was about. Let me get this straight. Taking a chance at what? I had really bad hair breakage last year — it was from getting too many perms and running my blow drier too hot — Im in a rush sometimes!
I found out my Pantene shampoo and conditioner was the problem that I was having with my hair. I suggest everyone not to buy the cheap Pantene shampoo and conditioner. And purchase a high-end product like matrix or redkin. These hair products works so well with my hair, you will not believe the results. Remember, if the product is cheap, the result will also be cheap. It tangles like crazy. Is this a valid suggestion? Some people feel that Pantene leaves a silicone residue on their hair.
I have very thick, nearly black wavy hair. I go to someone who specifically cuts to curls and textures. Then I cave and go back to Pantene and my hair feels so clean and full of body. My husband, who has very thin blonde hair, also prefers Pantene. My hair only feels as good as it does using Pantene when I use Davines, however they discontinued my preferred formula. I have been using Pantene for about 15 years now… I have thin long hair but very shinny and strong. I do not use conditioner in the shower because I always feel it weighs my hair down but I do use the Pantene detangler…… Works great!
Again excited to try something new but not really sure why……. Again I do love my Pantene! I think it depends on what type of hair you have. When I use Pantene — it does just that. Maybe for dry hair, Pantene is good. But for oily hair… it makes the problem much worse. They just care about making products people will buy. The stuff tastes delicious. I used to use every other shampoo, lets just say, my hair was frizzy,ugly,old,and split. I switched to pantene, and every single time after i use it, my friends ask me what kind of shampoo i use.
I started using it about 30 years ago and first bought it from a salon. I was so happy when it started to be sold in stores. The reason salons try to push their product is that they make a large percentage on those sales.
Barb — I do remember when Pantene was a salon product. I bought it and was blown away. It was amazing product that totally transformed my hair. It was super rich and concentrated and you only used a dab. I had never experienced such a unique product and the results were insane. It was like a whole different head of hair! Then after a few years of buying my special Pantene treat every year and raving about it to friends, they disappeared from the shelves in the little specialty hair section and I saw them become this massive presence on the mass produced product shelves.
I guess they got bought out and reformulated and the mass marketing began and they ended up as being the biggest selling drug store product we see today. What they ended up as now is a basic fairly decent product for the masses, and the most amazing thing about them are the ads.
I went from using a regular cheaper shampoo and conditioner to using Pantene and after only a few months my hair was falling out by the handful. I lost more then half my hair before I switch back to a less expensive brand and its been about 3 months and finally my hair has slowed down and is getting fuller again. Did you get your hair colored before you started using Pantene? If so, that could have been the cause of your hair loss.
I am baffled by the ignorance of this article. Just because you compare to other salon products that have these toxic chemicals does NOT make it ok! No offense but you do not know what you are talking about.
No plastics found in Pantene? Silicone is almost like a plastic creating shine but depleting the hair of moisture. Quaternium18 releases formaldehyde! There are no regulations in the beauty industry. Hi Serena. Actually silicone conditions hair and fights the effects of moisture loss.
Actually there are dozens of regulations for beauty products. I combined coupons with a sale on Pantene and bought a bunch of bottles to last my family a long while. About nine months ago I started getting itchy patches on my scalp that would scab up. Six months ago I noticed that my brush was very full of hair after brushing. After my husband commented on how thin my hair looked I started taking vitamins, thinking that was the cause of my hair issues. No change. That was a few months ago and my itchy scalp is gone and the hair loss stopped almost immediately after switching shampoos.
Count me another satisfied user of Pantene conditioner, since the s. The silicones leave my hair slippery and shiny and easy to comb. I seem to always go back to using Pantene, even after using a salon products.
Well, I am a stylist and I believe in people having healthy hair not just to sale products. But 9 out of 10 of my clients with wavy or curly hair that used Pantene at home, hair has broken off in several places or is very dry. I had a young Indian girl come in the beginning of the summer with a head full of hair, just beautiful.
But, by the end of the summer, she came back for another trim and her hair was falling out by the hand full. I asked her what she was using and it was Pantene. She is just one out of many that I have noticed this problem. I do notice that it is fine for people with naturally straight hair. I would never recommend this product to anyone. If it works for you great.
Not a fan and will never be. So, i switched to Pantene color revival. I switched back to something as simple as suave, and that greasy feeling disappeared. I also have very thick hair, and some shampoos do mat it down, so maybe pantene works better for thin hair.
I use pantene a lot as I have a lot of thin wavy to curly hair. I grew it out for over a year without cutting it. Colored the roots, let the streaking grow put to nice ombre. I though used my straightener a lot before I met my current guy.
But my hair grew out very damaged. I used mostly salon shampoos enjoy, tedken but did not notice much change. I started using patene for color more often and suave. Fir conditioner, I use aran oil type, sometimes Austin 3 minute…but always a various types of de Frizzell Paul Mitchell, pantene etc , plus orange oil.
I use mostly on the ends. Btw, I have tried not washing my ends. They get greasy. I concentrate on the scalp for shampoo. I will keep it right past my shoulders and use pantene and my regime conditioners, orange oil, cellophane every once in awhile. I streaked and did my own roots before I got it cut.
Afterwards, it looks very natural. However it looks pretty good now. Although others may not have had the same experience, I used it for 4 weeks. It left a gooey type of trail on my hairline. I use GKhair moisturizing shampoo that is sulfate free for my dry, brittle and dull hair that are so prone to fall and break so easily.
I use this very shampoo for the past 3 years and it did wonders on my dull hair. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is suffering from dry, brittle and dull hair and wants to have beautiful, healthy and shiny hair. Think this must be as important as the ingredients. The pH is about 6. The ingredients are really much more important. Sir i am a boy of 18 years Have never straighten my hairs nor i use to apply any gel or anything which damages hair But still, whenever i use to shampoo, i see around hairs on my hand and maybe other hairs may fallen, and whenever i apply oil Dabur almond hair oil i use to apply it daily at night, i notice around hairs on my hand and some hairs use to come on my shoulders So can pantene stop this hair fall?
Or please suggest anyother shampoo that can help me Coz i am seriously worried about my hairs I have almost straight and little dry hairs and my hairstyle is, i use make my hair stand from both the sides. The only kind of hair fall that Pantene can stop is that caused by damage like brushing and combing. Anyhow, just wanted to thank the Randy Schueller for providing help to consumers.
I appreciate the website. Keep up the good work! Hi Randy. Im new to Pantene and just love it! Would you happen to have any suggestions on what to buy? I have curly frizzy dry hair and sometimes straighten it. Im looking for shampoo and conditioner, leave in conditioner, shiny serum, and long lasting scent for my hair!
Are these the right things I should be looking for? Do I need all of these things? And what Pantene products do you suggest? My hair was always short, never got it much longer than to my shoulders.
Finally, couple years ago I buzzed it all off, deciding to start over—no coloring, straightening, or blow-drying—just let it grow. It reaches the middle of my shoulder blades now, and Pantene is no longer working. My curls have become unmanagable, frizzy, and so consistently breaking I nearly cut all my hair off again due to how frustrating it had been.
After asking me what shampoo I used and hearing I used Pantene, she did tell me they used plastics. I needed to look into it. I would buy purely from natural stores if I could afford to. But, Pantene is just fine. I used pantene for almost 20 years..
I have baby fine hair and have been using Pantene Shampoo and Conditioner. My hair looks and feels thicker. I think my hair is addicted to Pantene. Now my eyes and brain hurt from an information and opinion overload… Lets just simplify the facts. Artificial chemicals are bad for humans, chemicals are man made poisons. Some chemicals can harbour bacteria that is completely alien to earth and exist only because of human interference with nature eg: diesel and petrol can harbour bacteria once the chemical stabilizers break down or evaporate.
Any cosmetic products are capable of the same bacterial breakdown. But at the end of the day some people are fitness and health fanatics and get cancer in their twenties, some people smoke, drink heavily and are exposed to highly toxic environments at work every day of their life and the live forever. If you want silky hair that smells like a cupids armpit use pantene.
The world is driven by greed and lies but at the end of the day my hair and my Rottweiler smell like cupids armpits and shine like optic fibres. I have accepted Jesus Christ into my life as my Savior so a bit of chemical here or there will only get me by His side faster anyway.
This world is temporary and anyone who has bothered to see what the Bible says will know these are the final days and the only thing that matters is the Salvation of your soul!
Thanks for stating your beliefs about beauty products. Thank you. Used as a surfactant and foaming agent, sodium laurel sulfate is a strong skin irritant and produces nitrosamine, a substance linked to cancer formation. Nitrosamine can be formed in the production of some surfactants but the levels are carefully controlled so this is not an issue. I use to like Pantene alot.
It was always a staple hair wash to grab in the store until recently. I had been experiencing what I can only describe as chronic dandruff. My scalp would build up large amounts of skin that were highly visible and peel like a bad case of dandruff. I was always unsure why as I wash my hair at least 3 times a week the recommended amount and even sometimes with anti — dandruff shampoos.
All of this happened when I was using Pantene. I began to turn to the fact that maybe it was my trusty hairwash causing these problems. So I switched hair wash and within days my dandruff case was completely gone. I could wear my usual style of a part down the middle and my head no longer resembled a snow globe. I tried a few more different hair washes and no dandruff.
So i switched back to Pantene just to see and YUP! The next morning I woke up with that same build up on my scalp. I have been using Pantene for at least fifteen years. I have hair to my waist that is extremely thick. I have always received compliments on my hair for the look, smell and feel of it. I have been to salons where the stylists have tried to convince me on how bad it was. It never phased me. I would go home and go right back to my Pantene. I have had no desire to try any other product because I have been so happy with Pantene.
Unfortunately, something has changed in the last few months. The more I shower, the oilier it looks. I actually called the store where I bought it, thinking it had been tampered with. I explained that I believed kids had mixed baby oil in it. After buying several different bottles with the same result. I am just hoping my hair recovers and thickens back up.
I use the Pantene charcoal shampoo and conditioner and they work great, I think the brand turned over a new leaf with this line and it has no wax or silicone. Everything in moderation…. I have the worst time with build up and crunchiness. Then I found a Pantene that appeared to work for me. I tried giving up the Pantene and my hair was so dry the ends with break off by merely touching my hair.
It took lots of trims and growing out to get my curls back. My hair is dull and lifeless after using Pantene as it was 15 years ago when I used it.
I know, there are a lot of you out there that use it and love it. A few reasons: A The waxy texture left on my hands after handling hair that has weeks, months, to years of Pantene use on it. C Being able to comb through it while wet but after blow-drying, hair gets baked together from whatever substance is in there and you struggle to detangle it..
I think what you mean is…. I used Pantene and in no way do my hands feel any waxy. Hair is actually manageable. And no… There are no dust as you claim. I have been using Pantene because I like the way if makes my hair feel better than the more expensive brands. Your hairstylist can do a pre-color clarifying treatment or you can use something like Paul Mitchell Shampoo Three at home. I use it once every other week sometimes more often, sometimes less often.
Professionally, I just give my clients my opinion about products, their routine, coloring, etc. The reason why people think Pantene makes their hair feel good is because of the wax deposits. Steaming, moisture dripping, not lifting properly and toner doing absolute bleep all. So true! Have you ever seen a video of someone literally scraping the buildup off the hair from using Pantene?! I use to like Pantene alot. It was always a staple hair wash to grab in the store until recently. I had been experiencing what I can only describe as chronic dandruff.
My scalp would build up large amounts of skin that were highly visible and peel like a bad case of dandruff. I was always unsure why as I wash my hair at least 3 times a week the recommended amount and even sometimes with anti — dandruff shampoos. All of this happened when I was using Pantene. I began to turn to the fact that maybe it was my trusty hairwash causing these problems. So I switched hair wash and within days my dandruff case was completely gone. I could wear my usual style of a part down the middle and my head no longer resembled a snow globe.
I tried a few more different hair washes and no dandruff. So i switched back to Pantene just to see and YUP! The next morning I woke up with that same build up on my scalp. I had the same experience with patches of thick skin buildup I thought I had horrible psoriasis but dermatologist said nope!
My hair was also coming out by the handfuls. Smooth, full hair and healthy scalp again. NOT worth the damage to your scalp or hair…. Hair that has been in contact with WEN products feels completely different from everyone […].
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It rather made my hair softer and smoother. I did buy the conditioner pack, so that should have played a role in it. When using a shampoo and conditioner combined, it often works better than using one of the products.
Many people in the hair community have been recommending this to me. At first, I was a bit hesitant, but after thinking about it for some weeks, I gave it a try. Step 4: Let the conditioner sit for about 3 to 4 minutes before rinsing it out with lukewarm water.
That can be the case for many people if they use the wrong shampoo for their hair type. Taking care of your hair is extremely important. You want to use the right products.
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