L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Total Repair 5 Conditioner Review

First impressions: Has quite a strong smell and a little too strong for me. I prefer fruity scents so I wasn't "in love" with this.

I found that I needed a lot of conditioner to get good coverage, well more than I am used to.

My hair felt soft and smooth and very silky after use and was very manageable. I did notice my hair was a lot shinier than prior to use which was a big plus however with shinier my hair was also a lot more frizzy. I even tried swapping the order and applying shampoo after I had used the conditioner by found this didn't make a different in this aspect, in fact it make it worse.

I found this conditioner was a great match with its conditioner. My hair loved this product and I felt it really made a difference in the texture of my dry and damaged hair. Although the downside to this product is it's consistency as I found it quite thin which meant I felt I needed to use more product.

This conditioner is thick and easy to distribute throughout the ends of my hair, but I feel I need to use more than other brands. It doesn’t have a potent or overpowering smell, but it doesn’t have a nice smell either. My hair does look shinier than previously, but it doesn’t feel stronger or fuller in any way. As with the shampoo, the price is reasonable, but just a bit too much for my liking. I am happy enough with the product to continue the bottle until it is finished, but I probably wouldn’t run out and buy it.

The conditioner complemented the shampoo nicely. The scent was milder but still lingered enough to be nice. After conditioning my hair it was left soft and smooth, it still had a few tangles but nothing a quick comb couldn't fix. I would purchase this product again.

I was super excited to trial both this and the matching shampoo, upon receiving the product the bottle was attractive and a decent size. After shampooing I used this, I found it had a very unpleasant fragrance, not like the shampoo which smelt lovely. Applying to the ends of my hair I felt like I needed quite a large amount, even with the product on my hair it didnt feel coated or smooth as a conditioner usually feels, after rinsing it out, my hair felt awful, worse than before washing it. Once dried etc my roots felt silky and smooth but the ends most definitely did not, I gave this conditioner a go for almost two weeks but have had to stop using it as my hair feels terrible and I am having a large amount of residue left on my scalp (yes it is completely rinsed out) I'm not sure whether this is from the conditioner or the shampoo though. I really wanted to love this product but sadly I will not be using it again...

After using the shampoo, I thought this would be exactly what my hair needed to repair the damage the shampoo had done to my hair, but I was wrong. I didn't get the softness, the silkiness, or the moisture I had hoped would be absorbed back into my hair despite me having to use quite a bit of product for every use. My hair didn't even feel smooth when coating my hair in this conditioner, which I thought was a little odd as most conditioners make your hair feel silky soft when applying it. I couldn't even run my fingers through my hair, there were too many knots/matted bits all through my hair. So when it was time to brush my hair, I was expecting it to be quite a difficult task, and sure enough it was. It was rather painful, my hair was being ripped out and it was breaking, leaving me with short damaged strands of hair. It got to the point where I just had to stop brushing. It left my hair smelling lovely though but unfortunately that's the only positive thing it's done for me.

I only tend to use normal conditioners on the ends of my hair so that is what I did with this one, I found that this wasnt as easy to spread through my hair as some other conditioners but the results were good. The shampoo its self didnt make my hair much silkier to touch but with the conditioner there was a noticable difference. The condition of my hair has improved not drastically but so far a small improvement and im confident over time I will notice more improvements. The product also is very pleasant to smell. There is hope for my hair now after years of hair dryers and straightening irons. I will definitely continue to use this duo and will also be trying the hair mask to!

I like this product to its smells great and i believe has helped my hair immensely it soft and silky i will definately continue to use this brand i have never felt so good about my hair

This conditioner is lovely and creamy but not so thick that it feels like a treatment or mask. It has a nice smell, nothing too strong or offensive. I smooth it through the ends of my hair first, then put any excess product gently over my roots. I find that it leaves my hair extremely soft and easy to manage. I also feel like it makes drying my hair faster and straightening my hair easier because it is so easy to manage. Love this in combination with the matching shampoo!

For reference, my hair is fine and thin and fairly heat damaged as I blow dry and straighten it every day.

After reading the blurb of total repair 5 i thought this would be exactly what my hair needed to bring it back to life, sadly i was wrong

total repair 5 conditioner left my hair feeling straw like and feeling drier than what i went into the shower with :/ I needed quite alot of product to distribute through my shoulder length hair, even when adding more my hair still felt knotty and straw like which is stranger because normal conditioners leave my hair feeling quite silky.

the packaging, smell and labeling hoowever i was impressed on, other than that i think i will go back to using my organic care shampoo and conditioner

i have dry damaged hair and saw no results in 2 weeks, bottle only has a litter left in it as well which i never go through a conditioner in 2 weeks