L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Total Repair 5 Conditioner Review

I've picked this up a couple of times from the supermarket now along with the shampoo.

It's a great, convenient purchase, with nice packaging and a reasonable price tag. The conditioner smells lovely, nothing distinctive but strong enough to enhance the showering experience and last through the day.

It's pretty good at delivering it's promises too! I wouldn't say it's a 'total repair' for my coloured hair, but my hair does feel much better after use than before. My hair is much smoother and easy to manage, soft and shiny.

4/5 simply because there are better out there, but for a supermarket brand this is great.

My hair on your average day is dry at the bottom, oily at the roots and if not straightened - frizz central, I have fine hair but lots of it, it is a little damaged on the ends due to highlighting over the years but overall in pretty good condition.

This conditioner is the bomb dot com. I loved it, I love the scent, the consistency which isn't too thin or too thick which allows you to distribute it through your hair more evenly - but most of all I loved the results.

A pet hate of mine is conditioners that leave your hair feeling weighed down and almost greasy after you have washed it out, I found this product to rinse out really well and it left my wet hair feeling lighter if that makes any sense. When I went to dry and straighten my hair it was definitely easier than normal, my GHDs just slide over my hair with ease and the results were beautifully shiny, healthy feeling hair.

Personally for the price I think it delivers on it's promises, nothing short of an expensive trip to the salon is going to repair very damaged hair in 4 weeks. What I did find with this product is that I had a lot less hair fall out when washing, brushing and styling my hair, I also think that as it was so easy to style afterwards that in itself helps to protect from damage.

I wasn't expecting miracles from a $9 bottle of conditioner and I did not get miracles but it is definitely more healthier than when I started so I am overall happy with the results.

When first applying this it is nice and smoothing which I expect from a conditioner. The first time I used it I absolutely loved it and thought it might become my holy grail conditioner, as it left my hair so clean, soft, silky and just the best a conditioner had made my hair feel in a while, it also looked more smooth and shiny. But after a week of using it I'm not sure what happened but I think it just built up on hair and weighed it down. I still would recommend this though as it could work amazingly for someone else. Also it leaves your hair smelling great!

After pairing this with the shampoo, I absolutely love the smell. It is so delicious and really lasts in your hair. Definitely makes hair really shiny and like the shampoo its a really lightweight formula which I love. I did notice that like some really good quality conditioners, as soon as you put it in your hair in the shower it immediately feels smooth. I found that no matter how long I left it in, the result never changed. It made my hair shiny and soft, but my ends were still quite dry. I noticed a difference throughout the rest of my hair which was great, just not the part that needed repairing the most! One major problem I have is that I have quite long and thick hair, and I always concentrate conditioner on the ends, but I found that I had to use SO MUCH product just to do this. As in significantly more than other brands of conditioner. Coupled with the fact that these come in really small bottles, and I would run out of conditioner twice as fast as I would shampoo I would probably go for more cost effective options. The results were good however and I am hoping that with more prolonged use (i.e. months) I would notice the repairs start to take place!

You can also see some more detail in my review of the matching Shampoo but just to recap my main hair issues are: dry flaky scalp, fly aways, frizzy in hot weather, oily roots and dye damage, so pretty much anything and everything can go wrong with it. I’m currently trying to grow out the dye damage so supporting the new virgin hair coming through is my top priority. I normally wash my hair every second day and conditioning only every fourth out of those.

My hair took about a week to settle down with the first few days experiencing the new fluffiness that comes with changing to a new product but it soon calmed down into softness and smoothing down of my normal dry frizz. My hair had been seriously hydrated as I could see a visible difference after only a week of use and the problematic flaky patch even saw some improvement.

I used this conditioner together with its shampoo for this trial and have been thoroughly pleased with my overall results. While the shampoo has helped with balancing the oils in my hair and helping keep the scalp from drying out and worsening my flaky scalp patch, the conditioner has provided the finishing touch by smoothing it out and softening my hair to the point where I didn't need to tie it back into a ponytail to hide it. I have seen an overall reduction in all of my hair problems, not only does it sit better on my head in general but my hair is becoming easier to manage being much less prone to the ugly frizzy POOF that I normally get and a DRASTIC improvement on my usual fly aways. I couldn't tell you whether that’s due to hydrating my hair or a smoothing effect, but whichever it is it’s been working very effectively.

A few week son after seeing some encouraging results I also bought the leave in conditioner that goes with this specific range for some support on my in between wash days, I found this little addition meant I didn't need to use any hair product to keep my hair in control, I personally prefer having my hair natural and styled as little as possible especially while trying to grow it out and not cause further damage.

I will say that though there was an overall improvement in the dyed area of my hair, it is somewhat beyond saving as I've attempted salon treatments previously but to no avail, so if you have coloured hair I would avoid this one as it seems to work absolute wonders on my natural hair coming through but while there is a great improvement it couldn't quite pull off a complete miracle for my coloured hair areas so you if you do colour your hair I’d stick with a specialist product to support your hair and colour regime.

Using this conditioner after the matching shampoo my hair is so much softer and shinier. It's such a good match and works well with my long, thick, dry hair. It helps stop frizz and feels much healthier. My new supermarket shampoo/conditioner favourite.

I was lucky enough to trial this through the lovely Beauty Review themselves and I have mixed feelings with it.

So lets talk packaging, its a nice size and lasts quite a while, easy to get out of the tube as it is more a squeezey one compared to the shampoo bottle. Also it has a great lid that opens and shuts easily so no problem of spilling.

Formula: It has a nice silky feeling to it and smells beautiful, kind of like a bowl full of fruit but as with the shampoo, I couldn't quite put my finger on the fragrance.

Using the Conditioner: After using the Shampoo, I added a small amount to my hand as stated in the instructions into my hair. I massaged it into my hair to make sure it got through to the areas needed. It felt really silky and smooth and felt really good after I rinsed it out, taking away the dry feeling that the shampoo left me with.

Results: My hair did feel really soft and silky and when it dried (I always air dry my hair) and it did have a nice shine to it. You don't want to add too much conditioner to your hair as it can end up making your hair feel greasy. I found that I had to wash my hair a little more frequently with this duo, and I used only a little amount so I know that the feeling of needing to wash my hair more frequently with it was not due to using too much.

I gave it 4 stars because its was a nice conditioner, felt good and smelt heavenly but deducted stars for the fact I had to wash my hair more than I normally would.

After shampooing my hair i am left with clean but extremely knotty hair. this product left my hair feeling soft, smooth and gave it a great shine, it also smells amazing. the product was easy to spread through out my hair but i did find i needed to use quite a bit of it, i also noticed that when i squeezed it out every time too much product would come out causing some to go to waste, overall for the affordable price you cant go wrong, definitely one of the best drug store conditioners i have used

I have been using this conditioner for about three weeks now and although I do like it, its not the best damage control conditioner I have used. My hair is quite dry and coarse, especially the ends, because I used to blow dry my hair a lot which damaged my hair.

I didn't think much of this product when I first started using it. It was decent enough, but didn't help with the dryness in my hair. But as I continued to use the product more throughout the weeks I began to notice a change in my hair. I have been using this conditioner, as well as the shampoo, twice a week for three weeks. My hair has become softer, less coarse and silkier to touch. My hair is looking healthier and has a bit of shine to it, but I haven't yet noticed a difference to the strength of my hair. I usually use argan oil in my hair while its damp, but have stopped to test out the conditioner. I have found that the conditioner doesn't give the results I get from argan oi, but I expect that over time it will improve the condition of my hair.

The smell is very delicate and fresh, and the conditioner is easy to spread making it easy apply to your wet hair. The texture is very smooth and silky, what you would expect from a normal conditioner, and the consistency is a bit on the runny side. Overall, I enjoyed using this product and although its not the best conditioner I have used, I think its really good. I have noticed a change in my hair once I have been using the product for a while, and I would recommend this to anyone that has dry hair. The price of this product is really good and you get a decent sized bottle.

Like the shampoo, this conditioner has a nice smell and the bottle size is great - it lasted a long time. It definitely made my hair silkier and gave it a nice shine, but I'm not sure it was any stronger. I did however notice that my blonde highlights seemed to retain their brightness for longer using this conditioner as well as the shampoo which was a bonus.