Product Review: WEN Hair Care Products

All of my life, I have had dry, frizzy hair. Sometimes it's been thick, and other times it's been thin, but my hair has always had the same texture. I've tried all sorts of anti-frizz products. Everything from shampoos and conditioners to treatments and tools. I've straightened my hair and curled my hair, and the results always end the same way. My hair is still dry, it's still frizzy, and it's still unmanageable.

A couple months ago, I was given a bottle of WEN shampoo to try. What could it hurt? I'd seen the infomercials on television several times. If you haven't heard of WEN shampoo, it is a product created by the famous Hollywood stylist, Chaz Dean. It is a product that cleans and conditions your hair at the same time, but with the consistency of a conditioner. According to Dean, the suds that come from your typical shampoo damage and break your hair, and WEN is supposed to do the opposite, putting back in the moisture and repairing the damages your store-shelf shampoo has done to your hair. He claims the WEN products work on both men and women, any age, any hair type, style, or problem, and it replaces all of your hair care products. He definitely made it look intriguing on television, but the only thing holding me back was the price. When given the bottle of WEN, however, I had no choice but to give it a shot.

The WEN shampoo is pretty pricey, and comes in a small pump bottle. It's recommended that you start with 10 to 15 pumps and build your way up depending on how thick your hair is. For a small, expensive bottle of shampoo, that is quite bit. I don't have very thick hair, and the bottle didn't last me very long.

Did it work? Did it make my hair shinier and softer and more manageable? Was I as impressed as the people on the infomercial?

The first wash definitely made my hair feel soft, and it even looked a bit shinier in the next couple of days. As time went on, though, the appeal of WEN shampoo wore off. My hair wasn't as soft as it had been, didn't shine quite like it had at first. That's not to say that the WEN products aren't decent products or that other people haven't gotten the desired effect out of them, but for the price and the amount you get, I didn't find it necessary to keep using the product when the bottle was gone. My hair didn't improve drastically enough in the weeks that I used it.

Everyone is different, though. If you would like to learn more about the WEN products or try for yourself and see how it does for your hair type, you can find more information at www.wenhaircare.com.