When I opened up the mountain of products;
and yes it was a mountain, I received at the #Livebloggers event on
the 11th of Sept. I was super ecstatic to see that a AreaH20 Shampoo and Conditioner set had been included in the goodie bag especially after
reading a review about the AreaH20 Set on Fleur the Force the day before and thinking I would how well that would work on
my hair.
AreaH20 is a brand new haircare brand that
tailors its product to the water type of the area you live in. London is a hard
water area, but the further north you go the softer water gets. If you aren’t
too sure about your water type for your area, there is a cute little map on the
back of the packaging to help you out (so as long as you passed GCSE geography
you are fine).
After shampooing my hair felt very light
and squeaky clean and the conditioner works like a
deep conditioning balm (and we all know how much I love my deep conditioning
hair products). As I detangle my hair as I wash and condition it, I didn’t have
a detangling problem and overall I think this did a good job.
The only thing I didn’t really like about
this shampoo & conditioner set is its smell. I prefer my shampoos to smell sugary
sweet and this has a very natural and cool scent; which would be great as a
skincare fragrance, but I’m just not a huge fan.
Overall I actually think this did a better
job on my natural chemically straighten afro hair than on my human hair extensions,
but I’m going to wait a few more weeks before I subscribe to that train of
thought. I think I would class the shampoo as being in between a good clarifying shampoo and a moisturising shampoo as it doesn't completely nourish hair or strip all the oils from it. I’m going to start using this on my natural hair as a replacement for
my normal clarifying shampoo from Concoctions and see how that goes.
What do you think of this shampoo and its formulation to
work with your area’s water? Is it another gimmick or something that would
actually have a big improvement on your hair?