Great looking hair that is really healthy and clean makes you feel better about yourself and makes you look healthier and cleaner to other people. Keeping your hair looking this way is important, and using good quality hair products such as shampoo and conditioner is vital. But when it’s time to buy your hair care products, how do you know which are the best ones to use?
High street products seem much more affordable and therefore giving you better value for money because of the low cost of high street hair products. Branded premium salon products can appear pricey with the average 300ml shampoo bottle priced at 5 times the cost ($20/10) of a regular high street shampoo ($4/2).
When you weigh up cheap hair care products and professional salon hair care products and compare them on price alone, cheaper hair care products seem to be far and away the obvious choice, costing 1/5th the price of salon products, giving you what appears to be 5 times the amount of product for the same money.
When you look more closely at the comparison between the effectiveness and the quality of high street hair products and salon hair products, does the comparison end up in the favour of cheap hair care products, or do the cheaper high street products turn out to be a false economy?
To see if cheaper high street hair products provide more value for money in both the short and long term when compared with professional salon hair care products, we made the decision to test them both to see how each of the hair products compare against one another in a quality test.
We tested a 300ml bottle of shampoo from the high street and a 300ml salon professional shampoo. With the high street product a 50ml application is standard to clean hair where with the professional product a 10ml application was all that was required to clean the hair to the same standard.
Needing 50ml per application, a 300ml bottle of cheap high street shampoo would give you about 6 applications. But using only 10ml per application, the professional hair care shampoo gives you approximately 30 applications in a 300ml bottle. Comparing the prices, the price per application of the professional salon shampoo is $0.66c/0.33p per application, and the cheap average high street shampoo worked out at $0.64c/0.32p per application.
Summary: at first glance, cheaper high street hair products appear to be a better buy and provide value for money, but on closer scrutiny there is but a hair’s breadth of difference in the price of salon hair products, and cheap hair products. When you add the better quality and effectiveness of salon products into the equation, the salon products turn out to be much better value for money. Q? Why would you use anything other than the highest quality hair care products on your hair?
I believe that if you have beautiful hair, it will help you to boost your self confidence. I think it will be more good, if you will receive high quality work with cheap price. Thank you for the post!
To have great hair, go for professional hair products for they are proven effective. Do not take risk on cheap hair products that has not proven anything, for this might cause disaster to your hair that cannot be undo.
The most recognizable in women's look is hair which means maintaining it is a must. If you really want to make it more beautiful, look for hair products with proven result.
Your hair is one of your finest assets. Why risk that on products that can cause more damage than they do good? Salon effective hair care is what everyone should have in mind when buying hair care products.
Hair is important to all people because it adds beauty. Well, i agree that you need to search for the best when it comes to hair products.
Healthy hair adds beauty in your over all look, quality hair care product is necessary for having healthy and beautiful hair. I would like to recommended use hair care products by professional salons rather than using cheap hair products for saving penny as healthy and shiny hair is liked by everyone.
Great article Jennifer and you are bang on the money. Cheaper brands create a false economy, as with a high quality shampoo you only need around to use around the size of a 10 pence piece for each application, as opposed to 4/5 times as much with a high street brand. You will also save yourself money on in salon treatments, as your hair will be in better condition.