Follow-up to the Vitamin Shampoo on sale at Walgreens...

If you read this post, you know that I was super excited about these Vitamin Shampoos currently on clearance at Walgreens (normally $7.49 each, now reduced to $1.89, 13 oz). If your local Walgreens carries this line (and apologies to those who can't find this at their locations!) then you might want to consider picking up a bottle or two.

For the past few days I've been using Vitamin Moisturizing Noni Berry and Lemongrass shampoo and conditioner, and I am truly impressed.

First of all, for a sulfate-free, paraben-free shampoo, I had NO problem at all with getting this formula to lather, and it created a rich, thick lather to boot! It smells heavenly, and I swear to you, of all the sulfate-free shampoos I've tried (and I've tried a ton) this ranks right up there with one of the best in terms of how clean it gets my hair. A lot of the time, if a shampoo lacks SLS, it lacks the oomph needed to really get in there and clean oily hair (my hair is super oily at the roots). But this one? Not a problem. My hair is ridiculously clean when I use this stuff, and even on day two it still retains that clean feeling.

As for the Vitamin Noni Berry and Lemongrass conditioner? It also rocks (and actually smells even better than the shampoo, which I didn't think could be possible) but I do want to warn anyone who needs deep conditioning that they're not going to get it with this product. Its conditioning properties are on the mild side, but over the weekend I deep-conditioned my hair (my hair is very dry at the ends and color-treated) so I needed a lighter conditioner on the days following. And this one fit the bill perfectly. It is making my hair so light and springy, I can't even tell you how happy I am with how my hair has been looking these days (even during these rainstorms we've been having Southern California this week).

I am also incredibly impressed with how SHINY my hair has been while using these products. I tried my best to capture the shine of my hair in these pics--hope you can see it. And FYI, my hair can look really dull if I use the wrong products, so I want to tell you that it's not naturally this shiny:

Ha! You can even see my Vitamin Shampoo bottles in my shower in this pic. :) And apologies for the dumpy brown hoodie I'm wearing--it's COLD in my house right now.

In this pic I just wanted to show you that, even though I just let my hair air-dry when I took this, my hair managed to have volume and bounce after using this products. With a lot of SLS-free shampoos, my naturally wavy hair ends up flat or totally frizzed out when I let it air-dry. Not with Vitamin Noni Berry and Lemongrass! Now I understand why that women bought 10 bottles of each before she left on her vacation (that's a story I mentioned in my original post, in case you missed it).

I obviously cannot speak for everyone and if your hair is different in texture, dryness or length than mine, these might not be the products for you. But if your hair is close to mine, you might want to check them out while they're just $1.89 a bottle (but hurry because, according to my local Walgreens employee, they're going to be at this price until they're gone, which means someone could come in and swipe them all).