WEN- Review, Rant & Alternatives

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Wen Cleansing Conditioner $32 for 16oz, purchased by me.
Show More Wen Cleansing Conditioner $32 for 16oz, purchased by me.

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Hello Guys & Dolls!
Wen is a "Cleansing Conditioner" that you use daily in place of using Shampoo or Conditioner. It's supposed to me gentler and healthier for your hair. Last week I was at Sephora and a friend who works there was raving about WEN so I figured I should try it.

And I'm sorry I did.

After looking up reviews and talking with friends who've tried it, I'm not alone. Wen appears to be a very polarizing product- people seem to love it or hate it. Count me in with the latter. Overall it made my scalp itchy, my hair and scalp felt oily, gave my hair static-electricity and managed to strip the color out of my hair, in the span of 5 days. Seriously. Go black and watch my haul from a week ago, and you'll see that my hair was more of a blue-purple, and the pink wasn't this light. Oh sure Haircolor fades, but I know the rate of my Haircolor fading, and this is abnormal- it's fading much faster than normal, and also in weird patches.

Since I bought the Wen 9 days ago I've used Wen 4 times, and washed my hair with my normal sulfate-free shampoo, and used my normal conditioner. When I stopped using it I noticed that my hair felt drier than it was before I used it. This Sunday, after using Wen a total of 5 days I went in to a normal bang trim and my stylist noticed I had more split ends than normal and asked what I'd done differently. I used Wen.

This is my experience- You might use Wen and have a totally fine experience, you might even love it! I wanted to tell my horrible experience to give credence to the people who say they've had terrible experiences with this product. Apparently some people have even experienced hair loss, and there are a lot of accounts of this. Whoa dude! have friends who LOVE IT, and I have friends who HATE it. Count me in the hate category. Back to Sephora it goes.

Weather or not you love Wen, it's expensive right? $32 for 16 oz and the company suggests you use 10-15 pumps. Oh lawd that's a lot of product. I want to offer you some alternatives. Of course you could go with the knock-offs like "Ren" or "One"- but since are a similar formula to Wen I don't think I'll try them. What I've used for years is just plain old conditioner to condition-cleanse. Some don't work as well as others for this, but I've found that Moisture Maniac from Bed Head works great. You can get it on Amazon for $23 for 25.36 oz, and trust me, you won't need 10-15 pumps.

The other option I want to present to you is using a great sulfate-free shampoo. Sulfates are the chemicals that makes traditional shampoo suds up, and gives you that squeeky-clean feeling. They also kill haircolor. My all-time fave sulfate-free shampoo is L'anza Healing Color Care. It is very gentle on my hair and I've noticed that my haircolor lasts much longer when I'm using this. There are many sulfate-free shampoos on on the market, this is just one I trust.

I want to hear from you! Have you tried Wen and if so, what do you think?

All products mentioned were purchased by me- and all options stated are my own based on my experience with the product.
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