SilkPro Oil Control Shampoo Review

WHAT IS IT: SilkPro Oil Control Shampoo

THE PRODUCT(S):

SilkPro Oil Control Shampoo: Enjoy an invigorating experience as you cleanse your hair, while getting early treatment for hair loss. 11 Eastern and Western herbs are specially extracted and combined with Juniper Extract to cleanse your hair deep down, and remove excess sebum and build up.

There was this light minty and herbal scent as soon as I opened up the sample. And the shampoo itself is a light pinkish/purplish color with a clear base. Suds well, and also washes away easily.

VERDICT: As soon as I cut open this sample, I was hit by a light minty and herbal scent. It wasn't the overpowering type though, just light enough to get you interested. Especially if you tried to open up a retail bottle at the Supermarket and take a sniff or two, the scent will probably persuade you to buy it on the spot without a doubt. And the shampoo itself is actually in a light pinkish/purplish color, despite it being a clear-based shampoo. All in all, the scent is pleasing and pleasant by my own standard.

But despite the minty scent, it didn't actually give this cooling and tingling while I was using this shampoo on my hair. (Yes, I do have greasy scalp/hair, but luckily, it's more on a once-in-a-blue-moon moment) Although I do admit that just from 1 wash, my hair doesn't look greasy nor oily, and yet still feel so soft and manageable at the same time. This SilkPro Oil Control Shampoo actually suds up pretty decent and can be washed off easily too.

However, as soon as my hair is dry, I felt this horrible itchiness in my scalp. And mind you, I didn't use any hair conditioners nor apply any type of hair smoothener nor hair oil at all. It was only the shampoo from beginning to end. Ultimately, if this shampoo promises thicker hair, then I have to disagree totally. As this shampoo gives me an itchy scalp, which in turn leads to scratching and more scratching to relieve the itchiness. And all the scratching ultimately leads to hair loss, and with hair loss present, how can this product claimed to give thicker hair? It should probably be changed to "This shampoo thins your hair like no any other".

However, I don't recall my hair smelling nice nor pleasant. Maybe the itching part over-ride the scent factor in here. True that my hair didn't feel greasy nor oily after 1 wash, but I didn't anticipate on having an itchy-like-hell scalp after using it. And I did stood under the shower-head for a further 10 minutes more, while constantly massaging and running my fingers through my hair. So, it's highly impossible that I could have missed a spot where I forgot to rinse out the shampoo. Let's just say it's impossible to rinse half your scalp and not rinse the other half in the shower. So, it's definitely not me, but the shampoo.

I ended up re-washing my hair late at night with my regular shampoo, just for the sake of getting rid of the itchiness that refused to go away. And if you thought that it was only an episode of itchy scalp, then you're half right there. While washing my hair, I did noticed that my hair fall increased, despite SilkPro range promising that it reduces hair fall. Just like the previous SilkPro Hair Fall Control review I did, it promises less hair fall. But in the end, it gave me more hair fall instead.

Part of me is just glad I got the sample kit instead of buying the retail-size version, or I'm going to have trouble getting rid of it since this shampoo series did so much harm to my scalp and hair than to actually help it.

VERDICT: ✓

WHAT I THINK: The itch from hell, straight from a SilkPro shampoo bottle. Try it if you dare..

WHERE TO REDEEM SAMPLE: I previously got this sample around late July, and less than a week or so, all samples were fully redeemed. Personally, I am just glad the samples were redeemed pretty fast, as one, the sample arrived looking greasy and yucky looking and all the samples in there consists of SilkPro Oil Control Shampoo, SilkPro Hair Fall Control Shampoo & SilkPro Treatment Conditioner. And I can gladly say I hated all 3 of these products from SilkPro. Instead of promising to reduce hair fall, all I experienced was more hair fall than before and an oily back (from the Treatment Conditioner) which resulted in a bout of unwanted backne (a.k.a back acne). Grr..

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SilkPro Treatment Conditioner Review

WHAT IS IT: SilkPro Treatment Conditioner


THE PRODUCT(S):

SilkPro Treatment Conditioner: Silkpro Treatment Conditioner is specially enriched with natural active ingredients to care for and protect hair texture from turning dull and dry as well as to maintain hair colour.

The intensive conditioner helps hair lock in moisture to give you stronger, shinier, and healthier-looking hair, while maintaining good scalp condition..


Tested a dollop for review.

VERDICT: First of all, the scent of this SilkPro Treatment Conditioner is rather pleasant. I'm guessing it's probably because of the shampoo range series, if not, your hair will smell weird with different scents from different hair products (the shampoo and conditioner, namely) clashing together. Not every scent complements each other ^^

It spreads easily, as you can see in the 3rd image above. However, this is also where my peeve about this product starts. For a start, conditioner(s) of any types or brands should make your hair feel smoother and much more manageable prior to using. And yet at the same time, able to be rinsed off completely and cleanly without leftover residue. A sample satchet is actually enough for 2 days usage as I don't need the entire satchet for my head, just mainly for the tangled, frizzy and split ends.

Again, I musy once more stress that the only product that touches your scalp at any time would be your shampoo as you need to wash it off in the end after deeply cleansing and massaging your scalp to promote blood circulation, blah blah blah. Conditioners, especially, must never ever touch your scalp, even if it's in the shower. It's not meant for scalp use, it's for hair use. Remember this!

True that this SilkPro Treatment Conditioner did make my hair feel much more smoother and manageable, almost as good as the Dove one I used years before. However, it sort of leaves a filmy and greasy feeling on my back, since my hair is long and touches my back easily especially when wet in the shower. The first day, I didn't realize it until I was done with my shower and was about to dry myself.

With that in mind, I paid a little more attention to my back as well for signs of greasiness and feelings of oiliness after using the SilkPro Treatment Conditioner. And there is the feeling of greasiness again! And it was really hard to wash off the feeling of greasiness/oiliness off my back after rinsing my hair clean of conditioner. Did I mentioned that I had to rinse my hair longer than before?

This SilkPro Treatment Conditioner although manages to leave my hair feeling smooth, soft and manageable, but it does take a little longer to rinse off, despite using only a small dollop for my hair. Mind you, I didn't use 5-6 teaspoon-ful of hair conditioner. Just a dollop is enough to cover from the back of your head to the ends of your hair. And I basically felt I was re-washing my hair all over again, but without the shampoo. And once the rinsing was done, my back was getting the conditioner treatment that was unnecessarily.

I ended up having to re-shower my back again to get rid of the greasy/oily feeling left by the conditioner. Thinking that it may be me and not this product, I tried using it on the back of my hand, as you can see in the last image above. The result? It's definitely SilkPro Treatment Conditioner, not me.

And at the end, I had more hairfall than before, despite using SilkPro Treatment Conditioner together with SilkPro Hair Fall Control Shampoo

PRODUCT RATING(S): ✓✓

WHAT I THINK: Having to re-do everything in the shower? Not cool..

WHERE TO REDEEM A SAMPLE: I got my samples from SilkPro Singapore Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SilkProSG while they were still having a Facebook sample giveaway. However, the samples were redeemed too fast. So, I'd recommend being a fan of their page by Liking their page in order to be informed of their hair care kit giveaways at selected locations.

Generally, I'd suggest getting this hair care kit and saving the shampoo samples for at least a good 2 days use as you don't need much shampoo on your head. And you can gauge/judge for yourself if it is really effective for you. I know it doesn't for me, so I won't bother to buy this product ever.

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SilkPro Hair Fall Control Shampoo Review

[ My humble apologies for not uploading a blog post yesterday. I spent an hour on PhotoBucket trying to upload these batch of photos, but apparently, PhotoBucket decided to take a day off without prior notice, so I was forced to join PhotoBucket on their day off too. ]

WHAT IS IT: SilkPro Hair Fall Control Shampoo


THE PRODUCT(S):

SilkPro Hair Fall Control Shampoo: Get early treatment for hair loss and greying hair. 11 Eastern and Western herbs are specially extracted and combined with Amla Extract to refresh and effectively cleanse your hair without drying.


This produces soap suds easily when mixed with water.

Source: http://www.silkpro.com.sg/index_01.html#/products

VERDICT: First of all, the scent of this SilkPro Hair Fall Control Shampoo have a rather sweet and strong scent to it. However, this strong smell actually makes you hair smell nice after just 1 wash. And as claimed by SilkPro, "in just one wash, you can truly feel the difference", I personally beg to differ entirely.

I tried it the first time after getting the sample from SilkPro's Facebook page, this SilkPro Hair Fall Control Shampoo actually leaves a tingling and cooling sensation around my neck area where the shampoo dripped instead of feeling it on my scalp. (Just like the Head & Shoulders Menthol shampoo.) However, I don't see any improvement despite saving that 1 sample satchet for 2 days use. As SilkPro claimed that consumer(s) can see the difference in 1 wash, I found that I lost more hair after 1 wash instead. How's that for that quote "in just one wash, you can truly feel the difference"? I did feel the difference, but not as promised.

Granted that this shampoo didn't do much harm to my hair except to give me more hair fall instead of "controlling it", the scent actually is a perk me up after showering. However, I cannot deny the fact that this shampoo also cleanse well, lathers easily and also washed off easily too. 2 days after using that 1 sample satchet, I felt itchiness on my scalp, on top of the more-than-usual hair loss that was supposed to be controlled and felt in 1 wash.

Despite the shampoo touting to be a Hair Fall Control shampoo, it doesn't deliver at all. I'm pretty sure there are other shampoos out in the market that actually does the job as promised. Even when SilkPro has managed to get a few popular celebrities to endorse this product, I really and truly wonder if the endorsers actually did tried the shampoo for a duration of at least 1 week to a month, or were they really just paid to claimed that it works despite never using this before.

PRODUCT RATING: ✓

WHAT I THINK: I feel like those bald little birdies always seen trying to peck for food at local hawker centres -_-

WHERE TO REDEEM A SAMPLE: I got my samples from SilkPro Singapore Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SilkProSG while they were still having a Facebook sample giveaway. However, the samples were redeemed too fast. So, I'd recommend being a fan of their page by Liking their page in order to be informed of their hair care kit giveaways at selected locations.

Generally, I'd suggest getting this hair care kit and saving the shampoo samples for at least a good 2 days use as you don't need much shampoo on your head. And you can gauge/judge for yourself if it is really effective for you. I know it doesn't for me, so I won't bother to buy this product ever.

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