by Little Momma

Created on: August 20, 2009

Okay, okay, I was sucked into the infomercial hype for Wen Hair Products by Chaz Dean. I have very dry, very curly hair that I color about once a week, as you can imagine this has led to some bad hair days. However, after watching the infomercial for Wen Hair Products I talked my husband into buying it for me, for my birthday last year.

I waited patiently for a couple of weeks for the products to arrive and I immediately showered and used only the Wen system and WOW. My hair hasn't looked this good since, well maybe ever. Not only does Wen by Chaz Dean make my hair soft, shiny, and manageable, but I don't need to use any of the products that I was using before. Granted this stuff isn't cheap at $29.95 a month, but, for ladies with hair like mine, it's worth every penny. I should mention that I don't follow the package directions, because I would be out of the cleansing conditioner within a week. I still shampoo my hair, with regular shampoo, for color-treated hair, about once a week, and I use Wen as directed about once a week. The rest of the time I just use the Cleansing Conditioner as a leave-in. Even without using it like it says, my hair looks amazing, and I'm not exaggerating.

With the Wen System, my hair is clean, soft, shiny, and healthy-looking. Until I heard about Wen, and how it works, I had no idea that washing your hair with shampoo was so damaging for it. When you wash your hair with traditional shampoo, the sulfates in it, which are what actually makes it lather, are stripping your hair of its natural oils, and drying your hair out. Traditional shampoo's can lead to a number of problems including; damage, breakage, color-fading, etc.

Unless you go out and roll your hair in the dirt, you really don't need traditional shampoo to cleanse your hair, a conditioner such as the Wen cleansing conditioner, will clean your hair and leave it healthy. The only downside is that if you use hair products that contain silicone's, you'll still need to use a traditional shampoo periodically to get the silicone's out of your hair, because they aren't water soluble.

Although I do love the product, it is a bit pricey. I've done some Internet research on using conditioner to cleanse or "wash" you hair, and I found out that a bottle of good ol' Suave conditioner will work just as well, if not better than Wen at actually cleansing your hair without shampoo.

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