Looking after your hair is a top priority if you pride yourself on having clean and healthy looking hair, and using quality hair care products (i.e. shampoo and conditioner) is a must. However, when it comes to getting the best value for money should you buy professional salon hair care products, or would cheap high street hair care products be just as good?



Cheap hair products available from the average high street store might appear to be better value for money because of their lower cost, while professional salon hair care products often appear to be pricier, with the average salon hair products priced at $20/GBP10, and a similar size cheap hair care product costing $4/GBP2.

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.

However... when you carry out a closer inspection of the differences between cheap hair products and professional salon hair products, does cheap hair care products really provide the better value for money, or is buying cheap hair products a false economy? Lets take a closer look...

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.

In our test we compared a 300ml bottle of an average high street shampoo, and an equivalent 300ml bottle of salon professional shampoo. The high street shampoo needed about 50ml per application to clean the hair to our required standard, whereas the salon shampoo needed only 10ml per application to clean the hair to the same required 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/GBP0.33p per application, and the cheap average high street shampoo worked out at $0.64c/GBP0.32p per application.

Result: although the high street shampoo appears to be better value, in truth there is very little difference in cost compared to the professional hair shampoo. The professional shampoo is of much higher quality and more effective in cleaning your hair. Buying cheap high street hair shampoo is a false economy. Q? Why would you want to use an inferior product on your hair?

Looking after your hair is a top priority if you pride yourself on having clean and healthy look hair, and using quality hair care products (i.e. shampoo and conditioner) is a must. However, when it comes to acquiring the best value for money should you buy professional salon hair care products, or would cheap high street hair care products be just as good?

Cheap hair products available from the average high street store might look to be break value for money because of their lower cost, while professional salon hair care products often appear to be pricier, with the medium salon hair products priced at $20/GBP10, and a similar size cheap hair care wares costing $4/GBP2.

When you weigh up cheap hair care products and master salon hair care products and compare them on price alone, cheaper hair care products seem to be far and away the visible choice, costing 1/5th the price of salon products, gift you what appears to be 5 times the amount of product for the same money.

However... when you carry out a closer inspection of the differences between cheap hair products and professional person salon hair products, does cheap hair care products actually provide the better value for money, or is buying cheap hair products a false economy? Lets take a closer look...

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 prime(a) test.

In our test we compared a 300ml bottle of an fair high street shampoo, and an same 300ml bottle of salon pro shampoo. The high street shampoo needed about 50ml per application to clean the hair to our required standard, whereas the salon shampoo requisite only 10ml per application to clean the hair to the same required 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 coating of the professional salon shampoo is $0.66c/GBP0.33p per application, and the cheap average high street shampoo worked out at $0.64c/GBP0.32p per application.

Result: tho' the high street shampoo appears to be break value, in truth there is very little difference of opinion in cost compared to the professional hair shampoo. The pro shampoo is of much higher quality and more in force in cleaning your hair. Buying cheap high street hair shampoo is a false economy. Q? Why would you want to use an inferior product on your hair?

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