Can Phil Smith Rescue my Hair?

Supermarkets are brilliant places to scour for bargains, or even lesser known brands.  Sainsburys was my place of choice on rainy afternoon (no surprise there England!), the one nearest to me has just had a brand new facelift, and a shed load of new brands injected into their health and beauy isles.  

The one I gravitated towards was the Phil Smith line, with it's brightly coloured tubes and bottles, it was like a moth to the flame. 

The SOS Rescue range enticed me in most, because of the ever popular mention of the Moroccan Argan oil content.  With claims to help frazzled, frequently styled hair I thought I really had nothing to lose by giving it a whirl - the ends of my hair are looking particularly sorry for themselves lately despite my recent cut. 

I picked up the Damage Protection Shampoo (£3.50) and the Damage Protection Conditioner (£3.50) in the hope that my hair might start to love me again. 

First of all let me tell you about the scent, because my-oh-my they both smell incredible. It's like a soft, warm scent with just the right hint of a professional blow dry about it. I literally kept swishing my hair around for hours afterwards just to get a whiff of it again. 

I was really impressed with the shampoo, it lathered up instantly and I really felt like it got to every inch of my scalp, right through to my ends.  Rinsing out was easy too, and I felt like it actually left me hair feeling nicely moisturised. The conditioner was where I hit a worry though as the formula was just a bit thinner than I was expecting (think more along the lines of a body lotion consistency).  I felt like I had to use a fair amount to get it on all over, and when I washed it out my hair didn't feel like I'd had anything on it at all.

I thought styling was going to be a nightmare, and I assumed because my hair didn't feel very conditioned that once dried, it was going to be knotty and dry. 

Well...I was wrong. It was a bit of a pain to brush through at first but once I'd got the tangles out the rest of it was a breeze, and I actually felt like my drying time was significantly less than usual.  Afterwards my hair felt soft and managable, a far cry from what I was expecting really. I did find that it got a tad knotty again just before I needed to wash it, but it was nothing a tangle geezer couldn't sort out. 

The Phil Smith range is available in Sainsburys in stores and online, currently on a 2 for £5.50 offer.