My experience with the first Philip Kinsley product I used which was a styling gloss was not a good one because it made my hair look horrible. I wouldn’t have given this brand another chance just because it doesn’t seem to cater to oily hair, but since I got a travel size of this deep-conditioning treatment in my advent calendar I decided to give it a chance.

Packaging:

The full size comes in a jar, but the travel size was available in a tube. The design is colorful and fun, probably in line with the scent of the treatment.

Texture:

The product looks like a regular white conditioner and it smells very nice, like oranges and vanilla. I like scented hair products and I don’t care if it’s unnecessary or not. I just think that hair should always smell nice, so why not?

Ingredients:

Aqua/Water/Eau, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Ethylhexyl Dimethyl PABA, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Cetrimonium Chloride, Amodimethicone, Phenoxyethanol, Parfum (Fragrance), Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hydrolyzed Elastin, Hexyl Cinnamal, Trideceth-12, Limonene, Benzyl Salicylate, Linalool, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Sodium Benzoate, Citric Acid.

The first ingredients are water, castor seed oil, glycerin, propylene glycol (a humectant, the base for various cosmetic products, including in makeup), cetearyl alcohol (a substance made from fatty alcohols, an emulsifier that prevents the separation of liquids and oils) and ethylhexyl dimethyl PABA (a substance that absorbs UV radiation and prevents the deterioration of cosmetic products).

Philip Kingsley products are cruelty free.

Price and accessibility:

I saw Philip Kingsley products just in one Romanian online shop, so they aren’t as easy accessible, and it’s not exactly affordable. The full size (150 ml) retails for 54 US dollars on their official website. You don’t need much so a little goes a long way, but still it’s up there when it comes to expensive hair products.

My overall opinion:

The product promises elasticity, manageability, bounce and shine for all hair textures. It’s applied on damp hair, then you leave it on for at least 20 minutes and then the hair is shampooed and rinsed well. At least I had some sort of revelation when I was using this product – that I can use hair masks before shampooing and my hair won’t become oily faster that usual. It’s something that I will keep doing from now on because there’s a problem when you have oily colored hair: hair masks and treatments meant to prevent hair damage are usually very rich in oils and all kinds of ingredients that make my fine oily hair look greasy after just one day. So this way, I could still use them but I could get away with washing my hair not so often.

The hair does look smooth and silky after using this treatment and it’s very easy to detangle without breaking it when it’s damp, but I’m just not that impress with it to make me want to buy it on my own. I think that it’s more suitable for dry and thick hair than for my type of hair (although it says on their website that it’s for all hair types). It was better than that hair gloss I used before, but it’s still something that makes me think that Philip Kingsley is just not a brand suitable for my hair needs.