RIP Tresemmé

Tresemme is cheap crap full of strong alkaline detergents, like all the other supermarket shampoos. I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.

I struggle with a lot of shampoo bottles to the extent that I decant into squeezy travel bottles (from Superdrug) for home use as well as travelling. Also means you don't potentially suffer the pain after dropping a big bottle of shampoo on your foot in the shower that a few posters have mentioned.

I store the original bottles upside down in a basket in the bathroom cupboard and then when the small bottles are nearly empty, refill them but it still can take a bit of 'shaking down' to get the second half of the shampoo out of the bottle. I have a personal bugbear with packaging that seems to be designed to make the user waste a significant portion of the product and am determined to beat manufacturers at this game.

Any recommendations for a shampoo for vivid hair? Couldn’t get on with tresseme at all and currently alternate between Aussie colour shampoo and bed head colour shampoo.

What I meant was that if you sell someone a massive bottle of shampoo for £3.50, they don't spend much on shampoo. That amount would last me months, as an aside, I have no idea what the poster who says 'I make the 900 ml bottle last a whole month' is doing with it, drinking it?

Say I buy 2 bottles a year, that's £7 a year on shampoo, which is hardly anything. If the price changes to £5 for 500 ml, the same amount of shampoo costs about £18, so the amount I give them per year has more than doubled, with minimal changes in costs - plastic bottles, ingredients, production costs and transport will be pennies per item either way.

Do those people who recommend Aussie not struggle to get the shampoo out of the bottle? After a couple of uses I have to upend the bottles to get anything out.

Would also suggest trying the Aldi & Lidl dupes.

Aldi (not sure about Lidl) also does an Aussie dupe which I use.

This is not how product profitability works. You can make a profit off even a low priced item if it costs pennies to make & transport.

Capasal Therapeutic Shampoo. Recomended by the pharmasist.

I used Alphosyl for years but they stopped making it. I could usually get my GP to prescribe it too, but he has retired.

@sashhplease can you advise what shampoo you use. I have this too and it’s driving me mad!

My son came home from school to say Tresemme was the Prime Minister

Hey if it's any help,you can subscribe - get it sent every month or every other. And it's discounted if you do that for multiple things too.

I live by the aussie one

Both 900ml bottles and multipacks of 6 680ml available on Amazon cheap as chips still. Perhaps they’re trying to boost sales. Haven’t seen the pump versions and certainly wouldn’t buy them.

I read apparently it's bad for your hair. I stopped using it. Maybe you can find something you like equally.

Yes. RIP Tresemme. They were 900ml bottles. I could make one bottle each of shampoo & conditioner last a month. Then they changed the formula and now it makes my hair feel dry. It's rubbish. 🙁

I'm trying to find a replacement but I've added 8 plastic bottles to recycling in month.

I've found a wholesaler who provides decent shampoo in 950ml bottles. Starting tomorrow 😊

The 900ml bottles of conditioner are £3.49 on Amazon at the moment.

The new one is rubbish, it doesn't foam up and leaves my hair feeling like it isn't clean. I miss the old ones.

Try the Aldi and Lidl dupes

Also why not rotate your shampoo? If I wash my hair in any shampoo, wash after wash, it goes flat.

It drives me mad that if you've got dry, coloured, fragile...

If it’s any consolation, the shampoo for dry hair is not always great and leaves a residue.

I often use the green one for deep cleansing, and have seen it in Home Bargains a couple of times, in 500ml and standard size bottles. Wish I'd bought more than two in retrospect!

I have greasy hair, and the only other shampoo I've found that cleans my hair properly is Pantene Classic Clean. Just thought I'd mention that for people with greasy hair who are struggling to fjnd an alternative that actually works. It does leave my hair a bit drier than other shampoos though. Tesco apple shampoo is pretty good, but hardly ever seems to be available now. I tried Elvive Hydra Pure, but wasn't very impressed. I'd say it's for normal rather than greasy hair. I really like the conditioner though, it's light but conditions well. Cheap, non moisturising shower gel is another alternative. I sometimes - shock horror - mix washing up liquid with shampoo if I've left it for three days instead of the normal two and it's really greasy, that gets it thoroughly clean.

It drives me mad that if you've got dry, coloured, fragile... or anything but greasy hair there's so much choice. It really shouldn't be so difficult to find shampoo that cleans greasy hair properly!

Just buy the Aldi dupes 🤷🏽‍♀️

I stopped using it years ago, every salon I went to kept telling me to not use it - apparently it left a film on the hair.
I am however getting fed up with shampoo bottles getting smaller (but price increasing) because I have thick hair, and a family so the shampoo doesn’t last long in my house