Can we talk about how pricey that new salon shampoo is just repackaged drugstore stuff?

I looked up the ingredients on a $45 bottle a client swore by last month and it matched a $7 Suave bottle line for line, anyone else ever fact-check a product like that?

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sandrat242mo ago

Oh yeah, "a different formulation process" is such a classic cop-out line. It's like they think we can't just look at the ingredients list and see it's the same stuff. That reminds me of when beauty brands tried to say their water was "charged with special energy" or whatever nonsense. I wonder how many people actually try the drugstore version after getting that kind of response from the company. Your friend Deb had the right idea just testing it herself, because if it really was different then her hair wouldn't have felt identical. The whole salon shampoo thing is basically paying extra for the fancy bottle and the smell of lavender.

jones.anna2mo ago

Did your friend call the company out on it? My friend Deb actually emailed a brand once with the ingredient list side by side and they said it was "a different formulation process." She bought the drugstore one after that and swore her hair felt exactly the same.

milestaylor24d ago

Laugh at the "different formulation process" line because that's corporate speak for "we know it's the same but we can't admit it." @jones.anna, your friend Deb basically proved what everyone with half a brain already suspects - that the expensive stuff is just the cheap stuff with a fancier label and a bottle that looks nice on your bathroom shelf. Next time a brand tries that line, just ask them if the "different formulation process" involves a different factory or if they're just running the same goop through different pipes