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Drugstores are a beauty product junkie's haven. Almost nothing can beat walking down those bath product aisles and getting a whiff of all of those brilliant scents. Those colorful bottles of shampoos are no exception. But which shampoo is the best of the bunch? Depending on what you're looking for, there are many great drugstore shampoos on the market.
Dry Hair
Women can conquer the world, and we can do this with incredibly soft hair. Keeping our hair hydrated is pretty important. Shockingly enough, Johnson's No More Tears Baby Shampoo is the magic potion to relieve hair from dryness. Grooming, style and manner specialist and author Constance Dunn dubbed the baby shampoo as the best of the best because many drugstore shampoos are heavily soaped, leaving hair over-stripped from its protective natural lubricants. Baby shampoo is soap free and extra mild. It hydrates dry hair that needs some sprucing-up without any damage. The best part? It's only $2 at drugstores.
Curly Hair
Hey girls, let your curls bounce with freedom. No more hiding your beautiful ringlets under a hat. Most drugstore shampoos contain sulfate. It's an inexpensive ingredient that helps make drugstore brands less expensive than salon ones. Sulfate strips hair of its natural oils -- bad news for gals with curls. This causes the ultimate hair enemy, frizz, to go wild. More frizz means more bad hair days. Top beauty blogger, Risi-Leanne Baranja, recommends using Pantene Curly Line. It has various products for curly hair. The dry to moisturized product is perfect for air drying your curls and getting no-frizz results. Curly gals also want to switch it up at times, so the curly to straight product is great for blow drying your curls straight, or keeping your curls loose and wavy. So go ahead, explore your curls!
Colored Hair
We spend tons of moola on coloring our hair, only to watch it slowly fade away. Shampoos can not only dry out your newly colored locks, but can also make the color disappear. Color specialist Marie Robinson suggests using shampoos intended for color-treated hair. Also, regardless what shampoo you use, Robinson tells "Teen Vogue" that shampooing your hair everyday can wash out the color. She says to simply rinse and condition the hair every other day.
Big Hair
We tease and spray until our scalp is throbbing. All of this for the big, intensive volume we crave for our tresses. Put your teasing brush down slowly, step away from the hair spray, and pick up a volumizing shampoo. Senior scientist with Physique, Dianna Kenneally tells "Marie Claire" that if volume is what you're looking for, than look for a shampoo with polyquaternium-10. This secret little ingredient not only pumps up the hair's body, but also detangles the hair. Two perks in one ingredient sounds pretty great.
