How To Choose The Right Conditioner

Hello. My name's Andrew Jose, of Andrew Jose Salon in Charlotte Street, London. Conditioning your hair is a different journey to cleaning.

Now, once you've shampooed your hair, and you've prepared it, then the conditioning is an absolutely essential part of your daily routine. Some shampoos claim to be fully conditioning, and, personally, I would say avoid that. Treat it as a separate thing altogether.

Look after the condition of your hair after you've got it clean. Again, this time the choice is a little larger, in the array of things that you can choose, and the choice should lead you in a slightly different direction. So, first of all, we have a leave-in conditioner, which is generally a spray, and quite a fine mist.

You may even say a hairdresser using this as they're cutting your hair, as a cutting sort of agent, to help them comb it through. This is not rinsed out, but it's fantastic for detangling, very good if you've got young children and they swim a lot, and their hair tends to go knotty, or if you highlight your hair, or if you just generally like to wear your hair with a bit of condition in it, but without it being weighed down. So that's a fine leave-in conditioner mist, called SOS, from JLife.

Secondly, you have a weekly treat. Now, again, unique to conditioning, but a mask that's full of moisture is something that's absolutely essential for anyone who's got medium-length hair or long hair, or if you color your hair or use any type of chemical treatment. Having that extra intense moisturizer is a real must.

Now a wonderful of just checking this out and looking for the lightness is that, and this is a sort of a test I encourage hairdressers to use before choosing to take this product in. Now, if I just take a small amount of it, and you notice, and this will give you an idea of what the pH balance of the product is like, itself. pH is between 4.

5 and 5.5, which is the same as the skin. Now, if I just rub that in, then you'll see that the JLife drench literally has just completely disappeared, it's absorbed into my skin, and my skin is just left incredibly smooth and shiny, but it doesn't feel greasy at all.

That is what you should look for in a mask. Again, use it about once a week. It'll be absorbed into your hair, but it won't weigh it down or make it heavy in any way whatsoever.

But that's a good test. If you're not sure whether or not it's the right one for you, take a small amount of it, and just see how easily it's absorbed by the skin. Remember, it's the same stuff as your hair.