Best L'Oreal Shampoo

Best L'Oreal Shampoo

The best loreal shampoo is the one made for what your hair is doing right now, not the one a friend swears by. L'Oreal Professional sorts its shampoos by need: colour care, blonde toning, repair, moisture, volume and a deeper clean. Work out the need first and the shortlist gets short. If you want to see the whole brand side by side, start with our L'Oreal Professional range.

Pick by what your hair needs

Check your hair the day after you wash it. Hair straight out of the shower can fool you.

  • Colour fades quickly or looks dull. Choose a gentle, colour-safe shampoo and rinse in lukewarm water rather than hot. Our guide to the best loreal shampoo for coloured hair narrows these down.
  • Blonde or grey hair turns yellow or brassy. A purple or silver shampoo puts the cool tone back between salon visits. Use it in place of your regular shampoo now and then, not every wash.
  • Hair feels weak, rough or snaps when you brush it. That points to damage from bleach, heat or both. A repair shampoo is the place to start, with a mask on top when the damage is heavy.
  • Ends feel dry and straw-like. Go for a moisture shampoo, and look at how often you wash. Washing less often is part of the fix.
  • Hair goes flat or oily fast. You want a lighter shampoo, not a richer one. A volumising or deep-cleansing shampoo suits fine or oily hair better than a rich, nourishing one.

Shampoo cleans, conditioner cares

A shampoo's main job is to clean the scalp and hair. It can do that gently, but it rinses out quickly. The conditioner is what stays on the lengths, so if your shampoo is right and your hair still feels dry or tangled, the conditioner is usually the missing piece. Keep the two working in the same direction. A repair shampoo paired with a light volumising conditioner on damaged hair pulls against itself. Browse our best loreal conditioner picks, or skip the matching and shop the best loreal shampoo and conditioner pairs.

How to get more from it

Use less than you think. Work a small amount into the scalp with your fingertips, not your nails, and let the rinse carry it through the lengths. Wash twice only when there is a lot of oil or styling product to shift. If your scalp is oily but your ends are dry, shampoo the roots and condition the ends. Swap in a deeper-cleansing shampoo now and then if styling products start to build up and your usual one stops lathering well.

A few honest notes

Don't buy on scent or packaging. Don't put a heavy repair shampoo on healthy fine hair, as it can leave it flat. If you colour your hair, a sulphate-free shampoo is the gentler everyday choice. And if your hair is happy with the shampoo you use now, there is no reason to change it.

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Your Questions Answered

Yes, L'Oreal Professional is a salon brand with shampoos for most hair needs, from colour care to repair and volume. Good still comes down to fit. A great shampoo for the wrong hair type will let you down, so choose by what your hair needs most, such as colour, damage, dryness or flat roots, and match the conditioner to it.

The best loreal shampoo is the one matched to your main hair concern. Pick a colour-safe shampoo for dyed hair, a purple or silver one for blonde and grey, a repair shampoo for bleached or heat-damaged hair, a moisture one for dry hair, and a volumising one for fine hair. If you have two concerns, choose for the bigger one and let the conditioner handle the other.

Not all of it. L'Oreal Professional makes both sulphate-free and sulphate-based shampoos, so check the ingredient list for sodium lauryl sulphate or sodium laureth sulphate. Sulphate-free formulas are the gentler choice for coloured hair, while a sulphate-based wash suits a deeper clean when products build up. To compare gentle options across brands, browse our sulphate-free range.

You can buy it at AMR, with Australia-wide delivery. It sits alongside our other toning shampoos, so you can compare it with other brands before you choose. Silver shampoo suits grey, white and very light blonde hair. If your blonde is warmer or more golden, a purple shampoo is usually the better match, and a colour-safe shampoo can cover the washes in between.

Use it on wet hair the same way as a regular shampoo. Wet your hair through, work a small amount into the scalp, spread it through the lengths and rinse well. Follow with conditioner or a mask on the lengths. Read the directions on the pack, as leave-on time and how often to use it can differ from your everyday shampoo.

Yes, a L'Oreal Professional purple shampoo is a good pick for keeping blonde, grey or highlighted hair cool between toner appointments. The purple pigment cancels out yellow tones. Don't use it every wash, as it can leave light blonde with a lilac tinge. Alternate it with a gentle colour-safe shampoo, and compare more options in our purple shampoo for blonde hair range.

A volumising L'Oreal Professional shampoo is best for thin hair. It cleans without leaving heavy conditioning behind, so roots stay lighter and hair has more lift. Skip rich moisture and repair shampoos on the scalp, as they can weigh fine strands down. Use a light conditioner on the ends only. For more options across brands, see our volumising shampoo range.