Best Loreal Shampoo for Coloured Hair

The best loreal shampoo for coloured hair is the one matched to your shade and your hair, not the one with the loudest label. This page brings together the L'Oreal Professional shampoos made for colour-treated hair, so you can compare them side by side and pick the right one first time.

Start with your shade

Colour fades for a few simple reasons: harsh cleansers, hot water, sun and washing too often. A shampoo can't stop all of that, but the wrong one speeds it up. So the first question is what colour you're protecting.

• Blonde, silver or grey: brass and yellow tones creep in between appointments. A toning shampoo with violet pigment keeps that in check. Use it once or twice a week, not every wash, or blondes can pick up a lilac cast.
• Red, copper and brunette: these shades lose warmth and depth fastest. Stick with a gentle colour-care shampoo for every wash, and look at a colour-depositing option if your tone dulls quickly.
• Dark or natural-looking colour: a mild, colour-safe shampoo is usually all you need. Save the stronger options for when you actually see fade.

If you want to see toning and depositing shampoos from other brands as well, the colour shampoo collection has the full spread.

Then match your hair type

Coloured hair is processed hair, so it often needs more care than the shade alone suggests.

• Fine hair: go for a light formula. Rich, creamy shampoos can leave fine hair flat and heavy at the roots.
• Thick, dry or curly hair: a creamier colour-care shampoo makes more sense here. It cleans without leaving the lengths rough.
• Bleached or lightened hair: lightening opens the hair up, so it loses moisture and colour faster. Pick a gentle, nourishing shampoo and plan on a conditioner every time you wash.

How to make colour last longer

The shampoo is half the job. How you wash matters just as much.

• Wait a couple of days after colouring before your first wash.
• Wash in lukewarm water, not hot.
• Wash less often if your scalp allows it. Most colour fades in the shower.
• Shampoo the scalp, and let the rinse clean the lengths.
• Always follow with a conditioner from the same colour-care range, or one made for coloured hair.

If you want to pair your shampoo with masks, conditioners and treatments made for colour, our coloured hair range covers every step of the routine.

Why L'Oreal Professional

L'Oreal Professional is a salon brand, made for use in salons as well as at home. Using shampoo from the same brand at home keeps your aftercare in line with what was done in the chair. If you wash coloured hair several times a week, compare bottle sizes and prices before you pick one.

Not sure colour care is what you need? If your colour is fading slowly and your hair feels fine, an everyday shampoo can do the job. You can compare the best loreal shampoo options across every hair need, or shop all L'Oreal Professional for conditioners, masks, styling and colour.

AMR stocks the L'Oreal Professional range alongside the other salon brands stylists use, so you can compare formulas, sizes and prices in one place before you buy.

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