Best Pureology Shampoo and Conditioner

The best Pureology shampoo and conditioner is the pair made for your main hair concern, used together from the same line. Pureology splits its wash and care into lines for different needs: colour, moisture, strength, volume and smoothing. Work out which one matters most to you and the choice gets a lot shorter. You can see every option side by side in our Pureology range.

Pick one concern first

Most people can tick three or four boxes. A bit dry, a bit coloured, a bit frizzy, a bit flat. Buying for all of them at once usually ends in a heavy routine that weighs hair down. Look at your hair the day after you wash it, once it has dried and settled, and choose the thing that bothers you most.

• Dry, rough or dull: go for a moisture pair. Give the conditioner a minute or two before you rinse.
• Snaps, stretches or feels mushy when wet: that is damage, usually from bleach, heat or both. A strengthening pair suits it, and so does going easy on hot tools.
• Flat by lunchtime: a volume pair keeps things light. Keep the conditioner on the mid-lengths and ends, away from the roots.
• Frizzes in humid weather: a smoothing pair helps, though what you leave in after the shower does a lot of the work.
• Curls or waves you want to keep: look for gentle cleansing and plenty of slip. See our best pureology for curly hair picks.

Why buy them as a pair

The shampoo cleans the scalp and lengths, then rinses out in a minute. The conditioner stays on the lengths and does the softening and detangling. A pair from the same line is made to do those two jobs for the same type of hair. Mixing lines is not a disaster, but a strengthening shampoo followed by a light volume conditioner works against itself on damaged hair, and you end up guessing why your hair feels off.

If you would rather build your own mix, compare the best pureology shampoo options with the best pureology conditioner picks and match them by concern.

Coloured hair

Colour fades a little every wash, so how you wash counts as much as what you wash with. Use lukewarm water, not hot. Wash fewer times a week if you can. Work the shampoo into the scalp and let the suds run through the lengths rather than scrubbing the ends. If you colour often, start with the best pureology for colour treated hair. If a shampoo is all you need right now, go straight to our pureology shampoo for colour treated hair.

What a wash routine will not do

A good shampoo and conditioner keep hair clean and in good condition. They will not undo years of bleach on their own. If your hair is badly damaged, add a mask once a week and trim the worst of the ends. That does more than switching shampoos every month.

Give any new pair a few weeks of regular washes before you judge it. Hair often feels different for the first few washes while old product build-up clears. And buy for the hair you have now, not the hair you might have later. A heavy repair pair on healthy fine hair just leaves it limp.

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