Best Wella Shampoo and Conditioner

The best Wella shampoo and conditioner is the pair made for the one thing your hair needs most right now. Wella Professionals is a salon brand best known for colour, and its wash and care is split into lines for colour, blonde tones, repair, moisture, volume and scalp care. Choose the line that fits your hair, use the shampoo and conditioner from that same line, and most of the work is done. You can compare every option across the full Wella Professionals range.

Pick your main concern first

Most hair has more than one issue. It might be coloured, a bit dry and prone to frizz all at once. Pick the one that bothers you most on a normal day. If your colour looks flat a few weeks after the salon, colour care is your line. If your ends snap or feel like straw after bleach or heat, it is repair. If your hair is soft enough but goes limp by lunch, look at volume. Trying to fix everything at once usually means heavy products and hair that feels coated.

Why the pair matters

A shampoo and conditioner from the same line are built to work as a team. The shampoo cleans in a way that suits that hair type, and the conditioner puts back what that hair type tends to lose. Mixing lines won't ruin your hair, but a strong cleansing shampoo with a light conditioner can leave lengths dry, and a rich conditioner after a gentle shampoo can flatten fine hair. If you would rather build your own mix, look at best wella shampoo and the best wella conditioner side by side.

Matching the line to your hair

• Coloured hair: a colour care pair helps the most if you colour every six to eight weeks. Wash in lukewarm water and skip a wash day where you can.
• Blonde, lightened or grey hair: a toning pair keeps brassy or yellow tones in check. Most people use it once or twice a week and a gentler pair the rest of the time, as toning every wash can leave blonde looking dull.
• Damaged hair: bleach, hot tools and tight styles all add up. Go for a repair line and treat wet hair gently, because that is when it breaks most easily.
• Dry or frizzy hair: a moisture line is the simple choice. Leave the conditioner on for a minute or two before you rinse.
• Fine or flat hair: a volume line keeps things light. Put conditioner on the mid-lengths and ends only, away from the roots.
• Oily or flaky scalp: start with a scalp-focused shampoo and keep conditioner well away from the scalp.

When to add a mask

A shampoo and conditioner keep hair clean and in good shape week to week. They won't undo months of bleach on their own. If your hair is dry or damaged, swap the conditioner for a wella hair mask once a week and leave it on longer. Trim the worst of the ends too. That does more than switching shampoos every month.

How to use them

Wet your hair well and massage shampoo into the scalp, letting the suds run through the lengths. Shampoo twice if your hair is oily or full of styling product. Squeeze out the extra water before conditioner goes on, or it slides straight off. Comb it through, wait, then rinse.

Give a new pair a few weeks before you judge it. If you also want styling and treatment picks from the same brand, see our best wella products.