Review: Shiseido Super Mild Shampoo
I’m not a girly-girl by all means, but I have to rave about the new shampoo I got last week. Tonight was my second time using it (shows you how often I wash my hair) and I still love it. I used to use a Burt’s Bees brand shampoo, which was fine when I had short hair, but is too drying now that my hair is longer. It also doesn’t lather that well, so it’s hard to work into my scalp because I have super thick hair. Long story short, Burt’s Bees shampoo just wasn’t working and I was glad to buy new shampoo after that bottle ran out.
Last week, I had a brilliant idea: why not try Japanese shampoo? I have stick-straight, thick, dark hair — who knows better about that type of hair than the Japanese, right? So off I went to Mitsuwa to buy some shampoo. I remembered a lot of women in Asia rave about the Super Mild line shampoo from Shiseido, so I bought a bottle to try.
It’s a little expensive at $12 a bottle, but it also comes in $7 refill packs which you can use to refill your current bottle. I bought the ‘green’ sporty scent, which I believe is a little more sporty. It was the only scent of the regular Super Mild bottle. It’s hard to describe the scent, but it’s definitely not flowery or girly. It kind of reminds me of the shampoo my stylist uses, although I dunno which one that is.
The shampoo comes in a pump bottle and usually a pump and half is all I need for my thick shoulder-length hair. It lathers great and washes off without too much noticeable residue. My favorite part is it makes my hair really soft, which Burt’s Bees never did. Even though I don’t believe in using conditioner (it’s just a marketing scam!), if I did use conditioner, I definitely wouldn’t need to with this shampoo because it leaves my hair feeling so smooth and luxurious by itself. There is a matching conditioner with this shampoo, but I didn’t buy it.
There’s also an orange-bottled version of this shampoo, which I think has soybean oil in it. Supposedly that makes your hair even softer. It’s a couple bucks more, but I guess if I had incredibly damaged hair, it’s nice to have something more conditioning.
Hmm, wonder if this is good for oily hair? I’m so jealous that you hardly ever have to wash yours!
good to know! whenever i have asian hairdressers on set they style me up like nobody’s business….i dunno why i don’t go home and buy the products they use….duh….
I used to have more oily hair, but ever since I cut down on washing my hair so much, it kinda calmed down and balanced out, if that makes sense. You can try if that works for you too.
I wash my hair twice a week and only use shampoo every other time. The rest of the time, just rinse with plain ol’ water to get my scalp clean.
This might sound narrow-minded of me, but I trust hair-dressers with my hair more if they’re Asian. And I don’t really care that much about my hair. But the few times I’ve gotten my hair cut by non-Asians, it always turns out funny because they’re not used to the texture of my hair or something.
My usual hair-dresser knows not to thin the top of my hair too much or else it sticks up like crazy, but other hair-dressers are all, “Wow, your hair is so thick! Time to go crazy with the thinning shears!”
Sounds like a great shampoo! Not sure if it would fit my non-asian hair though, even if it is really thick.
And I agree with you that conditioners is a marketing scam! If you need a conditioner after the shampoo, I believe that you haven’t found the right shampoo for your hair ^^