Conditioners and Heat Protection Products
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After the Sliced Bread episode on shampoo, a number of listeners got in touch to request a follow-up episode on conditioners. So of course, we obliged.
Listener Katie wanted to know what they actually do to our hair, if they can deliver on promises for shinier, smoother, or stronger locks – and whether leave-in treatments could be more effective than conditioners you wash off in the shower?
Listener Franziska also got in touch, as she wondered if we could also have a look at heat protection products. She wanted to know what’s in them, can they offer our hair any protection while styling, and is there a difference between the effectiveness of sprays or creams?
Greg Foot rinses out the claims on both, speaking once again to the experts from Shampoo – also available on BBC Sounds.
This series, we’re testing and investigating your suggested wonder-products. If you’ve seen an ad, trend or fad, and wonder if there’s any evidence to back up a claim, drop us an email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or you can send us a voice note to our WhatsApp number: 07543 306807.
Presenter: Greg Foot Producer: Kate Holdsworth
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| 0:39.9 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates your suggested wonder products |
| 0:45.1 | to find out if they are indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS. |
| 0:50.1 | And gosh, have there been a lot of requests for this one? |
| 0:53.0 | Listener Jenny emailed Slice. |
| 0:54.6 | Dotbread at BBC.co.com to say, after your shampoo episode, please, please make one on conditioner. |
| 1:01.6 | Well, Jenny, here it is. We got a bunch of WhatsApp voice messages in two on 07-443-307. |
| 1:08.9 | Here is Katie Singleton in Kenya. Hi Greg. So I was washing my hair after your |
| 1:15.7 | fibrillous shampoo episode and I wanted to know what is the actual point of conditioner? |
| 1:21.5 | What does it do to your hair? You get all sorts of different things promised on the different |
| 1:25.4 | bottles like volumising or softness. |
| 1:28.5 | But do they actually do anything? |
| 1:30.6 | And there are lots of leave-in conditioners and leave-in treatments. |
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