Damaged Hot Oil Treatment

Ingredients: Cetearyl Alcohol and Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Fair Trade Vanilla Absolute, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Cationic Guar Gam, Sodium Bicarbonate, Almond Oil, Organic Avocado Oil, Perfume and Citric Acid

Vegan

 This is one of the new hair products that have been designed by Lush using oils in the treatment. Damaged is a hexagonal block of hard oil that is attached to a wooden stirrer and is so small, you could easily overlook it. Definitely don't!

I have a love/hate relationship with my hair, going months without it being cut and generally leaving it in a sorry state of affairs and looking pretty miserable. Since discovering the deep treatment hair care products designed by Lush, Roots has become a firm favourite and my trusty go to product when my hair is looking terrible along with H'Suan Wen Hua to get my hair looking somewhat normal!

I have to admit, I do blow dry my hair every 2/3 days and don't use any heat protecting spray/serum as I find that if it dries naturally, it will dry limp and lifeless whereas if I blow dry it, I'll have volume and bounce all day but, of course, this does come at a cost to my hair and the ends are split most of the time and can feel quite dry.

I saw this on the shelf and just going by the name alone, picked one up and put it in my basket and forgot about it until a couple of days ago and decided to try it out after feeling pretty down about the good old British weather!

Damaged has a primarily vanilla scent which is quite light and absolutely gorgeous with a little hint of added sweetness. Vanilla absolute is known for its de - stressing, uplifting and aphrodisiac qualities ;) and is also rich in vitamins too. The Olive Oil is also an extremely useful ingredient as it helps to increase the tensile strength of hair and gently treating the scalp; the Almond oil adds shine and softens the entire hair shaft and finally, the Avocado oil adds strength, shine and condition to your hair.

This is quite an easy treatment to make. Simply follow the instructions carefully and don't add all the water at once. When I poured the water in first, I only covered the cube to the top and stirred until it had become a thick paste and just kept adding small amounts until the oils had all dissolved. I was left with a third of a cup of product that was similar in texture and thickness/ consistency to Roots. I then applied it to my hair using the stirrer but it felt quite odd putting something warm on my head but I left it for half an hour and jumped in the shower.

Lush suggests you wash your hair with your normal shampoo to make sure you get all the product out otherwise like me, you'll have to get back in the shower to wash it out so that it doesn't dry and you end up with lumps of oil in your hair. Once it was all out, I didn't worry about conditioning as the treatment had just done that. After drying it, it was beautifully soft, sleek, shiny and had a beautiful subtle vanilla fragrance. As those who use Fairly Traded Honey will know it is quite a powerful scent that lasts but Damaged manages to hold its own against it and my hair smelt wonderful for the next 24 hours.

One of the other great things about this product is that because I didn't use it all at once, I still have enough mixture to do another mask making it well worth its price tag. This is an amazing product that I will certainly be repurchasing it whenever my hair is in need of some TLC.

5*/5*

£6.50 for 20g

The amount of mixture I had at the end