Suave = Cheap bullcrap. Makes my hair itch like hell.

I've used many a Suave product over the years and think they are as good if not better than the original products. I once used a Suave that was supposed to be a Biolage knockoff and I liked the Suave better! Its much more affordable and lets face it they everyone uses the same ingredients!

I really like Suave for the money it's a great shampoo. I don't have problems with it at all. I would keep looking at it though and it still seems to do animal testing. There is no not tested on animals label. I am trying not to use it for that reason.

Suave is kind of like the Designer Impostors of hair care products. Most of their scents smell like Herbal Essences or other brands. Basically, you get similar quality products at a cheaper price. I don't think it's a mind-blowing brand, but if you're short on cash, it'll get your hair clean!

I decided to switch to Suave after buying a bottle on a family trip where I ran out of expensive Loma conditioner. It was cheap ($2) and I figured I'd only be using it until I got back home (+ I'm a college student so I didn't have bundles of cash to spend anyway). Little did I know how well this stuff worked & boy was I in for a surprise. My hairstylist had commented on the dryness of my hair before, but never again after I bought the Suave Humectant conditioner (and I'm pretty sure she knows hair better than most). The conditioner worked so well that I actually started using the Humectant shampoo after I ran out of my other brand (Biolage).


My only piece of advice to the people who have trouble with it leaving residue: Take some time and wash it out thoroughly before you complain about how much is left in your hair. I know it takes a bit longer, but if you do it right there's a good chance you'll get the same result as the more expensive stuff.




Pros: Extremely low price, works as well as Biolage IF you're willing to take the time to wash it out. (It takes longer than some other brands)



Cons: It takes a longer amount of time to wash out (especially the conditioner)- which sometimes a bit of a drag when you're late for class.

I quit using it when they discontinued their "normal" shampoo. Everything now is some strange scent, or for extra body, or for oily hair, or dry hair. I just want shampoo that washes my hair, and doesn't leave it smelling like strawberries.

  I have used many Suave shampoos and conditioners over the years.  This year I had to give up on conditioner because it was making my hair come out bad.  So I have only been using the suave shampoos.  It seems to me lately that the Suave shampoos don't get my hair clean as they used to, and they don't seem to smell as nice either.  Maybe it's just me but I've been dissapointed in Suave lately.  I feel like I have to was my hair with the stuff twice in a row just to get it clean.

  My hubby uses the Suave shampoo as well and he feels the same way as I do about it. :-)

It just doesn't seem to work anymore, like they are using less potent ingredients or something.

I was short on cash, and had no choice than to buy a less expensive shampoo and conditioner than the one i usually buy. WalMart had suave professionals sleek shampoo and conditioner on sale so i decided to buy it. After using it for a few weeks now, my hair is sooo much softer than before. I love it! I will be sticking to suave professionals from now on :)

Our household could be a commercial for Suave products.  We use the hair products, body wash and antipersperant.  Not only are the products cheap, but works as well as brands twice the price.  I will admit I'm weird- but I also care about the shampoos and soaps matching in color with my bathrooms.  I am happy to say that Suave offers all of the colors that I need and looks good in my bathrooms.  (TOLD you I was weird!)

There are a few products from Suave that I think work great. I really like the Suave Sleek shampoo,conditioner and the Sleek Smoothing Creme. Ever since I tried it I don't use anything else. I have even tried more expensive brands and nothing compares to this. Usually if you continue to use a hair product over time it doesn't seem to work as well but, it works great everytime I use it. It makes my hair easy to manage, soft and full of body. I like to apply the Smoothing Creme to the ends before I blow dry and my naturally wavy hair stays straight all day. I also think if you have oily hair that the Clarifying Shampoo works great too.

This just made my hair feel heavy, coated and dull.  I even have soft water and rinse well. Won't be buying this again.

Suave is the best - you can find it in about every drugstore, grocery store, and mass items store (Target, etc.) and all of their stuff is $3 or less. I have been using it for years - the naturals line smells so good, but the formula can be thin and the shampoo can irritate eyes. I just use a lot and buy another bottle of $1 conditioner, or close my eyes tight.

Then they introduced a Professionals line - I have never used Matrix or Biolage or anything, but after going out to buy a bottle of Matrix sleek.look, my hair seemed to turn out better when I used Suave! I not only wasted $15 on the Matrix bottle, I found that the drugstore brand worked better. If you want a great, smooth look with no flyaways, buy the whole Suave Professoinals sleek line - you'll only spend about $10 anyway.

I've come to like their Radiant Brunette shampoo and conditioner from their Professionals line.

I'm a hairsalon-brand junkie turned college student. I was forced, for lack of money, to buy Suave. I thought it was going to be horrible, but I got a surprise. I bought the Radient Brunette shampoo and conditioner. It smelled the same as Redken's or John Frieda's and worked just as good. I think it was $2.50 a bottle compared to the brand's $7+ per bottle. I also used to use Matrix Sleek Look to style my hair. I swear by that stuff. I bought the Suave imitation of it and compared them side by side. Matrix's was a little thicker, but overall I couldn't tell them apart in how they made my hair feel. Overall I think it's a great brand and I can spend my money (that would be used for salon brands) on other things = )

SKIN CREAM. I'll put Suave Skin Therapy Natural Oatmeal Fragrance Free Moisturizer up against ANYBODY. (The fragranced version smells nice but my skin doesn't like perfume on it.) I used to use Curel because it was one of the few products on the market that eschewed mineral oil and used glycerin/petrolatum as the key ingredients. But Suave uses roughly the same now and at about half the price (3.99!): Water, White Petrolatum, Glycerin, Stearic Acid, Glycol Stearate, Colloidal Oatmeal, Hellanthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Sterols, Lecithin, ocopheryl Acetate, Retinyl Palmitate, Urea, Collagen Amino Acids, Sodium Stearoyl Lactate, Mineral Water, Sodium PCA, Potassium Lactate, Lactic Acid, Cetyl Alcohol, Glyceryl Stearate, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Carbomer, Stearamide AMP, Ethylene Brassylate, Trolamine, Corn Oil, Disodium EDTA, Methylparaben, DMDM Hydantoin, BHT, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891) SHAMPOO. Listen to Consumer Reports: shampoos are all essentially the same ingredients; you can pay a lot if you want to the hoidy-toidy label on your bathroom shelf but you're not getting much more for the dough. Suave shampoos work for me.

As a guy, I love the cheap price of the product. . .but my ex-girlfriends usually hated the shampoo and blamed all their hair troubles on this stuff. . .guess that's a middle review. . .

I have really mixed feelings about Suave. My hair is thick and curly/wavy. I agree that it makes my hair clean, but my hair isnt nearly as soft as I would like it to be. The stuff does smell good. But so do other brands. I pretty much just use this crap, and tolerate it while I'm super broke...so that I have time to scrape change for something of a better quality

I can't use it.It makes my hair frizzy.It must be some crappy ingredience.

I use this product from time to time. I alternate between this one and others.

This is really good for people who are on a budget. The daily clarifying shampoo gets out EVERYTHING! Sure, there are better shampoos and conditioners, but if on a budget, Suave will still do the job. Either I have really silky perfect hair, or suave does a good job. Cuz I just used suave and I've never felt hair silkier than mine. Suave is good for a good price.

i just came back from a family camp, and there was a girl there in her 20s (like me) and she had gorgeous hair. it was shiny, wavy, not oily, and detangled. i was in the bathrooms when she was taking a shower and i looked what shampooo she was using because it was on the floor. i was expecting john frienda, biolage, or at least pantene or herbal essences. but no, suave!! it was the ocean kind. shampoo and conditioner. so tommrorow i am heading straigt to brooks!!

I use the condition-only method (absolutely no shampoo) and Suave conditioners are great for that. My personal favorite is Milk & Honey. The clarifying is great for preventing build-up, as well.

I don't mind using Suave shampoo at all, even though my hair is colored and needs some special attention. Shampoo is pretty much shampoo, and suave has a large selection at a great price. I won't, however , use their conditioners. They are just not effective, not only for my dyed hair, but in my opinion for other hair types. So for the price, Go for the shampoo, but if you need a good conditioner~look elsewhere!

Cheap product, cheap price. This shampoo COMPLETLEY stripped my hair of any moisture whatsoever. My hair was so dry and frizzy and I had to use my old shampoo over it just to wash it out!

I think that Suave is great. It's just like every other shampoo, it works with some people's hair and some not. It just depends. I use the Lavender Shampoo and my hair smells like lavender even if I haven't washed my hair in a couple of days. My boyfriend loves the smell too.

I am a total cheapskate so I go through a lot of Suave shampoo. I can't see spending several dollars for a bottle of essentially soap. I do find that my hair seems to build a tolerance to several of their shampoos, so I switch types after each bottle. I do agree that their professional series shampoo does seem better than their other offerings. The only uncomfortable thing about their shampoo is that some of them smell good enough to eat/drink and I'm not sure I really want to walk around all day smelling like a fruit tray.

You cannot beat Suave when it comes to value for the price. I'm on a very tight budget since I'm in college, and their shampoos and conditioners work quite well. I would recommend their professional series which basically try to mimic salon shampoo, and their naturals smell delicious. For those of us who don't have a lot of money to spend, it's a great choice. I have very fine and rather dry hair, and their products have worked very well for me.

There is no way I would replace my normal hair products with this stuff. It just doesn't clean good enough...almost as bad as that other generic stuff....I think they call it White Rain! If you really care for your hair, you should either go with Paul Mitchell or Biolage. If you MUST buy from a discount store, even though you should avoid this at all costs, I would probably say Pantene or Vidal Sassoon is the best out of the lower class shampoo choices....

Alot of People like to knock on Suave because of it's modest price, don't let that fool you. Suave make damn good stuff. Their Clarifying shampoo totally rocks, it is like the only shampoo that gets %100 of the hairspray, gels, out of my hair with no build up. I also have used Paul Mitchell level 2 shampoo, and it comes nowhere close to getting all the build up out of my hair, due to using hairsprays, gels and etc. and the Paul Mitchell level 2 is designed to get these impurities out, it just doesn't. Suave you made me a believer. You can't go by the price or how pretty the bottle looks, you go by what is inside the bottle you freaking losers.

cheap n good

This is a terrible product. I have used it and did not like it. The shampoo left my hair dry, frizzy and wavy (i have straight hair) The conditioner detangles but doesn't leave hair soft and doesn't repair split ends. I'll never use it again!

I love suave, The prices are good and I never have any complaints about my hair when I use it. Suave has so many different kinds for all different hair types and they all smell great. Some people don't buy it because it's cheap but I think it's silly to waste money on something that isn't any better than the the cheap stuff. What I love the most is the hairspray because it doesn't cause flakes and it holds without stickiness

i don't care what the commercials say, this dries out your hair

It depends on what Suave product you buy. I have had good luck with the Thermasilk imitaion, along with the coconut (which smells so good) but I stay away from the styling products. The hair sprays don't hold my hair at all & the gels are sticky. My kids weren't impressed with the Suave kids shampoo & conditioner in one either...left their hair tangled & gummy feeling. I would recommend the Thermasilk imitator one though....and the price is right.

This is the best gel ever made. It not only smells good, it holds hair very well. It's the best.

Suave sucks! It's too watered down. The conditioner does not work. It's just like water. Of course, price goes with quality.

This product is very good because it's exactly like Herbal Essence, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper. It even has the same fragrances, but I only get it when I'm really broke as a joke.

It might be cheap, but it works hella good. If you're on a budget but want to wash your hair at a cheap price, then you can buy these products, feel good, have good looking hair, and have money in your pockets.

Suave totally sucks a phatty! The conditioner leaves tons of build-up which turns your hair into one huge knot making it totally unamanageable. Knots all day long. The only good thing I have to say about it is that it is oil free.

The best in hairspray, mousse and gel. Smells good too. Does not dry out hair. Cheaper than other brands.

Suave is the only hair product I use to wash my hair. For some reason it works really well with my hair.

Wide variety of products for all hair types. Shampoo, conditioner, hairspray, etc. Great line. Leaves hair feeling clean and light. Great prices. Not expensive. Great deal. All products including deodorant are great!

This product should be removed from shelves ASAP. Hair is left sticky after shower. Conditioner won't leave hair soft. Hair products such as hair spray damage hair from the amount of alcohol in it.

Suave is a product at a fair price. It definitely accomplishes the task and is perfect for the frugal. I feel cheap when buying this product, almost inferior financially. But I'm not the wealthiest man and I probably have too big an ego.

I have not had good experiences with Suave. When I buy the 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner it doesn't leave my hair soft. The hairspray also isn't very helpful- it doesn't hold hair very long.

Yuk, the shampoo strips my hair of any shine and the conditioner leaves a heavy build up..yeah it is cheap, but it does not work.

The Humectant shampoo and conditioner make my hair look and feel wonderful, and at less than $2 a bottle, it's a really good bargain.

The designer & Pantene copycat formulas work great.