Charles Worthington Results Full Volume Shampoo

...from the Results range by Charles Worthington. Although this duo had kept my long hair in great condition, I thought perhaps it might just be too heavy to suit my shorter hair.

My local branch of Boots, meanwhile had a "£7 for any two" offer on the Charles Worthington shampoos and conditioners so I went browsing to try to find something that might fit the bill. Since the back of the Full Volume shampoo bottle told me that the ...
...ultra-gloss finish", thicken without weighing hair down", "plump-up hair to enhance volume and vitality", "gently cleanse" and "uncover brilliant shine" I reasoned that this appeared to be aimed at producing the kind of look I wanted my hair to have, I decided to part with my £7 and bought the Full Volume conditioner too. (After all, I am one of life's bargain-hunters and we're in a recession - as the news ... more

I have a funny relationship with my hair. If it's short, I always want to try to get it up into a bun and if it's long I want it shorter because I think it'll look neat! (But then I am generally indecisive - I think!) So lately I had about four inches chopped off it and it's back up in line with my shoulder blades, but I also happened to be nearing the end of my Moisture Seal shampoo and conditioner from the Results range by Charles Worthington. Although this duo had kept my long hair in great condition, I thought perhaps it might just be too heavy to suit my shorter hair.

My local branch of Boots, meanwhile had a "£7 for any two" offer on the Charles Worthington shampoos and conditioners so I went browsing to try to find something that might fit the bill. Since the back of the Full Volume shampoo bottle told me that the added rice protein would moisturise, that it could produce "an ultra-gloss finish", thicken without weighing hair down", "plump-up hair to enhance volume and vitality", "gently cleanse" and "uncover brilliant shine" I reasoned that this appeared to be aimed at producing the kind of look I wanted my hair to have, I decided to part with my £7 and bought the Full Volume conditioner too. (After all, I am one of life's bargain-hunters and we're in a recession - as the news reporters seem to relish telling us all - so, if a range I use anyway has a promotional offer, it makes sense to me to stock up!)

The Results range are almost identically packaged, with the only essential difference being the colour of the bottles. Where the Moisture Seal version is bright yellow, the Full Volume range comes in an interesting shade of red that is somewhere between "tomato" and "strawberry" in my mind - I wouldn't say it was far enough into one side of the spectrum to be orange but then it's not on the pink end of the scale either. What you get from the container - as with every other product in the Results collection - is a fairly narrow bottle which looks square if you view it face-on but proves to have a shape like an oval with pinched ends that form points if seen from above. On the top is a slightly curved area which, when pressed, makes the lid pop up slightly on the opposite side so that a tiny dispensing gap becomes visible. Although it's less than a centimetre wide and just a few millimetres high, I have never had any problems with the shampoo clogging it up. Each bottle holds 250ml of shampoo and - if I buy it from Boots - it's £4.49, although I have seen selected items from the Results range in our local Sainsbury's for a few pence less. (It was £4.44 at one time but I think the price may have fallen by around ten pence now.)

Most people - actually, I imagine, virtually everyone - are going to be familiar with how to apply shampoo so, in brief, I soaked my hair and lathered about two teaspoons' worth of this clear liquid into it. I'd estimate that I will get roughly twenty-five washes from a single bottle - but that obviously depends on whether I applied it once or twice while washing my hair. (Usually, once is enough for me.) I found it provided a lot of small bubbles but it seemed to me to be quite enough to wash my hair with and it rinsed out relatively quickly so that I didn't have to spend long making sure I'd got rid of the lather. There is a definite fragrance to the shampoo - it isn't overpowering but it is detectable, even after conditioning and a final rinse (although I think the conditioner shares the same scent) - which is basically the same as that featured in Moisture Seal shampoo in the same range. It's a kind of "salon shampoo" aroma of the sort that you'd expect to find in a hairdresser's. I certainly wouldn't class it as floral, citrus, musky or in any way herbal - it's just "scented".

I don't think the name Full Volume is simply something conjured up by a marketing team to make this product sound good - in this case, I really feel that it has a volumising effect. The first time I used this on my shorter hair, I finished off by blow-drying (which always leaves my mop looking slightly bigger than normal because I find it more effective to dry my hair upside down anyway) but I was surprised to find that the volume seemed quite so pronounced after using this shampoo so I think anyone who feels that their hair is too big or bushy at the best of times might want to give this one a miss, but people with finer hair may appreciate the effects more. (I also find that my hair feels thicker but not quite so "big" if I choose to let it dry naturally.)

It also occurs to me that perhaps people with hair that tends to get greasy might find that their hair type counteracts the volumising effects slightly, as I have got what I suppose is "normal" hair with fairly dry roots. I think it would definitely suit anyone who wants their hair to have a bit more body and, for that purpose, I would recommend it to people with both long and short hair.  

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