I was offered the opportunity to try the Kao Asience Shine Therapy hair care range a while ago. Not having success with the Asience Inner Shine range, I was a little apprehensive. Would it kill my hair? It took me a while to steel myself enough to actually use it.
You might have seen this range in the local pharmacies already. The pink bottles are hard to miss.
Happily, I will tell you that this range of Asience Shine Therapy hair care did NOT kill my hair. Well, it did not spin my hair into straw at any rate.
Like the Inner Shine line (yellow bottles), Shine Therapy has a strong scent. Its that sort of floral scent that lingers and you either love it for giving you that just washed feel, or hate it for being too scented. My advise is to take a big hearty sniff before buying.
The shampoo isn’t very runny and I found that it lathers up quite well with just a little, and it cleans the hair quite well too. The conditioner and treatment are quite similar for me. They are both thick and both leave your hair feeling quite tangle free. As they all smell alike, you might expect the rather strong scent to remain on your hair after washing.
I used these shampoos straight for about a month, and I did not notice my hair drying out which was very fortunate. My hair was nice and manageable, but I did not notice it being any shinier. This Shine Therapy range is also targeted “damaged, dull & brittle coloured, rebonded or permed hair”. In other words, hair that has been chemically treated.
I can’t say its been amazing for my hair, but it wasn’t bad either. The only fly in the ointment is that after a month’s use straight, I discovered my hair dropping a little more than usual. I didn’t use anything else in the interim so I’m guessing this range might have contributed to the hair loss, so I’ve stopped using it for a while now.
Pros: Inexpensive, Hair feels clean, smooth and tangle free
Cons: Scent is rather strong, Appeared to contribute to my hair loss
I do like how this line detangles my hair without it drying out the way Deep Nourish/Inner Shine did, so what I still do sometimes, is use the shampoo and conditioner once in a while. This way, I figure there is no build up, and there won’t be excess hair loss 🙂 Also, I will actually use it up 😛
Have you tried this one? Does it work for you?
Paris B
The Kao Asience Shine Therapy shampoo and conditioner retails at RM14.90/220ml and RM26.80/530ml and the Treatment retails at RM26.80/180g at most major pharmacies and supermarkets.
cat says
April 7, 2011 at 6:45 pmI am dropping hair as well. used to have thicker hair but not anymore sigh.. so this is not for me then. Any other suggestions for hair loss?
ParisB says
April 10, 2011 at 2:34 pmThing is, I don’t have a hair loss problem! Hence my concern when my hair started dropping more than usual after using this one. Sorry I can’t help with hair loss cures.
makeup.addict says
April 7, 2011 at 7:31 pmSo Paris, I was just wondering, what are the shampoo’s, conditioner’s and hair treatment’s that you do like and would recommend to people? I am currently using the whole of Pureology Super Straight Line and let me tell you, it ain’t doing anything magic to my hair except making the $$ in my checking account become less and less as 1 bottle of the stuff costs RM100+. I always get suckered in by brand names. *sigh*
ParisB says
April 10, 2011 at 2:36 pmI haven’t tried Pureology although I have heard a lot of good things about it too. So sorry it didn’t work for you since its pricey 🙁 I usually have quite good luck with normal off the shelf hair care. I liked Dove when I was using it, so I might go back to that one. On the other end of the scale, I really like Kerastase hair treatments and I’m thinking of trying their regular hair care (Redken doesn’t work for me though). I still haven’t found a brand/hair care product that I love so much I have to get everyone to try it so I’m really still looking myself 😀
Grace says
April 7, 2011 at 8:16 pmI was with mum at Watsons last week and I saw them. Mum said she wanted to try them after we’re done with our shampoo in the bathroom. But if it could lead to hairloss, don’t think I’d be interested! Lol! 😀
ParisB says
April 10, 2011 at 2:37 pmhaha… perhaps its just me that’s experiencing this? After all, everyone else loves the Inner Shine range but me 😛
eliza says
April 7, 2011 at 10:42 pmhaa~! my scalp grew danfruffs =(
didn’t drop hair though~
ParisB says
April 10, 2011 at 2:37 pmYikes! Dandruff! About as bad as hair loss eh?
Kai says
April 8, 2011 at 3:29 ammy hair falls a lot, particularly in the shower. for me the only shampoo/conditioner set that worked at keeping it not falling out all the time is the John Frieda Root Awakening (green tube) for Breakage Prone hair. however it’s not super moisturizing and while my hair fell out less and it’s not DRYING, it also didn’t make my hair as shiny as other asian brands does :\ not sure if you can find this shampoo over at where you are though, but in US it’s pretty cheap (around $5 a bottle).
i’m looking for a good asian brand that works at keep hair ON my head. any recs? :\
ParisB says
April 10, 2011 at 2:39 pmI don’t think we get John Frieda here but I haven’t had a lot of luck with Asian brand hair care to be honest!
Woon says
April 9, 2011 at 11:46 ami used the inner shine rage before, how to describe the smell… kind of like flora and close to “Indian” smell???
the result just so so… i thought will be amazing just like the model appear in the advertisement. Nowadays i switch to hand&shoulder so far so good… my hair actually treated well… i am still using hair&shoulder hair fall rage…i think is because of sunflower seed oil maybe ^^
ParisB says
April 10, 2011 at 2:53 pmAt least your hair didn’t turn to hay as mine did 😛
Darla says
April 11, 2011 at 11:17 pmI tried these range and hated them the first time. Went back to tsubaki. But after deciding to give asience another go, to my surprise they seem to work and hair looks better with more volume. I’m confused now haha..
yuki says
April 13, 2011 at 10:17 pmBought tsubaki by accident and am loving it!!! Not gonna buy that Scwarkopf (can’t spell) anymore… hahaha… that giant conditioner costs me RM110 per bottle~~
The fragrance of the Tsubaki conditioner stays for a loooong time, which I like 🙂
glad that this ascience line worked out for ya! I still have samples of the gold one~~ improved formula of course… yet to try them out as their first ones made my hair horribly dry
Sheryl bhonsle says
July 26, 2013 at 11:25 amWhat’s a good Asian hair brand that you would suggest. Cause I’m willing to try them out !! Willing for suggestions !! Thanks !!!