Neutrogena Exfoliating Anti Residue pH Balanced Phthalate Free Reviews Summary

Effectiveness

Pros:

• "This is great at getting the thorough clean I need when I wash without stripping the hair."
• "This product works great if you have well water."
• "This product is great for oily, color treated hair."
• "It really cleans your hair."
• "This shampoo works great to relieve an itchy scalp. I no longer suffer from a very itchy scalp."
• "It cuts through head grease and residue from products and leaves our hair fresh and clean."
• "This product cleans amazingly well, without stripping your hair."

Cons:

• "But also doesnt remove grease and oil very well."
• "Whenever I used it, my hair continued to be greasy and if anything, it made it greasier… gave me terrible dandruff even."
• "It doesn't wash the oil out very well."
• "Washed hair twice, still not clean. Yuk."
• "I have to shampoo 3+ times and oil is still leftover in small areas on my head."
• "It cleans only adequately - - pretty much like any other shampoo - - nothing much to recommend it."
• "This doesn't seem to work as well at getting out the oil and residue from my hair."

Scent

Pros:

• "The scent is very pleasant."
• "The grapefruit scent smells so fresh and citrusy. I’m obsessed with the smell."
• "The fragrance is WONDERFUL! I am a huge fan of citrus scents so the grapefruit fragrance is right up my alley. It is light, fresh, and invigorating."
• "Smells amazing! Doesn't take much for a good lather."
• "The fragrance was light and smelled fabulous."
• "Has such a sweet clean smell."
• "I love the smell of grapefruit so I decided to try it."

Cons:

• "The smell is awful. It smells like rotten grapefruit."
• "This grapefruit scent shampoo cleans your hair, but it smells like a grapefruit that's been laying open in the hot sun for 2 days."
• "But this pink grapefruit has the most obnoxious smell."
• "Unfortunately, the “grapefruit” scent smells nothing at all like grapefruit. It is more of an unpleasant chemical smell."
• "The smell of this product was meant to be grapefruit, It totally came across as vomit smell to me."
• "I am unsure if this works well because the smell is so terrible, i could smell it on my hair forever, its a very distinct bad grapefruit scent."
• "This Shampoo Smells Horrible…Almost like rotting grapefruit and cilantro."

Packaging

Pros:

• "Amazon offers it at a good price and I will definitely purchase again in the future."
• "It’s larger than I though."
• "At least they fixed the impossible to squeeze bottles."

Cons:

• "I agree with several other reviewers who have commented on the problematic shape of the container."
• "Not sure why they changed the packaging."
• "The first time I ordered the bottle was leaking and didn’t have the extra protective seal so that was annoying."
• "I don't love that there was no seal, it leads me to believe the product was either used or even replaced."
• "I just wish the bottle was bigger for the price."
• "My main complaint is that it's pricey, considering the size of the container."
• "Redesign this as a boring, typical, vertical container, and it'd be five stars."