We have hard water. I’ve never had it before. Well, save for the ski trips to Vail, Colorado. Oh, and the one summer I spent there working for a local veterinarian. But still, it was nothing like the hard water we have here. This hard water is exceptionally hard.

And supposedly, we have a water softener. No, we do. We do have one. But it hasn’t been working. But we didn’t really know that. Well, maybe my husband did, but he didn’t share that information with me. I’m on a need-to-know basis. So here I was, standing under the shower head, wondering why, when I was rinsing my hair of shampoo and conditioner, did it feel like my hair weighed 100 pounds?

And while I love the dry climate here, because my otherwise wavy, coarse and unruly head of hair is normally a rat’s nest without a ton of product in it, and here in Utah it’s smooth and shiny with very little product in in, it always felt like I still had stuff in it. Like it was just never clean. And no matter what I did, I couldn’t get rid of that feeling. And when I mentioned this to my husband? He said, and I quote, “use shampoo.” Duh. Really? Shampoo?

Enter Frederic Fekkai. I love him. Always have. And you know why? He makes my hair shine. And so I gave in and bought a bottle of his Apple Cider Clarifying shampoo.

Good call.

My hair feels clean again. Soft and light.

Of course, wouldn’t you know it, our water softener is now fixed. Timing is everything, right? But seriously, if you are anything like me and need to use a lot of product to get your hair to behave, you might want to look into this shampoo. Use it. Sparingly. Once a week. And it will have your hair feeling soft and clean and devoid of product. In an instant. I honestly feel ten pounds lighter…