{"id":17,"date":"2019-10-24T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/24\/tsubaki-dry-shampoo-review\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T06:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:17:40","slug":"tsubaki-dry-shampoo-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/tsubaki-dry-shampoo-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsubaki Dry Shampoo Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okay, let me get this one thing out of the way first\u2014this is quite honestly the literal opposite of what you think a dry shampoo is. In fact, I used it and was quite confident that somehow Tsubaki had royally messed up in labelling this as a dry shampoo because dry, it is absolutely NOT. I know, this is a skin care blog, not a hair care blog, but still. It\u2019s definitely not what I normally consider to be a dry shampoo, which was why I was so intrigued by it in the first place. I mean, why is a dry shampoo a liquid in a squeezy narrow-tipped bottle in the first place? <\/p>\n

Tsubaki Dry Shampoo Review<\/span><\/h2>\n

Like the difference between the definitions of toner vs. lotion, \u2018dry shampoo\u2019 means something completely different in Japan. *cue confusion*<\/span><\/p>\n

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From what I\u2019ve gathered, a dry shampoo in Japan is just a shampoo that you don\u2019t use water to rinse away\u2014not powder in a spray can that you spritz on your roots.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yup.<\/span><\/div>\n
When you use this, it\u2019s going to make your hair wet\u2014and yup, it\u2019s supposed to.<\/span>
I don\u2019t really know why, but my train of thought was somehow this was powder suspended in liquid that would absorb the oil. Hilariously OFF on that one girl, but you tried.<\/span><\/p>\n

So How Do I Use Tsubaki Dry Shampoo?<\/span><\/h2>\n

The gist of it is that you rub it in and then let your hair dry again, and your hair is somehow magically cleaner. The packaging makes it perfect for getting right in there, too\u2014you basically part your hair and squirt the product along your scalp. This is not going to be an instant refresh, FYI\u2014so if you\u2019re short on time in the AM, don\u2019t get rid of your Batiste just yet. However, this could be the one for you if you have a little bit more time at night\u2014but more on that later.<\/span><\/div>\n

The first time I used it was on two-day old hair (and was utterly confused that a dry shampoo was making my hair more wet). I was pretty unconvinced by the instructions\u2014rub product into scalp and brush through\u2014and was sure I had done it totally wrong.<\/span><\/div>\n
How was my hair so wet from a \u2018dry\u2019 shampoo? I dutifully followed the instructions though, hoping that I had missed something and should just expect this to work. At this point, I was just enjoying the cooling menthol feeling on my scalp, not thinking anything else was going to happen.<\/span>
After about twenty minutes, I went to brush my teeth and saw my hair in the mirror. <\/span><\/p>\n
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It looked AMAZING. Not just as fresh as a proper shampoo, obviously, but it was like the clock had been turned back from two-day old hair to one day old hair. My hair is thick, straight, and stereotypically Asian\u2014combined with an oily scalp, I\u2019m pretty prone to some janky-ass, greasy roots if I\u2019m not careful.<\/span>
Ok no but for real\u2014it looked great! It also smelled super fresh and minty, and not in a \u201cI\u2019m trying to cover up smells with perfume\u201d way. It literally smelled like I had just washed my hair.<\/span><\/div>\n

Every time I use this, my hair is always better when I forget about it and let the product evaporate away. I\u2019ve experimented with a couple different ways to use this and for me, the best is using it the night before I think I\u2019ll need to (kinda like that \u2018hack\u2019 of using normal dry shampoo the night before!)<\/span><\/div>\n
I\u2019ll often go to bed thinking I can get one more day out of my hair\u2014and a lot of the time I\u2019ve been wrong, and the next morning I regret not washing it the night before. The Tsubaki Dry Shampoo totally fixes that issue! I\u2019ve experimented with using this before bed and let me tell you\u2014I am impressed.<\/span>
It was kind of like waking up to day old hair every time\u2014even though it would have been two days since I washed my hair. <\/span><\/p>\n
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I think it works surprisingly well\u2014my gripe with regular dry shampoos and other hair refreshing hacks is I\u2019m often left with a still itchy, now slightly gunky scalp. Gross. The gunk comes from the powder absorbing the oil and staying on the skin, btw. With this, I get a really nice cooling sensation on my scalp (thanks to the menthol) and just that alone seems to calm down any itching from accumulating oils. I\u2019ve also noticed that even if I only use this once a week (which is about average, considering how often I wash my hair after working out) my scalp is way less prone to being hella itchy, which happens to me a lot more in the tropics.<\/span><\/div>\n

Peeking at the ingredients list, I\u2019m almost sure that this is because it has salicylic acid\u2014a BHA that quite happily dissolves oil and sebum when applied to skin, so I\u2019m sure it\u2019s doing the same on my scalp too. It has an interesting blend of nourishing oils, but also ingredients such as alcohol to ensure that the wetness does eventually evaporate away.<\/span><\/div>\n
At the end of it, this was an interesting product to use but not something I would run out and pick up again. However, I can see how some would like it!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okay, let me get this one thing out of the way first\u2014this is quite honestly the literal opposite…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[227,254],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexisadrienne.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}