L’Oreal Professional Serie Expert Silver shampoo vs Swiss O Par Silver shampoo

Unless you have warm blond colour you certainly fight that yellow braziness that takes over your nice cool tone blond within just few weeks after the colouration. Till last October I was blond and I really hated when it happened. Hair doesn’t look nice anymore and you feel like you need to colour it again. But colouring hair every 4 weeks is of course not a good idea (especially in case of light colours). So in order to keep the colour at its best, I used silver shampoo (which is not silver at all) every 4th wash. So far I tried these two I’m going to write about but there are few more on the market that I may try once I go back to blond (which I will, even after 10 months I cannot get used to dark hair).

Price: differs a lot, it depends where you buy these shampoos. L’Oreal Professional Expert Silver costs from 9 to 14€ for 250 ml. You can buy it either through your hairdresser, specialised hair stores or at websites like lookfantastic.com, Amazon, bg.strawberrynet.com, allbeauty.com. I remember paying 10€ for it but I don’t remember where I bought it. The best price is currently at allbeauty.com. Swiss O Par Silver shampoo costs also different prices. I bought mine in DM store in Slovakia and it was about 5€. German Amazon sells it for 8€ for example. So I paid double price for L’Oreal compared to Swiss O Par.

(right) L’Oreal Professional Serie Expert Silver shampoo, Swiss O Par Silver shampoo (left)

Colour and texture: both shampoos have the same colour- dark blue. What makes a difference is the texture. While L’Oreal shampoo has very thick creamy consistency, something like John Frieda shampoos, Swiss O Par is a very runny liquid.

Application and results: these silver shampoos are applied as regular shampoos (wet your hair and massage the shampoo into the hair, then rinse well). As said before I recommend using them every 4th wash. Don’t use it more often as they tend to dry hair. I notice that to deliver the same result, you need to use twice as much Swiss O Par shampoo as L’Oreal one (it takes 2 applications of Swiss O Par to get the same effect as with one L’Oreal application). Both shampoos remove braziness quite well, hair colour looks fresh and cool tone. I recommend using them regularly, if you don’t apply them for long time, they won’t be strong enough to get rid of all braziness and you’ll end up colouring your hair sooner than needed.

Final verdict: it depends on the personal choice because they deliver the same effect at the same price (you use double amount of Swiss O Par for half a price of L’Oreal). The question is if you are willing to order online and wait for delivery or rather buy it in the drugstore (if your drugstore carries Swiss O Par). Also, since you use small amount of product in case of L’Oreal, you don’t use up as many bottles as Swiss O Par so you don’t need to rebuy it very often and it’s healthier for the environment.