They've changed Pantene and I'm not happy about it.
I knew they were redoing the formula again. I'd seen some television ads and they'd changed the labels on the bottles for the umpteenth time since I began. I don't believe in running out of shampoo and conditioner ever though, so I had a pretty decent sized stash of "old formula" that I was using up prior to the move.
Only, now I've run out and pulled out the new bottle of conditioner. Okay, I didn't actually run out, but I switched to the stock of new formula. Running out would have just meant a very late night run up to the 24 hour Walgreens. Either way, the result would have been the same.
I lathered, I rinsed, I reached for the conditioner. I squeezed the bottle and immediately I noticed something.
It smelled wrong.
I've been using Pantene since I was a junior in high school and figured out that it's conditioners made my waist length hair manageable. Over college, grad school, and beyond, I've found many many other women often with shoulder-length or longer hair who use Pantene. It's a sisterhood of sorts, and it was one you could identify by scent. I have, on occasion, walked past a girl and been able to tell that she used Pantene. When you smell it every day for years, it's a familiar combination of chemically scents. To me, it was one of the "clean" scents in my olfactory vocabulary.
Now...it smells sweeter. As though they decided that a shampoo and conditioner that many women use couldn't just smell clean but also had to have a sugary overtone to match with all of other super-sugary bath products that are thrown at us. I don't mind a sugar scrub or a sweeter body wash, but leave my shampoo out of it!!
Worst of all, I think the formula change might not be working with my hair. I'm not sure if it's just a winter and wind issue or a shampoo and conditioner issue. I might have to test a bottle of something else.
Call you from the shampoo aisle for suggestions...
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