Bath and Body Works Winter Candy Apple Shampoo and Conditioner is a limited-edition round of haircare that’s available for the Holiday 2024 season. And also, did you know Winter Candy Apple is 25 years old? So, let’s celebrate with a review of this haircare.
Ok, full disclosure I purchased this for the fragrance alone. I love a good Winter Candy Apple moment with the sweet, fruity notes of red apples and sweet and juicy orange! It’s such an iconic fragrance and one I very much associate with the Holiday season! I do wish Bath and Body Works did Vanilla Bean Noel in a round of haircare but hey, I’ll settle for Winter Candy Apple happily.
As you know Bath and Body Works into the world of haircare last Summer and it brought back such feel good memories when Victoria’s Secret used to have their Very Sexy Shampoo and Conditioner, Love Spell Shampoo and Conditioner and of course, the Beauty Rush Shampoo and Conditioners! Bath and Body Works was never big on haircare but they did have their old True Blue Spa products and I think that line had some sort of haircare in it as I recall. Am I remembering wrong? I think it was called Best Tressed or something like that! They never really did anything with their mainstream fragrances until recently when they introduced an entire range of Shampoos and Conditioners scented like their most popular fragrances. Sadly, a lot of them haven’t really appealed to me and until recently I never bothered trying these.
When I heard they were doing a Winter Candy Apple fragrance I was all about it. Now was the time to try these out. These are jumbo bottles at 16oz and each bottle is $16.95. I paid like $8 bucks? They always have different BOGOS and this season in particular they’ve had some great deals. I would never pay full-price as I don’t like the formula. I think currently the offer is buy three and get one free but even that seems a little high. I got mine on sale plus added in a coupon!
Why don’t I like them? I find the shampoo too drying and the conditioner isn’t really moisturizing enough for me. There’s just a lot of awesome in the formula for me to repurchase. I mean, I COULD be tempted if they do these in a fragrance I really love but all in all, I didn’t love the formula. It’s a pretty basically formulated shampoo and conditioner.
On the upside, it does smell amazing! It’s not as heavily scented as the body care and the fragrance seems SLIGHTLY less sweet and fruity but it’s a fairly nice representation of Winter Candy Apple. I loved it was scented like one of my fav seasonal scents! I do wish they’d have done it in other Holiday scents but sadly, this was the only one they went with! The scent is fairly nice in the shower but I wouldn’t say it left my hair smelling like Winter Candy Apple for very long. The scent seemed to wash away in the shower which made me terribly sad! I wish it lingered!
Do you need it? If it goes on sale sure, why not? But honestly, the haircare at Bath and Body Works leaves a lot to be desired.
Anyone try these? Thoughts?
