Redken All Soft Shampoo Review: Soft Dry Hair Without the Weight?

If you have landed on this Redken All Soft Shampoo review, your hair probably feels dry, rough at the ends or quick to frizz, and you want to know whether a salon-shelf bottle earns its price over whatever sits in the supermarket aisle. This Redken All Soft Shampoo review answers that from the listing and from what buyers describe, not from the marketing copy.

The headline numbers are strong. The listing shows a 4.6 average across 26,979 ratings, #25 in Hair Shampoo and #914 across all of Beauty and Personal Care. That is a very large base of buyers for one shampoo, and an average that holds at 4.6 over that many people suggests it does not let many of them down.

I am Grace Bennett, and I assess hair and skin formulas with a fairly low tolerance for marketing. How this shampoo feels, smells and behaves is described below in its buyers' terms, and credited to them each time. The facts about size, claims and ingredients come straight from the listing. Where the two disagree, or where the listing looks wrong, you will hear about it.

Argan Oil, Anti-Static and Alcohol Free: Redken's Own Claims

Start with the page itself, because it is more specific than many shampoo listings and stranger in one place. This is the 1000 ml bottle, also given as 33.8 fluid ounces, with an item weight of 2.11 pounds. Those three figures agree with each other, which is not something you can take for granted in this category.

• Hair type: dry
• Item form: liquid
• Scent name: Argan Oil
• Product benefits: an argan oil enriched shampoo that gently cleanses and softens, leaving hair soft, manageable and shiny
• Special feature: anti-static
• Free from: alcohol
• Suitable hair color: all hair colors
• Recommended uses: salon and spa
• Brand: Redken, with L'Oreal Professionnel named as the manufacturer

Read as a buyer, that promise is narrow and sensible. It is a softening shampoo for dry hair. It does not claim to repair damage, protect colour, grow hair or treat your scalp, and you should not credit it with any of those things just because the bottle looks professional.

The anti-static feature is the one line that speaks to frizz and flyaways, which is where many people with dry hair notice the problem most. The alcohol-free note is also worth having, since it is the only ingredient exclusion the listing commits to. Argan oil appears twice, as the scent name and in the benefits line, but the page never says how much of it the formula contains.

There is no full ingredient list on the page either. So anything you read elsewhere about what else is inside this bottle is not something the rest of this Redken All Soft Shampoo review can confirm or deny.

An Exfoliating Acid on a Softening Shampoo's Spec Sheet

One field does not fit. Under active ingredients, the listing gives salicylic acid. For a shampoo sold on softness, argan oil and dry hair, that entry looks like template data carried over from another product type rather than a description of this formula.

I would not build any expectation on it. Nothing else on the page mentions exfoliation, scalp care or any benefit you would link to that ingredient, and none of the buyers describes anything of the kind. The product benefits line, which does read as written for this bottle, talks only about gentle cleansing and softening.

Treat it as a listing error until the brand says otherwise. If you have a specific reason to avoid salicylic acid, check the ingredient panel on the bottle you receive rather than trusting either reading of the page. The advice cuts both ways: do not buy it expecting a scalp treatment, and do not rule it out purely because of one field that seems to have been filled in by mistake.

How Redken All Soft Shampoo Feels on Dry, Frizzy Ends

Softness is the claim, and it is also the word buyers reach for most. Nearly every buyer who describes the result in any detail mentions hair that feels softer, smoother or easier to manage afterwards, which lines up neatly with what the listing says the shampoo is for.

One buyer with dry, dull hair describes it feeling far softer and smoother, much easier to manage and less dry, and adds that it did not weigh her hair down. Another says her hair was noticeably soft and smooth after washing, and manageable, which she clearly values in a shampoo. A third, whose hair had become dehydrated and brittle as she got older, says it is in a better state after a month.

The most useful account comes from a buyer with very frizzy hair, especially towards the ends. She had just cut back brown box-dyed hair and describes her ends as badly fried. She credits the shampoo and conditioner together with rescuing those ends and restoring moisture without weighing her hair down.

She also hedges on shine, saying she would not call her hair necessarily shinier. That hedge matters. The listing promises soft, manageable and shiny hair, and buyers back up the first two far more readily than the third. One buyer does mention a healthy-looking finish, but if shine is your main goal, the evidence is weaker than it is for softness.

Frizz gets two mentions. The box-dyed buyer talks about frizz at her ends, and a bleach blonde buyer describes her hair as frizz-free now. Put that next to the anti-static feature on the listing and you have a reasonable, though not heavily evidenced, case that All Soft helps hair that puffs up when it is dry.

Fine and Blonde Hair: Does Redken All Soft Weigh It Down?

This is the doubt I would raise first. My own hair is fine and straight, and a shampoo sold on richness and softness is exactly the kind of product that can leave hair like mine limp by the afternoon. So the buyers with fine hair deserve a close read.

The clearest account comes from a buyer with fine, blonde, dry hair. She says she felt a difference as soon as the shampoo went in, and that the next day her hair still felt clean and soft, which she says it usually does not. Her routine was deliberately light: this shampoo, the brand's purple conditioner, a detangler and nothing else, with no heat tools.

Two other buyers say plainly that All Soft moisturised without weighing their hair down, one of them the buyer with the fried, frizzy ends. None of the buyers complains of greasy roots, flat hair or residue. That silence is encouraging, although only a few fine-haired buyers speak up, so read it as a promising sign rather than a guarantee.

If your hair is fine, a few habits lower the risk with any softening shampoo:

• Concentrate the shampoo at the scalp and let the rinse carry it through the lengths
• Use less than you think, since one buyer says a little goes a long way
• Keep conditioner on the mid-lengths and ends rather than the roots
• Judge it on the second day, which is when weigh-down usually shows

Bleached, Box-Dyed and Postpartum-Dry Hair on Redken All Soft

A noticeable share of the buyers who rate All Soft most highly have hair that has been through something. One is a bleach blonde whose hair was always dry and brittle and got worse postpartum. Another had box-dyed hair with fried ends. A third, with fine blonde hair, describes it as dry before she started.

The bleach blonde buyer is the most emphatic. She describes searching widely for something to bring her hair back and now calls it super soft, frizz-free and better smelling than ever. That is a strong result from someone with a difficult starting point, and it speaks directly to the brittle, over-processed feel that bleached hair so often has.

Be careful about what this does and does not show. The listing does not claim to be colour-safe or to protect dyed or bleached hair. Its suitable hair color field reads all hair colors, which describes who can use it, not how it treats colour. None of the buyers mentions colour fading or holding, either way.

So the honest conclusion is limited but useful. If your coloured or bleached hair mainly feels dry and rough, buyers in exactly that position report softness. If keeping a colour vivid is the priority, a shampoo that states colour care outright is the safer choice, and our guide to the best shampoo for colored hair is built around that question.

Specs and Scores for the Redken All Soft Litre

Here is the whole picture in one place, with my scores out of 10 next to the listing facts.

Softness scores highest in this Redken All Soft Shampoo review because it is both what the listing promises and what buyers describe most. Scent and lather sit lower, not because anyone disliked the smell, but because almost nobody describes the lather at all. Value is the lowest score, for reasons covered further down.

Cleansing scores well on the strength of one clear account. A buyer says it feels gentle while still cleaning her hair really well, leaving it fresh and clean without feeling dry or stripped. The fine-haired buyer whose hair still felt clean the next day supports the same point from a different angle.

The Argan Oil Scent, the Lather and That Conditioner Smell

The listing gives the scent name as argan oil, which tells you the fragrance direction but not much about how it smells in the shower. Buyers fill some of the gap. One calls the shampoo lovely-smelling, another says it smells great, and a third finds the scent pleasant without being too strong or lingering heavily on her hair.

That last point matters if you dislike perfumed hair products. Her account suggests the fragrance is there while you wash and fades rather than following you around all day. The bleach blonde buyer, meanwhile, says her hair smells better than ever, so the scent clearly registers for some people.

One scent complaint does appear, and it is easy to misread. A buyer who liked the shampoo's smell says the matching conditioner almost smelled like box hair dye to her. That comment is about the conditioner, not this shampoo, so it should not put you off All Soft Shampoo on its own.

Lather is where the evidence runs out. One buyer says it is easy to work through her hair and leaves a clean feeling after rinsing, and another calls the formula luxurious. Nobody describes how much foam you get, so if a big, rich lather is part of what you enjoy about washing your hair, you will be finding that out for yourself.

A Litre of Redken All Soft: Dosing and How Many Washes It Holds

A litre of shampoo is a lot of washes, and that is central to whether this bottle makes sense for you. One buyer calls the 1-liter size great if you shampoo regularly, and another says a little goes a long way, which is the combination you want from a large salon bottle.

There is a catch in the reviews, though. One buyer describes a small travel-size bottle and says that with short hair it will last months. That does not match this 1000 ml listing, which tells you the reviews on the page cover more than one bottle size. Treat any remark about the bottle being small, or about the price for the size, as specific to whichever bottle that buyer bought.

No buyer gives a number of weeks for a full litre, so any estimate depends on you. These are the variables that decide it:

• Hair length and thickness, since long or dense hair needs more product per wash
• How often you wash, with daily washers going through a bottle far faster
• Whether you shampoo twice per wash or once
• How much you pour, given one buyer's point that a little goes a long way

A sensible starting amount is a small pool in your palm, worked in at the scalp, adding more only if it will not spread. On shorter hair you may need noticeably less. If you want to check the current size options and whether a smaller bottle suits your washing habits better, you can see Redken All Soft Shampoo on Amazon.

Conditioner or Mask After Redken All Soft?

This is the point most people skip, and it changes how you should read every positive buyer account. Several of the happiest buyers did not use the shampoo alone. One used it with the All Soft conditioner, another with the brand's purple conditioner and a detangler, and the box-dyed buyer used the matching conditioner and plans to add a mask from the same line.

That means some of the softness credited to All Soft Shampoo is really a routine result. It does not undercut the shampoo, since one that left hair stripped would fight any conditioner you used afterwards, and one buyer specifically says hers felt clean without feeling dry. But you should not expect a shampoo on its own to do a conditioner's job.

In practice, pair it with a conditioner every wash if your hair is dry. If your ends are genuinely damaged or brittle, a weekly treatment is worth considering, and our roundup of the best hair masks covers that step. For very damaged ends, K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask is one leave-in option to look at alongside a gentle shampoo like this.

Thin Spots in the Redken All Soft Evidence

The positive picture is real, but the detailed written accounts of how this shampoo performs are far fewer than the 26,979 ratings might lead you to expect. Several gaps are worth naming plainly before you spend salon money.

• Price: the one buyer who gave four stars rather than five took the star off for price, calling the cost humbling for the size she bought
• Shine: the listing promises it, but the clearest buyer comment on shine is a hedge
• Lather: almost no buyer describes it
• Ingredients: there is no full list on the page, and the one active ingredient listed looks wrong
• Colour care: no claim on the listing and no buyer comment about colour

Two buyer comments also need careful handling. One buyer calls the formula pH-balanced. That is her description, and the listing says nothing about pH, so do not treat it as a stated feature of this Redken All Soft Shampoo.

Another buyer says that after a month she noticed she was shedding less hair. That is one person's observation, the listing makes no claim about shedding or hair loss, and it is not a reason to buy this shampoo. If shedding worries you, that is a conversation for a doctor or dermatologist rather than a shampoo aisle.

None of this is a red flag. It simply means you are buying a well-rated softening shampoo, not a treatment, and the page gives you less formula detail than a careful shopper would like.

Redken All Soft vs Biolage Hydra Source for Dry Hair

If you are shopping the salon shelf for dry hair, the obvious alternative is Biolage Hydra Source Shampoo for Dry Hair. Both are professional-brand shampoos aimed at the same buyer, and I am not going to invent a head-to-head result that neither listing supports. What I can do is set out the Redken case, so you can hold the Biolage page to the same standard.

On the Redken side you get a 4.6 average across 26,979 ratings, a clearly stated dry hair type, a softening and anti-static promise, an alcohol-free note and a 1 litre bottle. Against that, you get no full ingredient list and a suspicious salicylic acid entry. When you compare, check the rival's stated hair type, size, rating base and free-from claims, and see whether its listing is any cleaner.

The value question at the heart of any Redken All Soft Shampoo review is really a question about how you wash. If you shampoo often and your hair is dry rather than damaged, a litre of something buyers describe as softening and light is good value per wash even at salon prices. If you wash only a couple of times a week, a large bottle ties up more money for longer, and a cheaper shampoo may serve you just as well. Our guide to the best drugstore shampoo is the place to start if price decides it.

For a wider view of moisturising and hydrating formulas, our roundup of the best shampoo for dry hair lines up the field. If the Redken case already fits your hair, you can compare bottle sizes for the Redken All Soft 1 litre shampoo before you decide.

Bleached Ends, Fine Blonde Hair or Neither: Choosing Redken All Soft

Pulling it together, this Redken All Soft Shampoo review lands on a clear recommendation for one kind of hair and a clear pass for a few others. Buy it if:

• Your hair feels dry, rough or frizzy, especially at the ends
• Your hair is fine and heavy moisturising shampoos have flattened it before, since fine and blonde buyers describe softness without weigh-down
• Your bleached or box-dyed hair mainly feels brittle rather than faded
• You wash often enough to make a litre bottle pay its way

Skip it if:

• You want a colour-protecting shampoo with that stated on the label
• You want a scalp treatment of any kind
• Shine, not softness, is your main goal
• You wash infrequently and want to spend as little as possible

My view is that Redken All Soft is a sensible, honestly positioned softening shampoo that buyers with genuinely dry hair are happy with, and a 4.6 across 26,979 ratings backs that up at scale. It is not a repair treatment, the listing is untidy in one important field, and it works best alongside a conditioner. If that is what you are after, Redken All Soft Shampoo is a safe salon-shelf pick.