Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo: a Guru Score of 77%

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Dr. Aanchal MD

3.49M subs

✓Yay

"For shampoos, you can use the Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo."

Tea with MD

113k subs

✓Yay

"My first pick in the splurge category is the Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo. This one hydrates beautifully and softens without weighing your hair down. Their key ingredient is this long molecule bis aminopropyl diglycol daliate which is their patented bond repair technology. It also has panthenol which I've been loving recently for skin barrier repair. So it helps with repair of your scalp skin barrier. Glycerin which is a great humectant helping your scalp hold on to moisture. I also really just truly love the way it smells and it makes my hair feel less damaged after I use this Olaplex shampoo."

All 2 takes from Tea with MD

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"My first pick in the splurge category is the Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo. This one hydrates beautifully and softens without weighing your hair down. Their key ingredient is this long molecule bis aminopropyl diglycol daliate which is their patented bond repair technology. It also has panthenol which I've been loving recently for skin barrier repair. So it helps with repair of your scalp skin barrier. Glycerin which is a great humectant helping your scalp hold on to moisture. I also really just truly love the way it smells and it makes my hair feel less damaged after I use this Olaplex shampoo."

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"I really like their bond repairing shampoo, their number four shampoo, and then their conditioner which is their number five. What makes their products so special is their patented bond repairing technology. So this goes back to a little bit of chemistry thinking about how your hair is held together. Your hair is made up of protein called keratin, and just to really simplify it, the keratin is all arranged in these long chains and cables and these long cables are all twisted together and held together by disulfide bonds. We have millions of these bonds all over our hair. It's what gives our hair its shape, its structure, its integrity. And when our hair is damaged by combing it, pulling it, like mechanical stress, by UV damage, by heat damage, like if you're using a curling iron or a hair straightener on high without any type of heat protectant, what happens to your hair is the disulfide bond gets broken."

Alexandra Anele

1.44M subs

✓Yay

"This is the bond repair shampoo. They have the bond repair line. [...] I've used all of the Olaplex Bond Repair products. It's pretty much what my hair stylist uses on my hair every single time she washes and conditions. I think it's a really good basic go-to shampoo, pretty much my go-to shampoo if I'm not using my K18 one. [...] Bond repair is really great in general if you're dying your hair. I don't have a ton to say about it because [...] a shampoo isn't one of those things where you use it and you're like oh my god, but I trust them mostly because Sarah, who does my hair color, always uses Olaplex, and bonds are important for your hair."

All 3 takes from Alexandra Anele

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"I feel like I shouldn't like it that much but I do, I like it a lot. I can't explain it. I mix this Bond Maintenance Shampoo together with their purple shampoo when I wash my hair. I don't know if that's how you're supposed to do it but that's what I do. I mix kind of equal parts, maybe a little bit less purple shampoo than this to get like a slightly more vanilla shade for my hair. I love this, I think it's great."

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"Since I've been growing my hair out I've started to realize how incredibly spoiled I was because every time we bleached my hair I had cut the majority of it off. Now that it's growing I'm realizing like oh I have to actually use heat protection. So the Olaplex Bond Maintenance, I think I've probably talked about this, the bond maintenance has become like an absolute staple in my collection."

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"This is the bond repair shampoo. They have the bond repair line. [...] I've used all of the Olaplex Bond Repair products. It's pretty much what my hair stylist uses on my hair every single time she washes and conditions. I think it's a really good basic go-to shampoo, pretty much my go-to shampoo if I'm not using my K18 one. [...] Bond repair is really great in general if you're dying your hair. I don't have a ton to say about it because [...] a shampoo isn't one of those things where you use it and you're like oh my god, but I trust them mostly because Sarah, who does my hair color, always uses Olaplex, and bonds are important for your hair."

James Welsh

1.58M subs

✓Yay

"In 2018 they launched their number three hair perfector number four bond maintenance shampoo and number five bond maintenance conditioner this finally allowed fans of the brand to get the bond building effects of Olaplex without having to go to a salon. [...] When I worked in a salon we were an Olaplex salon we actually would not bleach hair or touch damaged hair without using Olaplex it became a must-have because of how effective these in salon versions were people loved it they were buying it out of the salon."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

✓Mixed

"I tried the Olaplex shampoo and while I liked it, I really didn't find that my hair was any different in comparison to using that Pantene shampoo."

HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

✓Yay

"I never take anything out of it I keep everything in it that I'm going to take on my trip there's my Olaplex shampoo."

All 2 takes from HotandFlashy

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"I never take anything out of it I keep everything in it that I'm going to take on my trip there's my Olaplex shampoo."

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"I did buy a little sampler pack that had a little mini shampoo and a mini conditioner and I've really been liking them, but I gotta say when I use them three or four washes in a row it starts to weigh my hair down and make it really flat. I need to shampoo with something else in the meantime."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Frequently asked.

What is Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo?

A sulfate-free shampoo formulated with Olaplex's patented bond repair technology, designed to cleanse, hydrate, and help restore damaged hair.

Is Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo worth it?

Mostly yes. 5 of the 6 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 77%.

What is Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo's Guru Score?

Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo holds a Guru Score of 77%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 6 expert reviewers we have collected.