Side by side
CHI Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo vs Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo
94% function match · 11 of the 13 functions we compared match Formula overlap 61%. CHI Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo and Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo share 4 ingredients among each other's most prominent.
Which of these fits your hair?
We check your pattern, moisture need, scalp, fragrance tolerance, weight sensitivity and more against each formula — and say which one lines up.
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When each one is the right call
What each formula is built for, from its own ingredient list.
- Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo — colour-treated hair
- Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo — colour-treated hair
Side by side
Every trait, aligned
One row per trait, read from each product’s own ingredient list and record. A dash means we have not researched that field for that product — it is not a “no”.
Palmer's
Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo
- Shampoo
- Drugstore
- Sulfate-free
- Silicone-free
- Colour-treated hairthat fades faster in a sulfate wash
- Fast-oiling scalpsthat need a real reset wash
- Dry, thirsty hairhumectants and emollients both sit up front
- Curly-method routinesno sulfates and no water-insoluble silicones
- Colour-treated hairthat fades faster in a sulfate wash
- Dry, thirsty hairhumectants and emollients both sit up front
- Curly-method routinesno sulfates and no water-insoluble silicones
- Hard waterand swimmers dealing with mineral deposit
- Scents bother youthis product carries a scent
- Dry or damaged haira strong detergent system strips as it cleans
- Dry or very humid airwhere heavy humectants work against you
- Scents bother youthis product carries a scent
- Dry or very humid airwhere heavy humectants work against you
More facts about each one
- sulfate-free
- silicone-free
- curly-method compatible
- sulfate-free
- silicone-free
- curly-method compatible
Facts as we recorded them. A dash means we have not researched that field for that product — it is not a "no".
The bottom line
The bottom line depends on your hair
Which of these two suits you is a question about your hair, not about them. The consultation answers it — and tells you what your routine needs around it.
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The detail behind the table
Where the readings above come from: the ingredient lists themselves, each brand’s claims checked against them, what owners report, and cost per ounce in context.
Shared and distinct ingredients
Shared and distinct ingredients
Computed from the ingredient lists as printed. "Shared" means both lists carry it; where it sits on each label is stated, because position is what tells you how much.
What both formulas carry
What only one of them carries
Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo
Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo
Full ingredient list — Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo (36)
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1
Water
- solvent
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2
Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
- olefin sulfonate cleanser
- cleanser
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3
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
- amphoteric cleanser
- secondary cleanser
- cleanser
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4
Glycerin
- humectant
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5
Glycol Distearate
- opacifier
- emollient
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6
Decyl Glucoside
- nonionic cleanser
- cleanser
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7
Acrylates Copolymer
- film former
- polymer
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8
Hydroxypropylgluconamide
- humectant
- conditioning agent
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9
Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate
- humectant
- conditioning agent
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10
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice
- humectant
- botanical extract
- gum
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11
Cannabis Sativa Seed Oil
- oil
- emollient
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12
Tuber Magnatum Extract
- botanical extract
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13
Pearl Extract
- botanical extract
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14
Cocodimonium Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Keratin
- conditioning agent
- film former
- protein
- hydrolysed protein
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15
Keratin Amino Acids
- protein
- amino acid
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16
Hydrolyzed Silk
- film former
- protein
- hydrolysed protein
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17
Panthenol
- humectant
- conditioning agent
- vitamin
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18
Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate
- mild anionic cleanser
- cleanser
- Below about this point, order stops being meaningful — these are typically used at 1% or less.
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19
Caprylyl Glycol
- preservative
- humectant
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20
Sorbeth-230 Tetraoleate
- light ester
- emollient
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21
Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride
- conditioning agent
- polymer
- gum
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22
Disodium EDTA
- hard-water chelator
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23
Citric Acid
- pH adjuster
- hard-water chelator
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24
Polyquaternium-7
- conditioning agent
- film former
- polymer
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25
Hexylene Glycol
- solvent
- humectant
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26
Sorbitan Laurate
- light ester
- emollient
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27
Benzoic Acid
- preservative
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28
Potassium Sorbate
- preservative
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29
Phenoxyethanol
- preservative
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30
Sodium Benzoate
- preservative
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31
Benzyl Alcohol
- preservative
- solvent
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32
Ethylhexylglycerin
- preservative
- emollient
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33
Fragrance
- fragrance
- declared fragrance
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34
Benzyl Benzoate
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
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35
Limonene
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
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36
Linalool
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
Full ingredient list — Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo (26)
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1
Water
- solvent
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2
Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Extract
- botanical extract
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3
Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate
- olefin sulfonate cleanser
- cleanser
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4
Glycerin
- humectant
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5
Glycol Distearate
- opacifier
- emollient
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6
Cocamide Dipa
- secondary cleanser
- thickener
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7
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
- amphoteric cleanser
- secondary cleanser
- cleanser
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8
Sodium Chloride
- salt
- thickener
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9
PEG-120 Methyl Glucose Dioleate
- thickener
- emulsifier
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10
PEG-150 Distearate
- thickener
- emulsifier
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11
Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter
- butter
- emollient
- sealant
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12
Biotin
- vitamin
- Below about this point, order stops being meaningful — these are typically used at 1% or less.
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13
Tocopheryl Acetate
- antioxidant
- vitamin
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14
Hydrolyzed Quinoa
- film former
- protein
- hydrolysed protein
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15
Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil
- oil
- emollient
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16
Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate
- preservative
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17
Phenoxyethanol
- preservative
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18
Disteareth-75 IPDI
- thickener
- polymer
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19
Polyquaternium-10
- conditioning agent
- film former
- polymer
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20
Sodium Sulfate
- salt
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21
Ethylhexylglycerin
- preservative
- emollient
- 22 Phosphoric Acid
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23
Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate
- hard-water chelator
- 24 Sodium Glycolate
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25
Fragrance
- fragrance
- declared fragrance
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26
Benzyl Benzoate
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
Claims check
What each brand says, against what each formula shows
Claims are quoted from each brand. We only mark one supported, partly supported, or conflicting when that product’s ingredient list actually speaks to it.
Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo
Helps to reduce breakage
Partly supportedSupports the surface, not a treatment.Strengthens hair bonds
Partly supportedSupports the surface, not a treatment.Makes hair shinier, healthier, and easier to manage with each use
SupportedReflects light for visible shine.
Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo
Helps block fragility, brittleness, breakage and split ends
Partly supportedSupports the surface, not a treatment.Silicone-free, non-stripping, color-safe shampoo
SupportedNothing that needs a strong wash.
What owners say
What people report
Recurring themes our researchers wrote in their own words from sourced reviews. We do not store or scrape star ratings, and we never balance one product’s themes against another’s by inventing them.
Both praised for the scent.
Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo
Scent and texture praised; a small amount is reported to go a long way
general reviewer base (small sample, only 2 reviews found)Pleasant fragrance is a recurring positive in the two exact-SKU reviews
two-review native sample; theme separated from feel/textureReviewers report visible improvement in hair feel and appearance
general reviewer base (small sample, only 2 reviews found)Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo
Helps reduce frizz and supports manageable hair
Exact iHerb US 13.5 fl oz written reviewsCocoa scent and smooth, shiny hair after washing
Exact iHerb US 13.5 fl oz written reviewsMoisturizing, gentle cleansing and soft hair feel
Exact iHerb US 13.5 fl oz written reviewsPrice check
Cost per ounce, in context
Cost per ounce against every product of this type we have priced, each at the size it is most often sold in. Value labels are computed from that percentile and from how many products that do the same job cost less; they are comparisons, not judgements about a brand.
$0.48/oz vs $1.98/oz — CHI Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo costs about 4.1× more per ounce than Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo.
Every mark sits on one distribution because these are compared against the same set: 817 shampoos with a computable unit price.
Computed from cost per ounce against every product of this type we have priced, and from how many products that do the same job cost less. It is a comparison, not a judgement about the brand.
Compare with something else
Close formulas to each of these, as their own comparison pages.
Royal Treatment Bond and Repair Shampoo · Cocoa Butter Formula with Vitamin E Length Retention Shampoo · All shampoos in the library
How this page was made
- This page is assembled from the same researched records the individual product pages render: identity, each ingredient list as printed, each brand's own claims, dated price observations, and review themes written in our researchers' own words. Nothing on it is written per comparison.
- We do not rank these against each other. Which of them suits you depends on your hair, and that is what the consultation works out.
- The formula similarity percentage is a stored, precomputed number: position-weighted overlap of the two ingredient lists blended with agreement on the attributes we derive. It measures how alike two formulas are, not how well either works.
- The value band is a fixed label over two stored numbers: this product’s cost per ounce as a percentile of every product of this type we have priced, each at the size it is most often sold in, and how many products we score as doing the same job cost at least a quarter less per ounce.
- The "Is this right for you?" panel reads only your own consultation answers, and it applies exactly the filters our recommendation engine applies. It is computed when you load the page and is never stored on it.
- 10 sources were consulted across the products on this page.
- Ingredient order tells you relative amount only above roughly 1%. Prices are observations on the dates shown and change without notice. We do not sell these products and take no placement fees.
- This is cosmetic information, not medical advice, and nothing here diagnoses or treats a health condition.
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