Side by side
Color Wow Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment vs Kerastase Resistance Ciment Thermique
87% function match · 7 of the 10 functions we compared match Formula overlap 10%. Color Wow Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment and Kerastase Resistance Ciment Thermique share 3 ingredients among each other's most prominent.
These sit in different steps of a routine — Color Wow Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment is a leave-in and Kerastase Resistance Ciment Thermique is a heat protectant. Comparing their formulas is fair; treating one as a replacement for the other is not.
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.
- Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment — heat styling
- Resistance Ciment Thermique — dry, thirsty 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”.
Color Wow
Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment
- Leave-in
- Prestige
- Sulfate-free
- Moisture-rich
Compared at different sizes — 5.1 oz against 1.6 oz. Per-ounce prices favour the larger bottle.
- Heat stylingthe brand positions this as a heat protectant
- Maximum slipfor hair that tangles the moment it is wet
- Dry, thirsty hairhumectants and emollients both sit up front
- Curl definitionfilm formers hold a clump together
- Dry, thirsty hairhumectants and emollients both sit up front
- Fine hairthat flattens under most products
- Porous, damaged hairceramides are in the list
- Very dry hairno fast-drying alcohol in the list
- Scents bother youthis product carries a scent
- Curly-method routinesthese silicones need a detergent to remove
- Dry or very humid airwhere heavy humectants work against you
- Scents bother youthis product carries a scent
- Curly-method routinesthese silicones need a detergent to remove
- Dry or very humid airwhere heavy humectants work against you
More facts about each one
- sulfate-free
- sulfate-free
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
Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment
Full ingredient list — Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment (25)
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1
Water
- solvent
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2
Glycerin
- humectant
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3
Polyquaternium-4
- conditioning agent
- film former
- polymer
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4
Panthenol
- humectant
- conditioning agent
- vitamin
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5
Polyquaternium-11
- film former
- polymer
- conditioning agent
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6
PEG-12 Dimethicone
- emollient
- silicone
- water-soluble silicone
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7
Silicone Quaternium-18
- silicone
- conditioning agent
- film former
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8
PPG-26-Buteth-26
- emulsifier
- solubilizer
- Below about this point, order stops being meaningful — these are typically used at 1% or less.
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9
Phenoxyethanol
- preservative
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10
PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
- solubilizer
- emulsifier
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11
Trideceth-6
- emulsifier
- solubilizer
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12
Corn Starch Modified
- starch
- absorbent
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13
Fragrance
- fragrance
- declared fragrance
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14
Hydrolyzed Quinoa
- film former
- protein
- hydrolysed protein
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15
Disodium EDTA
- hard-water chelator
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16
Trideceth-12
- emulsifier
- solubilizer
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17
Hydrolyzed Keratin
- film former
- protein
- hydrolysed protein
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18
Caprylyl Glycol
- preservative
- humectant
- 19 Beta-Glucan (Oat)
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20
1,2-Hexanediol
- preservative
- humectant
- solvent
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21
Benzyl Alcohol
- preservative
- solvent
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22
Sodium Benzoate
- preservative
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23
Potassium Sorbate
- preservative
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24
Citric Acid
- pH adjuster
- hard-water chelator
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25
Hexyl Cinnamal
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
Full ingredient list — Resistance Ciment Thermique (31)
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1
Water
- solvent
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2
Cyclopentasiloxane
- silicone
- emollient
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3
Propylene Glycol
- humectant
- solvent
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4
Dimethiconol
- silicone
- emollient
- Below about this point, order stops being meaningful — these are typically used at 1% or less.
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5
Triethanolamine
- pH adjuster
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6
Phenoxyethanol
- preservative
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7
PEG/PPG-17/18 Dimethicone
- emulsifier
- silicone
- water-soluble silicone
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8
Carbomer
- thickener
- polymer
- film former
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9
Behentrimonium Chloride
- conditioning agent
- cleanser
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10
Polyquaternium-4
- conditioning agent
- film former
- polymer
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11
Potato Starch Modified
- starch
- absorbent
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12
Hydroxypropyl Guar
- gum
- thickener
- polymer
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13
Methylparaben
- paraben
- preservative
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14
Limonene
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
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15
Amodimethicone
- silicone
- conditioning agent
- film former
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16
Cetyl Alcohol
- fatty alcohol
- emollient
- thickener
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17
Quaternium-87
- conditioning agent
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18
Behentrimonium Methosulfate
- conditioning agent
- emulsifier
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19
Quaternium-33
- conditioning agent
- protein
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20
Trideceth-6
- emulsifier
- solubilizer
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21
2-Oleamido-1,3-Octadecanediol
- ceramide
- emollient
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22
Geraniol
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
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23
Linalool
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
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24
Glycerin
- humectant
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25
Citronellol
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
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26
Citral
- fragrance
- named fragrance allergen
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27
Cetrimonium Chloride
- conditioning agent
- cleanser
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28
Trehalose
- humectant
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29
Tamarindus Indica Seed Polysaccharide
- botanical extract
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30
Myrothamnus Flabellifolia Leaf Extract
- botanical extract
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31
Fragrance
- fragrance
- declared fragrance
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.
Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment
Makes a major difference with just one blow dry
Stated by brandCan’t be confirmed from label.Instantly adds mass by bonding a weightless carb-based complex to hair's surface
Partly supportedSupports the surface, not a treatment.Transforms fine, thin hair into thicker, fuller hair
Stated by brandNot something a label can show.
Resistance Ciment Thermique
Strengthening Blow-Dry Cream for Damaged Hair
Partly supportedSupports the surface, not a treatment.instantly reconstructs, reinforces and resurfaces the hair fiber
Stated by brandCan’t be confirmed from label.recreates the hair's natural external protective layer
Stated by brandCan’t be confirmed from label.makes the blow-dry two times faster
Stated by brandCan’t be confirmed from label.
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.
Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment
Style holds for multiple days without touch-ups
Improves texture and makes hair easier to style
Adds volume and body, especially for fine/straight hair
Resistance Ciment Thermique
Reviewers describe hair that is soft, shiny and smooth after a blow-dry and call it their go-to heat protectant, with fine-but-thick hair saying a quarter-sized amount is enough.
frequent heat stylers, fine and medium hairA minority say it did nothing for smoothing or protection on very fine hair, and a few report hair feeling stiff or 'like straw', several of them questioning whether the unit was genuine.
very fine hair, curly hair; the critical-review tailSalon-quality users rate it good rather than miraculous: it works, but some who were influenced to buy it found it no better than what they already used.
reviewers who use only salon productsThe fruity scent is loved by some as tropical passion fruit and pear and disliked by others as childish or grapefruit-like, and a repeat buyer says the fragrance was recently changed.
general reviewers, one long-term repeat buyerPrice 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.
$5.69/oz vs $10.20/oz — Kerastase Resistance Ciment Thermique costs about 1.8× more per ounce than Color Wow Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment.
Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment
Against 564 leave-ins with a computable unit price.
Resistance Ciment Thermique
Against 224 heat protectants 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.
Dream Cocktail Carb-Infused Leave-in Treatment · Resistance Ciment Thermique · All leave-ins 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.
- This particular combination is not listed in our sitemap: we only submit pairs of comparable products that our similarity data says people would actually weigh against each other.
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