Bumble and bumble Bond-Building Repair Hair Styling Cream
by Bumble and bumble · hair_care
Editor's Take
Repair creams often stop at silicone shine, but FiberHance™ BM and the castor-oil copolymer give this one structural credibility at a steep clean-beauty cost.
Four-pillar formula scores
- Performance: 8.5 / 10
- Innovative Ingredients: 8.2 / 10
- Clean Standards: 2.3 / 10
- Formula Sustainability: 3.9 / 10
The Verdict
This treatment goes beyond surface smoothing, using FiberHance™ BM for internal bond support and a castor-oil copolymer to seal the cuticle. Dimethicone and multiple deposition polymers add reliable slip, polish, heat protection, and staying power. The catch is low clean alignment and a mixed sustainability profile driven largely by persistent silicones and synthetic polymers. Worth it for damaged hair needing repair support and polished styling in one step.
Is Bumble and bumble Bond-Building Repair Hair Styling Cream clean?
DARE scores Bumble and bumble Bond-Building Repair Hair Styling Cream by Bumble and bumble 2.3 / 10 on Clean Standards, the human-health pillar of the Formulation Architecture Model™. That reading comes from the published INCI list read as a system — preservative, fragrance and surfactant choices in context — not from flagging single ingredients in isolation.
What are the key ingredients in Bumble and bumble Bond-Building Repair Hair Styling Cream?
The formula leads with Water/Aqua/Eau, Propanediol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Aleurites Moluccana Seed Oil, Hydrogenated Castor Oil/ Sebacic Acid Copolymer. DARE reads the full INCI list below in order, so position and pairing shape how each ingredient contributes under Performance and Innovative Ingredients.
How does DARE score Bumble and bumble Bond-Building Repair Hair Styling Cream?
Under the Formulation Architecture Model™, Bumble and bumble Bond-Building Repair Hair Styling Cream by Bumble and bumble scores Performance 8.5 / 10, Clean Standards 2.3 / 10, Innovative Ingredients 8.2 / 10, and Formula Sustainability 3.9 / 10. Each pillar is scored from the finished formula rather than from isolated ingredient flags.
Full INCI list
Water/Aqua/Eau, Propanediol, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dimethicone, Aleurites Moluccana (Kukui) Seed Oil, Hydrogenated Castor Oil/ Sebacic Acid Copolymer, Honey/Mel/Miel, Yeast Extract/Faex/Extrait De Levure, Octyldodecyl Citrate Crosspolymer, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Bis-Ethyl(Isostearylimidazoline) Isostearamide, Behentrimonium Chloride, Hydroxypropylammonium Gluconate, Hydroxypropylgluconamide, Caprylyl Glycol, Methyl Trimethicone, Ethyl Macadamiate, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein PG-Propyl Silanetriol, Lactic Acid, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Tocopherol, PEG-8 Dimethicone, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Cetyl Hydroxyethylcellulose, Polyquaternium-4, Acrylates/Dimethicone Copolymer, Dimethicone PEG-8 Polyacrylate, Panthenol, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Butylene Glycol, Dipropylene Glycol, Fragrance (Parfum), Linalool, Benzyl Salicylate, Benzyl Alcohol, Limonene, Benzyl Benzoate, BHT, Sodium Hydroxide, Tartaric Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Mica, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Orange 4 (CI 15510), Yellow 5 (CI 19140), Caramel