Color Wow Extra Strength Dream Coat
by Color Wow · other
Editor's Take
For stubborn frizz in muggy weather, this earns its shelf space, but the heat-activated polymer coat comes with a decidedly weak environmental profile.
Four-pillar formula scores
- Performance: 8.5 / 10
- Innovative Ingredients: 8.0 / 10
- Clean Standards: 5.1 / 10
- Formula Sustainability: 4.5 / 10
The Verdict
With heat and thorough saturation, Polysilicone-29 and the VP copolymer form a durable, water-repellent film that keeps humidity from roughing up the finish. It is unusually capable at long-wearing frizz control without relying on a heavy oil base. The trade-off is middling clean alignment and poor biodegradability from persistent silicones, synthetic polymers, and ethoxylated ingredients, not an outsized consumer safety concern. Worth it when serious humidity resistance matters more than a greener ingredient profile.
Is Color Wow Extra Strength Dream Coat clean?
DARE scores Color Wow Extra Strength Dream Coat by Color Wow 5.1 / 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 Color Wow Extra Strength Dream Coat?
The formula leads with Water/Aqua, Dipropylene Glycol, Polysilicone-29, VP/Methacrylamide /Vinyl Imidazole Copolymer, Silicone Quaternium-18, Glycerin. 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 Color Wow Extra Strength Dream Coat?
Under the Formulation Architecture Model™, Color Wow Extra Strength Dream Coat by Color Wow scores Performance 8.5 / 10, Clean Standards 5.1 / 10, Innovative Ingredients 8.0 / 10, and Formula Sustainability 4.5 / 10. Each pillar is scored from the finished formula rather than from isolated ingredient flags.
Full INCI list
Water/Aqua, Dipropylene Glycol, Polysilicone-29, VP/Methacrylamide /Vinyl Imidazole Copolymer, Silicone Quaternium-18, Glycerin, Trideceth-6, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Polyimide-1, Potassium Sorbate, Phenoxyethanol, Trideceth-12, Sodium Benzoate, Chlorphenesin, Potassium Benzoate, Phenylpropanol, Disodium EDTA, Propanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Tocopherol, Citric Acid. Formula 718-0
Last updated September 19, 2026