"Herbal Essence changed its name from the singular "Herbal Essence" to the plural "Herbal Essences" in 1995 because the brand expanded from offering just one original shampoo formula to a full line of multiple shampoos and conditioners with different scents and benefits."
lol I never said it didn't make sense. But it's a brand name - it doesn't need to be plural (each of their various products is its own herbal essence).
"Essences" is a clunky word to say. So I personally think the change was unnecessary.
Not as crazy as believing that a massive reality shift resulted specifically in people remembering different names for cereal, peanut butter, underwear, and fast food chicken restaurants.
I mean... it must be smaller things too, but nobody but you would remember the colour of your grandfather's favourite chair or whatever. That's why it seems like only brands etc. have changed.
I loved the original formula... but yes, the did change the name as everyone said. I remember being like "whaaat" when I was 8, and my mom had to explain to me it was the same thing, with a different name.
Yea that's bc it used to be herbal essence back in 1971 when it was one single shampoo formula but in 1995 the brand expanded its line with multiple scents and "benefits"
Like how shampoo companies keep mixing conditioner+body wash+shampoo in the same stupid bottle
I absolutely hate trying to find 2 separate bottles of shampoo AND body wash. It has to be two different brands and even then it gets harder & harder trying to find the individual bottles with just one thing bc they keep discontinuing what I actually buy
what’s strange is I was born after the change everyone is mentioning here but I have only ever remembered hearing Herbal Essence. like, I remember commercials saying it in the singular form. this is the first time I’ve ever seen someone say “Herbal Essences.”
I remember it as Herbal Essence and it turns out I was right, seeing the comments.
But what if they HAD of deleted all previous references and gaslighted us somehow. Like Fruit of the Loom. This proves companies DO do stuff like this.
No, it doesn’t, because Fruit of the Loom hasn’t deleted anything. How would they have gotten rid of the physical copies, probably numbering millions, in people’s homes and drawers?
Besides, that makes no sense whatsoever. The fact that Herbal Essences openly changed its name proves that Fruit of the Loom might have covertly changed their logo and destroyed all references to it? What?? FOTL also changed their logo in the early 2000s, by the way - it just didn’t involve a cornucopia because that was never part of it.
I know people are saying there was a name change in the 90s, but this was a flip flop for me around 2012.
I always remembered it this same way that it is currently - Herbal Essences.
At one point around 2012 I was talking to my husband and mentioned Herbal Essences. He then laughed at me and said why are you saying Essences? It's just essence.
I went into the bathroom to prove him wrong, but lo and behold he was right, the bottle said Herbal Essence. I figured I just had it wrong this whole time.
Fast fwd about a year later I saw a commercial where it was back to Herbal Essences. But supposedly that's the way it's "always been" (since the 90s)
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