Ingredients: aloe vera leaf juice, rice milk, water, almond oil, sunflower oil, ashwagandha powder, ginger herb, extra virgin olive oil, nettle, herbal oil complex, jojoba oil, neem oil, glyceryl stearate (and) cetearyl alcohol (and) sodium stearoyl lactylate, phenoxyethanol and caprylyl glycol, and love. Essential oil blend of lemon, lavender, bitter almond and ginger.
Price: 80z $9.00, 16 0z $15.00
Review:
First I have to comment on the scent. I’ve never smelled anything like this in a hair product, but I actually like it. It has a hint of ginger in it and smells really refreshing to me. However, the scent is strong out of the jar, though it fades over time once on your hair. I liked it, but some people like CO did not.
I’ve used this on both dry and wet twists and found the results to be good for both. It leaves my hair soft and moisturized, though not as moisturizing as the Shea Amla butter. The consistency is rich and creamy just like the Shea Amla.
I also used this recently to remoisturize a twist out. I retwisted my hair after applying it, tied it up for the night, and when I woke up my hair had moisture and renewed definition.
It has great ingredients, but what else do we expect from Afroveda?
I just wasn’t’ all that impressed with this conditioner. Here is the product claim:
Now with silk amino acid for a smoother, silkier feel. AfroVeda’s Neem Triphala Silk Protein conditioner works wonders for your hair and scalp and contains WheatPRO PLUS to strengthen and improve hair’s moisture content; Panthenol which penetrates the cortex, improving shine, strength, and preventing split ends; and Allantoin which prevents further damage to the cuticle. This conditioner is a natural hair and scalp treatment that helps stop hair dryness, relieves itchy scalp and flaking, and strengthens and repairs hair.
I am loving exploring the Afroveda line, but they can’t all be winners. It’s not a deep moisturizing or protein treatment, it’s more suited for co-washing in my opinion. It’s so-so moisturizing and good if you need a bit of protein. If you need more protein, I suggest you turn elsewhere.
The smell is wonderful, especially if you enjoy the scent of tangerines. However, I just feel I can get the same (or better) results with my beloved Suave. Though Suave does lack these great ingredients. But it’s got it beat in the price and availability department. A lot of ladies seem to enjoy it, so it’s worth a try at least.
Again, just like Shea Amla, I was not in love with the smell of this product. But I had fantastic results.This butter reminds me a lot of playdoh, but much smoother. As I said above, it’s like a dry paste of some sort.
I took a picture to show the consistency. Very stiff and thick.
I tried it first on twists done on wet hair. I didn’t use a leave in under it simply because I wanted to see how moisturizing it was on its own. With all of the waxes it had, I wasn’t sure if the moisture would be up to par. As my hair was drying, I thought that the moisture would be lacking because I could not feel any of the product when I touched my twists. When they dried, I still could not feel it, but my twists felt moisturized with a bit of added hold. Some spots felt a little stiff, but I’m used to that with shea butter based products and the feeling went away around the next day. I also think that bit of stiffness lets your twists lay nicely.I did have to moisturize the next day, so the moisture was not long lasting, but a little spritz cleared that up and my twists still looked nice.
Anyway, next time I used this on my most recent set of twists, done on dry hair (see them here). Great hold, I did not even have to dip too many of my ends in water, I just concentrated this product on the ends and they curled up like I needed them to. Using the Shea Amla beneath it, I haven’t had to spritz at all to moisturize in several days since doing these twists. (They were a litle moist from shower steam a few times, so that may have helped too).
I did a few fingercoils with this and didn’t really like it. I’ll try it again at some point to see if I can get it to work.
I wouldn’t use this at all on loose hair or to moisturize twists (I think it would be too much), but for setting twists, I give this a full thumbs up. I’ll update this post when I do the twist out. If that goes well, I’ll be calling this a staple.
If you’re a regular reader, then you know that I love whipped, creamy products. The Shea Amla butter fits the bill. At first glance, I thought that it would be hard, like pure shea butter. When I saw that it was whipped, I thought perhaps it had the consistency of KBB hair cream, but it actually seems to be a bit fluffier. (It is also considerably cheaper than the hair cream) It’s still pretty heavy moisture, though it did not leave my hair greasy the next day.This may be somewhat heavy for finer hair types.
Moisture, moisture, moisture is all I have to say. The scent…eh, I could do without it to be honest, but it’s not strong and I couldn’t even smell it after 2 days. Despite the smell: Great price, great product!
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