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Darcy’s Botanicals

Darcy’s Botanicals Avocado and Honey Twisting Cream

by kcurly on November 18, 2010

in Darcy's Botanicals,Product Reviews

Product Name: Avocado and Honey Twisting Cream

Company Name: Darcy’s Botanicals

Price: $12.00 80z

Ingredients: Organic Aloe Vera Juice, Distilled Water, Avocado Oil, Organic Sustainable Palm Oil, Vegetable Emulsifying Wax, Vegetable Glycerin, Panthenol, Botanical Oil Complex, Wildflower Honey, phenoxyethanol and caprylyl glycol, Ylang Ylang, and Lemon Essential Oils

Consistency: creamy, light

Purchase from: Darcy’s Botanicals, CurlMart

Review:

I’ll start with the scent. I know the product description says it’s supposed to smell like Ylang Ylang and Lemon, but I never really smelled anything. Maybe it was my particular jar. What I could smell was very light and disappeared once it was in my hair.

I’m just now getting into the Darcy’s Botanicals line and have yet to be disappointed.The ingredients are, of course, fantastic.

I did my last set of twists with these, on wet hair, with very little leave in. I wanted to test how moisturizing it was. How did it hold up? Very well actually! I spritzed my hair a bit with some Frank Juice and then used the cream on top of it.

My hair felt moisturized without feeling greasy. My twists had a bit of a sheen and were nice and soft. I had to use my spritz about three days later as my hair started feeling a little dry. I was also surprised that I only used about half the jar. My hair is very thick and getting longer, so when I looked at that little jar I just knew I was going to go through the whole thing.

As for adding extra hold, I didn’t really experience that. I mean, the hold is decent but I don’t really rely on products for hold much anymore anyway.

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Coconut Lemongrass Transitioning Creme

by kcurly on September 1, 2010

in Darcy's Botanicals,Product Reviews

Company Name: Darcy Botanicals

Product Name: Coconut Lemongrass Transitioning Creme

Price: $12 8 0z

Ingredients: Distilled Water, Organic Aloe Vera, Organic Virgin Coconut Oil, a mild detangling conditioner, Vitamin E, Panthenol, Yarrow, Sage, Horsetail, Nettle, & Lavender Extracts, Fractionated Coconut Oil, a paraben-free preservative, and lemongrass essential oil.

Consistency: Creamy, not oily

Purchase from: Darcy’s Botanicals

Review:

Obviously, I’m not transitioning, but I love a good moisturizing leave in (which this seems to be) so I jumped right in. I was actually sent this product to try out and never really gave much thought to Darcy’s Botanicals. I mean, I’ve heard of them, but not enough that my PJ brain was saying “Gotta have it, gotta have it”

Well, after trying this product, I realize my error. Can you say awesome??

First, to get the full transitioning experience, I used this one my dry fro pictured here. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t routinely let my hair dry without some kind of product on it. So I really thought this would be a good opportunity to test out this creme. In other words, I wanted to make things as difficult for it as possible.

I used this creme to do twists on my dried afro. (This used to be the way I did dry twists back in the day with a few inches of hair…now? It usually ain’t happenin’!) Although this is not the way I will be choosing to do my twists on dry hair from now on, this product definitily made things easier. It softened my hair, aided in detangling, and hydrated my hair.

Do you hear me when I say “hydrated”? Because I’m not joking about that. I was dipping my fingertips in the product to apply it to my hair and after a few hours of twisting, my fingertips started to pucker. Hydration, ladies!!

I’ve also used this on wet hair  (under another product) when doing a twist out. I was also impressed with it then, but not near as impressed as I was with it on dry hair.

Now, as for my twists, I probably wouldn’t use it alone again on dry twists. It does not have as much hold and I’ve noticed a bit more frizziness than I normally do. Which is fine…3 days later, my hair still feels amazing and moisturized.

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