Jane Carter Solutions

Company Name: Jane Carter Solutions

Product Name: Scalp Nourishing Serum Scalp Fortifier

Price: $14.00

Consistency: Oily

Ingredients: Pure Essential Oils vitamins A,D, & E botanicals

Scent: Kind of lemony, fresh

Purchase from: Jane Carter Solutions, CurlMart, Pebble.com

Review:

So ya’ll already know the chlorine is giving me a major case of the itchy scalp, so products like these have been essential to me. This really, really soothed my scalp. It’s got a nice fresh scent, though not overpowering. Now if lemon is not your thing, you might not like this. My friend who tried this said she felt like she might as well spray some Lemon Pledge on her head LOL!

I think it’s kind of common these day to have scalp oil products  “tingle” when you apply them. I was actually kind of happy that it did not have a tingly feeling to it because sometimes I just don’t feel like all that. My scalp felt cool, but did not tingle. It’s good to switch it up.

Anyway, application is made easy with the container it comes in and it helped my perpetually dry scalp, especially after the second application.

Will I buy this again? Hmm, again it’s hard for me to say. Just like the HPO scalp serum, I can always easily make my own. It’s great to have other  options though.

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Company Name: The Jane Carter Solution

Product Name: Revitalizing Leave-In Conditioner

Price: 8 fl oz $9.00

Ingredients: Deoionized Water, Extracts of Aloe Vera, Comfrey, Watercress, Myrrh, Panthenol, Chamomile, Comfrey, Horsetail, Nettle, Rosemary, Hops, Henna, Certified Organic Essential Oil: Lemon, Vanilla Extract, Polyquarternium11, Soyamid DEA, PPG30, Cetyl Ether, Oleth-3 Phosphate and Phenoxyethanol

Consistency/color: Cloudy liquid

Scent: Floral like

Review:

Ya’ll know how I am about liquids and so this receives a big thumbs down for me for wash n go’s. It’s just does nothing and the spray bottle that it comes in makes it hard and tiresome to apply it. It provided no curl definition at all and so-so moisture for my coarse hair.

Now…I will say that this does offer good moisture for twists and twist outs as a refresher. The scent seems a little heavy at first but evens out after a bit.

Finer hair types may like this. I used it on my son’s unruly type 2-something hair and it came out very moisturized, though not weighed down, and even gave him a little hold to his extremely loose curls.  The ingredients are pretty high quality as well.

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Company Name: The Jane Carter Solution

Product Name: Condition and Sculpt

Price: 8 oz $8.00

Consistency: Liquid

Ingredients: Deionized water, Anthemis Noblis Flower (Camomile), Symphytum Officinal Leaf (Comfrey), Equisetum Arvense (Horsetail), Urtica Dioica (Nettle), Rosemarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf, Humulus Lupulus (Hops), Lawsonia Inermis (Henna), Certified Organic Essential Oils: Lemon, Vanilla extract, Panthenol, Polyquaternum 11, Phenoxyethanol.

Purchased from: Curlmart, The Jane Carter Solution

Review:

After my pleasing encounter with the Nourish and Shine from this line, I was excited to try this styler. It’s a liquid, which usually spells bad news for me, but I had faith that it might be ok anyway.

Unfortunately, I was wrong

Here’s the description from the Jane Carter site:

Condition & Sculpt is a liquid sculpting lotion that is ideal for taming unruly curls. Perfect for wash and wear curly hair and curly weaves. Use a little for light hold and a lot for maximum hold. Condition & Sculpt smoothes the hair’s cuticle, providing phenomenal shine. It is a terrific product for all hair textures, and is great for those “ponytail” days!

I tried this twice. Once I just used it by itself. It took a lot of the product to get it all through my hair and I kind of had to just pour it on. Then I just fingercombed it through as I usually do with my stylers. I did not use a leave in under it. I ended up with my usual ‘fro and very little curl definition (though it felt moisturized) . The second time I used this under the Nourish and Shine and pretty much ended up with the same results (except it was exceptionally moisturized).

I think this may be more suited for someone with a very loose hair texture, or at least looser than mine. The smell is pleasant and the price is not that bad, but it just didn’t do it for me for a wash n go. I may try this in the future on twists or braid outs and I will update this post if I do.

Will I buy this in the future? Nope.

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Product Name: Nourish and Shine

Company Name: Jane Carter Solutions

Price: $22.00 4 oz

Ingredients:Natural Butters, Essential Oils, Vitamins

Purchased from: Curlmart, Jane Carter Solutions

Review:

If you like butters, you will probably like this. I found this to leave both my hair and skin wonderfully soft and supple. It feels really heavy at first, but then just sinks in. My skin feels kind of greasy  when I use it but that goes away soon after, leaving soft skin.

The consistency is almost like shea butter. I have to warm it up in my hands before using it because it’s so thick.

I prefer to use this on dry hair as opposed to wet hair. I tried to use it on wash n go, both under and over a styler and it just did not agree with me. For one thing, it left a residue that lasted about an hour. Not cool when you’re rushing to work that morning.  It did leave my hair soft though, especially over KCCC, reducing crunchiness.

I loved this most of all with twists!

The smell can be a bit overpowering. It’s nice in moderation, but take a big whiff and you might just get knocked off your feet.  It dissipates once it’s on the hair though. And the price might be a drawback for some, though I will say a little goes a long way.

Will I buy this again? Not sure. I’ve got quite a bit to last me though until I decide.

Edit (October 09): This has become one my favorite butters!

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