@MemphisBarbie โThe bestโ depends on your hair and scalp. ๐ Example: for many folks, honey is a great humectant ingredient in hair products. But for me, itโs terrible: in the shower, it makes my hair feel buttery soft but also super tangled; once Iโm out of water, it lets too much hydration escape my hair, leaving it very dry.
I cycle through various shampoos and donโt have a favorite. For me, itโs less about which shampoos work best on my kinky coily hair and more about what shampoos wonโt irritate my scalp. Iโm currently working through a bottle of OGX Coconut Miracle Oil shampoo and itโs surprisingly not too drying for me, considering its ingredients. I still have half a bottle of Bumble & Bumble BB Curl shampoo to use up; I donโt hate it but I wonโt repurchase it. I like to use Olaplex No. 4 shampoo (along with at least one other Olaplex product) after Iโve used products or styling techniques that stretched/loosened my curls. Soon Iโll bring a new-to-me Briogeo shampoo into rotation and see how it fares. Iโd love to find a dry shampoo that works well for me; thatโd be great on workout days.
I generally donโt like โcowashesโ or โcleansing conditionersโ in place of shampoos. They rarely clean my scalp at all, let alone my hair. And I hate the DevaCurl No-Poo and Low-Poo shampoos.
I do have a favorite conditioner: SheaMoisture Coconut & Hibiscus conditioner. Thatโs the only SheaMoisture product thatโs consistently worked great for me for years, despite reformulations. My hair loves that stuff so much, I also use it as my leave-in conditioner.
As for other products: I try to keep my hair routine simple. I wear my hair in its natural state, so Iโm a wash & go girlโand I really wanna wash (and condition, of course) and GO ๐, not spend hours on my hair each time I wash it. Aside from a leave-in conditioner, Iโm really liking the Olaplex bonding oil I recently bought. I donโt need to use much of it (using too much weighs down my coils), and it plays nicer with my leave-in than the Olaplex styling cream which flakes a lot sometimes. Between washes, I sometimes scrunch in Camille Rose Fresh Curl to refresh my coils as needed.
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