How to use it
- Start with a dime-size amount and add more if you need it.
- Rake it through soaking-wet hair so every strand is coated, then smooth it down with flat palms.
- Follow with your styler.
Regular wash days.
Leave-in follows rinsing. It does not automatically replace a rinse-out conditioner or heat protectant. See where this step fits .
Ingredients and formula details
Makers change formulas now and then. If the list on your bottle differs, go by your bottle.
- Fragrance / Parfum
- Not listed
- Curly Girl Method
- Lists ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL (a drying alcohol), which the method leaves out. What counts
Read the full ingredient list
WATER (AQUA/EAU), RICINUS COMMUNIS (CASTOR) SEED OIL, DICAPRYLYL CARBONATE, CETEARYL ALCOHOL, ORBIGNYA SPECIOSA (BABASSU) KERNEL OIL, BEHENTRIMONIUM CHLORIDE, PANTHENOL, ASTROCARYUM MURUMURU SEED BUTTER, SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS (JOJOBA) SEED OIL, BUTYROSPERMUM PARKII (SHEA) BUTTER, HUMULUS LUPULUS (HOPS) EXTRACT, JASMINUM OFFICINALE (JASMINE) FLOWER EXTRACT, CITRUS LIMON (LEMON) PEEL EXTRACT, POLYQUATERNIUM-10, ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL, GUAR HYDROXYPROPYLTRIMONIUM CHLORIDE, TOCOPHEROL, DISODIUM EDTA, ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN, GLYCERIN, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SODIUM BENZOATE, PHENOXYETHANOL
These are formula details, not predictions of conditioning, hold or how your hair will respond. Read about ingredient comparisons .
What the maker doesn’t say
Curlsmith says the ingredient list on its website and the one on the product may differ while it updates a formula. Go by the one on the product.
Curlsmith says to start with a dime-size amount and add more if you need it. Measure your usual amount once, and the cost calculator does the rest.
Every fact here comes from what Curlsmith publishes for this product; our sources page lists each one. Holding the product? Check its ingredient list.