How to use it
- Start with a small amount and add more if needed.
- Rake through soaking-wet hair, smooth through strands, then follow with a styler if desired.
Every wash day.
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
- Listed
- Curly Girl Method
- Lists Isopropyl Alcohol (a drying alcohol), which the method leaves out. What counts
- Hair texture, in Curlsmith’s words
- “Best for: Fine to Medium Textures”
Read the full ingredient list
Water (Aqua / Eau), Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Orbignya Speciosa Kernel Oil, Behentrimonium Chloride, Hylocereus Undatus Fruit Extract, Paullinia Cupana Seed Extract, Urtica Dioica (Nettle) Leaf Extract*, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract*, Sodium Hyaluronate, Panthenol, Astrocaryum Murumuru Seed Butter, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Polyquaternium-10, Isopropyl Alcohol, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Ethylhexylglycerin, Tocopherol, Glycerin, Sodium Hydroxide, Citric Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Fragrance (Parfum), Limonene, Linalool, Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, Citronellol, Dimethyl Phenethyl Acetate, Citrus Aurantium Peel Oil.
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.
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.