How to use it
- On freshly washed, damp hair, apply a liberal amount from root to tip.
- Style, then air-dry or use heat.
- On day two or three, mist hair with water until damp, apply again and restyle.
Pick one styling product to begin with. A foam and a strong-hold gel do not have identical instructions. 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
- Fits its ingredient rules: no sulfate, silicone, drying alcohol or wax on this label. What counts · More products that fit
- Hold, in Mielle’s words
- “manageable hold”
Read the full ingredient list
Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Honey, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Acrylates Copolymer, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Orbignya Oleifera (Babassu) Seed Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Maltodextrin/VP Copolymer, Althea Offinalis (Marshmallow) Root Extract, Pectin, Parfum (Fragrance), Zingiber Offinale (Ginger) Root Oil, Carbomer, Xanthan Gum, Dehydroacetic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol
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
Mielle says to use a liberal amount but doesn’t say how much that is. Measure your usual amount once, and the cost calculator does the rest.
Every fact here comes from what Mielle publishes for this product; our sources page lists each one. Holding the product? Check its ingredient list.