Review (5/5): Better than WEN for multi-texture black hair
Let me start of by saying I use this product alone now for everyone in the house for co-washing. I have relaxed hair that I am trying to transition back to natural. I have about four inches of regrowth and I am trying to avoid the big chop until I have at least ten inches of stretched regrowth. Well due to the two different textures in my head, I have to be very careful about breakage and damage. This stuff has helped me be able to manage my hair when wet very well. My natural hair is that frizzy deep wave pattern. My oldest daughter has very fragile, very dry relaxed hair and my two youngest have natural hair. One has very kinky coiled low porous hair that is actually very long when braided but is the type of hair that has a lot of shrinkage and my other daughter has kind of loose wavy curls but with lots of frizz.
All of us have long hair and I used to use WEN or the generic version called Just One or one from Sally's for years. Both are expensive. WEN is really ridiculous on the price and for our hair at least I had to use a lot to get it slippery. Lots of times the WEN left my own hair feeling kind of stripped. Well I got this a couple years back to try out not thinking much based on the price and let me tell you it has worked great on ALL of our different hair textures! The smell is ten times better too. It has completely replaced WEN/Just One. It really does moisturize/condition the hair, not just detangle.
I use this three different ways. First just as it's advertised which is a co-wash. Great for when the hair is not very dirty and you don't need to use a clarifying shampoo. I will say that I had to apply it a bit differently to my middle baby girls hair to get the best slippage and moisturizing. I think it's because like I said, her hair is not very porous. With her hair I have to get it very wet with water a bit hotter than I use on the others, usually I start mid length and apply downward to the ends and then add some to the roots but on her I have to add a bit to the roots first after sectioning it, Then massage like I would when shampooing, then rinse just a bit then apply the rest from end up to scalp and doing it that way for some reason makes the comb out easy.Then I follow with a rinse and go through the normal conditioning process. Secondly I use it as a detangling conditioner after doing a clarifying shampoo. When I use it this way I rinse some of it out after combing, add my other conditioning products and basically sit under a hot cap making it a deep conditioner. and the third way I use this is heavily diluted in a spray bottle of water, like maybe a tablespoon in a smaller spray bottle basically to refresh and re-moisturize my younger girls braid out styles. Lots of times I do it that way before bed. It works great, detangles, good slippage, makes it easy to comb/brush out any dirt or dust that may have got on the hair and a great way to add your butters and sealing oils instead of on dry hair, which may work for some but I have never had luck adding oils to mine or my girls hair while it was dry. I usually only need one bottle of this the whole month.
This product has especially made a huge difference in the condition of my oldest daughters relaxed hair. It is now very healthy where before it was so dry. She was having breakage before. Her hair was like straw at the ends.This and another product that has really combated her dryness is called Olive Cream by Hollywood beauty. It is water based so some people may not want to use it as a hairdressing on already flat ironed or hair that has already been styled for the day,but that stuff works great on her hair.
I know hair is one of those things that's different for everyone so what this has done for us may not work for you or yours but for the price you can't really go wrong in at least giving it a try.
As for this stuff by Pantene, I just pray they DO NOT CHANGE THEIR FORMULA! It works great for us just the way it is.