African Pride Moisture Miracle 5 Essential Oils 4oz
Five oils in one small bottle, and they are chosen to do different things. Castor is the heavy one that stays put. Coconut and olive sink in. Argan and grapeseed are light enough to finish a style without dulling it. Vitamin E rides along with them.
That spread is what makes a blend more useful than a single oil. You can use the same 4oz bottle as a pre-wash treatment, as a scalp oil between washes, and as a couple of drops on the ends of a finished twist-out, and it behaves differently in each role because the lighter oils sit on the hair differently from the heavy ones.
Warm a small amount in your palms and work it from roots to ends, massaging it into the scalp as you go. For a hot oil treatment, apply it before shampoo and leave it on. Used regularly it keeps the lengths supple enough to resist breakage, which is what protects the length you already have.
A word on quantity. Oils are the easiest thing in a routine to overdo, and a scalp carrying too much of one just needs washing sooner, which undoes the point. Two or three drops a section is plenty on most heads.
Aqua (Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Water, Glycerin, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Polysorbate 20, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Panthenol, Parfum (Fragrance), Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Disodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Benzyl Salicylate, Limonene, Linalool
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Application tips
Three drops in the palm, rubbed out flat, then pressed over the surface of a finished style. That is the finishing use.
For a hot oil, stand the bottle in warm water, apply through dry hair before you wash, and cover for twenty minutes. For scalp work, go in with a nozzle or a dropper along the partings so nothing lands on the lengths.
Results
The mix is light for an oil blend, so it dresses a style without dragging the pattern down. Light catches evenly along the length instead of pooling at the ends.
Dry ends soften and stop snapping off, and the scalp feels less tight after a massage with it.
Five oils in one bottle covers most of what a textured routine needs without stacking three products on a shelf.
Composition
- Castor Oil
- The heavy one, it stays put and keeps ends conditioned for days
- Argan Oil
- Absorbs quickly and smooths the surface without leaving a greasy film
- Grapeseed Oil
- Thin and light, it carries the blend without weighing curls down
- Vitamin E
- Antioxidant that helps the oils in the bottle stay fresh
Full ingredients list
Aqua (Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Water, Glycerin, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vitamin E), PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Polysorbate 20, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Panthenol, Parfum (Fragrance), Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Disodium EDTA, Citric Acid, Benzyl Salicylate, Limonene, Linalool
