Alikay Naturals Dulce Hydrating Curl Lotion: Define & Hydrate Curls for Natural Hair 237ml
Lotion is the right word for it. This is thinner than a curl cream and considerably lighter than a butter, which makes it a good option for wavy and looser curly hair that gets flattened by anything heavier.
The trade in most curl products is between moisture and definition. Dulce goes after both: enough hydration to deal with the dryness that causes frizz in the first place, and enough hold to keep a curl pattern in shape, with none of the sticky residue or crunch a stronger styler leaves behind.
The name is worth taking at face value. Hydrating comes before curl in it, and that ordering is right, because most definition problems on wavy and curly hair are dryness problems wearing a different hat. Sort the moisture out and the pattern usually turns up on its own.
Apply to damp hair in sections, raking or scrunching depending on how much definition you are after, then dry however you normally would.
237ml / 8.01 oz. Made for wavy, curly and coily textures, roughly 2a through 4b, which is a wider range than most curl lotions manage to cover.
Aqua (Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Aloe Vera), Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Honey, Silk Amino Acids, Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5), Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Methosulfate, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sorbic Acid, Fragrance (Parfum)
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- Free over £40
- UK delivery is free on orders over £40. Below that it is a flat rate, shown at checkout before you pay.
- Tracking
- You get a tracking link by email the moment it is picked up.
- 30 days
- Send anything unopened back within 30 days for a full refund. No explanation needed.
- Opened it and it is wrong for your hair?
- Tell us what happened. Curl products are hard to judge from a photo, and we would rather swap it than have you stuck with it.
- We price match
- Find it cheaper somewhere else and we will match the price.
Application tips
Lotions like this need wet hair to spread evenly, so apply before the shower steam has cleared.
Take a section, rake it through with your fingers, then either shingle the strand between two fingers for definition or scrunch upwards for volume. Repeat around the head. Air dry or diffuse on low heat. Once it is dry, leave it alone.
Results
Curls dry defined and stay soft rather than setting into a shell.
Frizz drops, the pattern reads clearly from root to tip, and the hair keeps enough movement to bounce when you shake it out. Because it is a lotion rather than a gel there is no cast to break, so day one already looks the way day two usually does.
Composition
Full ingredients list
Aqua (Water), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Aloe Vera), Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Honey, Silk Amino Acids, Panthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5), Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Cetearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Methosulfate, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sorbic Acid, Fragrance (Parfum)
