Cantu Strengthening Styling Gel with Jamaican Black Castor Oil for Defined Curls & Healthy Hair 524 g/18.48 oz
The pot is 524 g, which is a lot of gel by any standard, and it is the reason this one keeps turning up in bathroom cupboards. If you wash and style weekly, it lasts months. Cantu sells it as a strengthening gel, and the size is part of that pitch: this is meant to be the gel you reach for every week, not a treatment you ration.
Cantu built it around Jamaican black castor oil, so it conditions as it holds. The hold is firm enough for a defined wash-and-go and soft enough that you can break the cast without the whole style collapsing. Frizz stays down, shine comes up, and there is no white flaking as it dries.
- Holds wash-and-gos, twist-outs and braid-outs through the week
- Defines curls and coils without setting hard
- Conditions with castor oil rather than drying hair out
- Reduces the breakage that comes with daily restyling
It is a wet-styling gel, which matters more than it sounds. Applied to half-dry hair it goes patchy and you lose most of the definition it is capable of, so work in sections on hair that is still dripping, smooth it down the length, then leave it alone until it is fully dry.
Made for type 3b to 4c hair. 524 g / 18.48 oz.
Water (Aqua), Carbomer, Glycerin, Polysorbate 20, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Fragrance (Parfum), Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Hydroxide, Caramel, Limonene, Benzyl Benzoate, Linalool, Hexyl Cinnamal, Citral
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- Free over £40
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- 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
Wet hair, and wet means wet. Take a scoop per section, smooth it down, then rake and scrunch. Work fast so the hair does not start drying mid-application.
Air dry or diffuse without touching it, then break the cast with a little oil once it is completely dry. Applying it to damp hair gives you half the definition.
Results
Curls hold for the week without going hard. The cast breaks easily and what is underneath stays defined rather than collapsing, which is the test a cheap gel fails.
Frizz stays down, shine comes up, and there is no white flaking as it dries. Hair feels conditioned inside the hold instead of dry and squeaky by day three.
Composition
- Jamaican Black Castor Oil
- Conditions the strand while the gel holds, so hair stays soft
Full ingredients list
Water (Aqua), Carbomer, Glycerin, Polysorbate 20, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Fragrance (Parfum), Tetrasodium EDTA, Sodium Hydroxide, Caramel, Limonene, Benzyl Benzoate, Linalool, Hexyl Cinnamal, Citral
