Welcome, welcome, WELCOME to my new segment on the blog, Air Traffic Control! This will be the place where you can find product reviews that will hopefully direct you toward new things you’ll love and keep you away from products causing unnecessary traffic jams! I’m excited to start off the segment with a set of products I’ve wanted to try since they first came out: the L’Oreal EverCreme Moisture Care System!
I remember seeing these products on the shelves at CVS and I was super excited to see “SULFATE FREE” in big bold letters on the front. This was a good way to appeal to the curly/natural hair community, but I was little suspicious about its claim for triple action hydration. ALSO…have any of you ever used hair products with apricot oil? In all of the things that I’ve read about oils that naturals use, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone using apricot oil! If you know anything about its moisturizing properties, please leave comments down below! The same goes for gardenia, I actually love the smell of gardenias but I don’t think I’ve ever used gardenia hair products? Despite my suspicions, the products smelled INCREDIBLE! If you go back and read my advice for picking out products for your regimen in the huge sea of products that exist out there, you’ll see I picked stuff that I actually wanted to smell like, so this is a huge bonus in my book.
Now for the products…
I started out with the Renourishing Butter I loved that the container mentions you can use this as a co-wash, it shows they’re finally starting to think about the curly girl 🙂 I followed their suggestion and put it in as a detangler for co-washing and ended up following up with the Deep Nourish shampoo, but I think this saved the shampoo from just completely drying out my hair. As far as shampoos go, I feel like this one did its job? There really wasn’t anything to write home about. I felt like my hair was more dry than it would’ve been had I used a shampoo formulated for natural or curly hair. The Deep Nourish conditioner has a pretty good thickness but just wasn’t enough moisture for me at the end of the day! However, I was impressed with the littile bit of curl definition I had following my wash! That was a nice bonus, but overall I need more from a conditioner and felt like I needed to follow up with a really heavy leave in deep conditioner. With that being the case, I followed up with the Renourishing Butter after the conditioner as suggested for extra moisture and I think that helped too. Overall I think this is a pretty good product for what it’s worth, but I don’t think I’d trade any of my cowashes or detanglers made for natural hair to use it. It didn’t provide as much definition and moisture as I needed. This was definitely my favorite product of the set though, and I say that type 4 curls might be able to get away with using this if you’re in a pinch!
Overall, I’d say these products are pretty good for what they are worth but most likely won’t work for anyone with type 4 curls or hair that is prone to dryness. If you’ve tried these products, I’d love to hear your thoughts down below!
A huge thank you to Influenster for sending me these products free for testing purposes, however, all opinions are always my own!
