What Natural Hair Products Should I Use?

Especially when you are new to going natural, it’s easy for you to sucked into product hype. The number one thing that newly naturals fall for is that they should only use organic or “all natural” natural hair products. Regardless if a product is all natural or not, if it works for your hair use it. In fact, some synthetic ingredients do a better job at penetrating our hair than “all natural” products do.

Now if a product is all natural and works great for your hair, this is great. However, just because another product is not an all natural product does not mean that is less worthy. If anything the only thing that matters is the PH levels of the products. To know which products have a good PH balance you can judge it according to the ingredients that are used in the product and then learning what their levels are or you can buy PH testing strips ( A product with a PH level between 3.5 to 7 is preferable).

There are no absolute product brands that you must have, but these are the kinds of products that you should definitely have:

A quality conditioner

Shampoo (If you can avoid the sulfate shampoos do so,  they can be drying to the hair)

Water based moisturizer or leave-in conditioner

Butter or creme moisturizer

Oil

Curl Friendly Product Ingredients: 

Shea Butter

Aloe

Jojoba Oil

Olive Oil

Glycerin

The battle of the Alcohols

While some alcohols are drying to the hair, some actually work well to strengthen our hair like Cetyl Alcohol. Short Chain alcohols such as SD alcohol, SD alcohol 40, Alcohol denat, Propanol, Propyl alcohol and Isopropyl alcohol are a group that you may want to be cautious of. Just be sure to pay attention to how high they are on your product ingredient label are they closer to the top or the bottom? This will tell you how potent this ingredient is in the product that you are purchasing.

Finding What Works for You 

Pay attention to how the product is working out for you. Is it keeping your hair moisturized? Is it flaking it out? Researching what product ingredients to look out for can help you to narrow down a product that will most likely produce the  most benefit for you. However, the most important aspect of finding a product that works for you is using your own judgement.