Butters/Pomades moisturizers or sealers?

[CurlyCoilycourt]

After a year of being natural seems like i'm not 100% knowledgeable which I thought i would be (kind of embarrassing) at this point. I'm on a bun/pony regi trying to grow out this heat damage...

I usually co-wash or water rinse apply a leave in (Darcy's Botanicals) and then use a butter (Bee Mine) to smooth my hair down. I just wanted to know do I need to seal on top of the butter or is the butter a sealant on its on?

TIA

 

[La Colocha]

To me butters, oils, pomades, vasaline are sealants. I would not use them any other way. If what your doing is working keep doing it.

 

[silenttullip]

To me butters can be both. When it comes to pomades or oils those are usually greasier and rarely penetrate so I limit that to sealing. I take a butter / cream from myhoneychild or qhemet and put some on AFTER I use my oil so although it makes my hair moisturized it's always the last thing I do.

Leave in - giovanni direct diluted with water sometimes I skip moisturizing if glycerin is an issue
Moisturize - hawiian silky or moisturizing lotion
Seal - oil (jbco)
Lock - butter/cream

So if it was me I'd put an oil after the leave in but before the butter. It's helped my hair so much.
I think it came from chicoro to do it that way because before I did kinda what you do and it worked but not as well

 

[discodumpling]

Depends on your hair & what's in the butter. If I use my cocoshealoe mix to moisturize I need nothing else to seal this in...for me it's 2 products in one.

Also if you have fine strands that don't like (or need) to be weighed down it might be preferrable to use the butter only or as I sometimes do, just my oil on top of my leave in.

 

[Imani]

To me butters can be both. When it comes to pomades or oils those are usually greasier and rarely penetrate so I limit that to sealing. I take a butter / cream from myhoneychild or qhemet and put some on AFTER I use my oil so although it makes my hair moisturized it's always the last thing I do.

Leave in - giovanni direct diluted with water sometimes I skip moisturizing if glycerin is an issue
Moisturize - hawiian silky or moisturizing lotion
Seal - oil (jbco)
Lock - butter/cream

So if it was me I'd put an oil after the leave in but before the butter. It's helped my hair so much.
I think it came from chicoro to do it that way because before I did kinda what you do and it worked but not as well

I was actually just thinking about this and may do it exactly as you have laid out above. I saw something similar on someone's website about natural hair. Even though she has a looser texture than I do, it seemed to work well. She skipped the moisturizer tho and just used the leave in, which was actually the same as u mentioned, the giovanni. She sealed with like an oil based pomade instead of just oil. And finished with a butter/creme styling product for hold

 

[Xaragua]

I have to agree with La Colocha I consider oils, butters, pomades as sealant.

 

[FebeeSigns]

A butter along with Oil and pomades, are sealants. Moisturizers can be water based or cream based.