Grow & Strengthen custard - Love this product! Works great to slick my hair down, esp. my edges. Can be used alone as a leave-in and styler, but I prefer to use a regular leave-in under it (more to do w/ my routine than the product). It gives a medium hold, w/ no crunchiness and has a really good shine to it. I don't think I'll go back to regular gels.
Indian Hemp and Tamanu custard - Seems to work similar to the other one (need to try it out more), but I think I like the other custard better. But it still works great at slicking my hair & is the same level of hold as the other.
Hair butter - I really like this butter. It's the first hair butter I've tried, so I don't yet have a comparison to how other butters work (but I'm expecting some whipped shea butter this week in the mail). It feels very smooth, kinda like a pomade (and the directions say it can be used as one), but not the creamy smooth texture I expected from a butter. It feels a bit greasy when I first put it on & it can weigh my hair down if I use a lot. But it soaks in my hair wonderfully. It saved my ends. Seriously. My ends were acting a FOOL over the summer (I couldn't even do wash n' go's) and using my regular oils (coconut & jojoba) wasn't helping at all. My ends were tangly and crazy (I think in reaction to a protein treatment I did). Once this butter soaked in, it made my ends feel luscious. Using this product has gotten me curious about using other butters.
Indian Hemp and Tamanu masque - Smells wonderful. Says on the package that it can be used as a treatment or leave-in. I tried it as a leave-in but wasn't really impressed. It wasn't bad (and I've definitely used worse). But it doesn't hold a candle to my holy grail leave-in (from As I Am). I can't remember if I've already tried it as a deep conditioner and I'm kinda scared to use it too much (at least in the near future) b/c of the hard keratin protein. But I feel like it would work well if I was in need of a protein treatment.
. My hair is soft, but way too proteiny. Like it's matting.
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