Innersense Organic Beauty I Create Curl Memory Gelee

Doesn't play well with my leave-in products because the negative charge Xantham gum reacts with other ingredients and causes flaking. It also leaves my hair stringy and doesn't improve after day 2. Might work for you if you don't need leave-in.

My stylist used this gel at my last visit and loved it. You have to know how to style with this gel, just like any other very strong hold gel. For example, I add my leave in conditioner (my hair doesn't like creams), a base light gel. Then; when styling with something like a denman brush, I add this gel to every section as I go. If finger raking, I just add this gel at the end with praying hands and scrunch. You can see my results in the pictures. I washed today and didn't have much time to use my denman brush so, instead, I finger raked and scrunched. Then I plopped with a T-shirt while I did my makeup and diffused after about 15 minutes. Most times I go straight to diffusing. My daughter, who also has curly hair (2b/3a) also liked this gel so will continue to buy it. :-)

I typically like gels that leave a good cast on my curly hair. I recently stopped using Garnier Pure Clean as their ingendients changed and I can't get it to work any longer. I tried this gel as my hairstylist used it on me at my last cut and I fell in love with the results. OH, there's the cast I haven't achieved in quite sometime. Actually more than I bargained. A little goes a long way but I didn't know so used a little more and left a lot of cast. Usually I have to touch up my hair on 2nd day, not today. Still, I know next time to use a little less. The weather where I live is dry so I always need hold. I will be using this alternating with another (less hold) gel when I don't need that much if I am just staying home. But this will be a keeper for me.

Just because it's a clean brand doesn't need the ingredients are going to work well with your hair type. My hair type is medium length, medium hair shaft, thick and dry because I live on the West Coast. And even though the climate is dry and has little humidity but dry heat. This product does terrible for my hair. I had hope for it but with all the oils in it it doesn't really do What it's supposed to and there's botanicals like lavender oil in it. Well it doesn't cause me of itchy my scalp it had to return it because I couldn't break the cast to wear my hair ended up being soft. Does it hold the curl? Yes absolutely but the drying effect was not pleasant.

For some reason my hair dried super fast using this product, left my hair soft and my curls have lasted a long time.