Updated on June 18th, 2021
Worried about keeping your hair nourished? Check. Want to know how to grow your hair long? Check. Want help dealing with your curls or frizz? You guessed it – Check. Look no further than this handy list of natural hair products for women of color.
1. Miss Jessie’s Curly Pudding
The Miss Jessie’s brand caters to kinky, coarse hair.
The legendary Curly Pudding is a leave-in product lengthens tight curls and transforms them into long ringlets. The formula contains moisturizing oils (jojoba, almond, avocado, macadamia seed) plus shea butter and aloe. Note that I included Curly Pudding here because it is a cult-favorite product — but know that recent reviews have been spotty. Try out a small 2-oz. tub to start.
You can find Curly Pudding on Amazon or at MissJessies.com.
2. Aveda Confixor Gel
Chock full of natural ingredients (white oak bark extract, flax seed extract, sarsaparilla extract, peppermint extract, lavender extract, rosemary extract, aloe barbadensis extract, coneflower extract), Aveda’s gel helps tone down frizz without being sticky. It also gives hair a thicker, glossier look and defines curls.
This 8.5-oz. bottle isn’t cheap ($22) but you only need a little at each application. The bottle should last you several months. Get it on Amazon.
3. Organic coconut butter styling pomade
Darcy’s Botanicals’ Coconut Butter Styling Pomade is a product born from a small home business that focuses on organic beauty products. It acts as an awesome hair finisher, giving curly hair a glossy shine. The ingredient list is short: Organic virgin coconut oil, peach kernel oil, beeswax, and vitamin E. All natural and organic.
Buy it from Darcy’s Botanicals.
4. Mimosa Hair Honey
Mimosa Hair Honey by Carol’s Daughter is a treatment designed specifically for dry, brittle, textured hair. Key ingredients include corn oil, beeswax, cocoa butter, lavender, sage, and red clover. It’s a nourishing product that styles, too, and you can use it daily.
Buy it on Amazon.
Burt’s Bees Deep Conditioner
Burt’s Bees Deep Conditioner uses natural ingredients to treat dry and broken hair in just two minutes. Apply it after shampooing, let it soak in for two minutes, and then rinse. It conditions, moisturizes, and adds a glassy shine.
Buy Burt’s Bees Deep Conditioner on Amazon.