Heather Kennett walks through Boots' hair-care aisle checking products against Curly Girl Method rules. Most masks and creams contain silicone or heavy oils, which damage curls. She finds one CGM-approved gel that works across curl types and urges you to read every ingredient list.
We're in Boots. Can we find any products that are Curly Girl Method approved? Let's dive into a random product here. So this is a hair mask has coconut oil in, which wouldn't really recommend, and keratin, which isn't for everybody. Okay, so that's a no because it has the silicone in and it has a lot of coconut oil in too, and keratin, so not that one. Let's see if we can find a styling product. Let's have a look at this. It's looking good so far. Oh, no, we can't use that. It's the silicone. It's really weird. So I've been looking up and down and I'm trying to find a hair gel. I've always heavily relied on hair gel and I can't find one. They've got creams like we have casting cream, but there's not one option for a hair gel. I don't know. So loads of these products are actually pretty heavy, so they all have, like, heavy oils and a really heavy formula. So that's not going to be great for everybody's hair. On the flip side, though, something that probably a lot of you may know is this is always a firm favourite for lots of different ways and curl types and it's Curly Girl Method approved. There are products out there. It's not all that bad, but you do need to have a look at the ingredients to make sure it's working with you. We do have a list of the ingredients that you need to avoid and if you'd like that, just comment ingredients and I'll send it over to you.
