REVIEW: The Pomade Shop's LinoMoist Conditioning Pomade

This product review is sponsored by The Pomade Shop.

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Company info:

"LinoMoist Conditioning Pomade combines the nourishment of a moisturizer with the styling action of a pomade.

Product Review: Suave Professionals Humectant Conditioner For Dry Hair

Suave Professionals Humectant Conditioner For Dry Hair

What they say:

Deeply Moisturizes as well as Nexxus®*.

Suave Professionals Humectant Conditioner restores moisture to dry or damaged hair - for less than the more expensive brands. 

• Humectant Formula with Panthenol and Keratin replenishes moisture as well as Nexxus® Humectress®**.
• Moisturizing Formula restores hair leaving it soft and manageable

Ingredients:

Water (Aqua), Cetearyl Alcohol, Centrimonium Chloride, Dimethicone, Fragrance (Parfum) (Parfum), Quaternium 18, Potassium Chloride, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Propylene Glycol, Disodium EDTA, TEA Dodecylbenzene Sulfonate, DMDM Hydantoin, Glycerin, Panthenol, Hair Keratin Amino Acids, Sodium Chloride, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone

Price: 

$3.40 for 12.6oz.

Directions:

For best results- use with Suave Humectant Shampoo. Apply conditioner, distrubute evenly and rinse. Gentle enough for color-treated hair.

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What I say:

Hair with the conditioner in it.

Consistency

• Nice smell
• Nice consistency(not too thick, not to thin)
• Good for deep condition, and wash and go
• A little goes a long way but I like to drench my hair in it
• Works best for me by itself. No oils added.
• Lots of slip
• Hair feels soft and hydrated.
• Way cheaper than Nexxus Humectress($3.49 for 12.6oz. to $4.99 for 3oz.)

I use it on my wash days and ever since then I've never been able to replace it. It has really made a huge difference in the moisture level of my hair when I deep condition. I actually stumbled upon it when I was looking for my long used Neutrogena Triple Moisture Deep Recovery Mask. I find that I'm not able to wash it all out but that's because my hair is very thick. I have  to do a comparison to Nexxus Emergencee as I feel the two are great in their own ways. Overall, it works great on my type 4ab kinky hair. 

Rating: 4.7 out of 5

Product Review: Grape Seed Oil

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I've recently started looking for alternative moisturizing products because I feel like the commercial stuff isn't cutting it anymore for my oily/combination/who knows? skin. It's always been in the back of my mind but I was inspired by Moptopmaven to try more natural alternatives. She's covered oil cleansing which opened up possibilities of me exploring that and finding a non-commercial moisturizer. After much research I came up with jojoba and grape seed oils for moisturizing as I didn't have the guts to try oil cleansing.

I tried jojoba and while it was light it was still too heavy for my skin and clogged my pores. I later tried grape seed oil and have been using it for a few months. I can say that I really like it so far. It feels very light and silky, and absorbed very quickly, way faster than the jojoba. I also don't have an oily look to my face. I only used two drops so based on this a $4 bottle of this oil should last a mighty long time if it's only used for face. I use this regularly(about 6 months) and it doesn't clog my pores as my face feels great right now (hope this keeps up), I'd like to reap the benefits of the essential fatty acids.

What oils do you use for moisturizing? Are there any other natural alternatives to commercial products that you use besides moisturizing products? Please share.