I Recommend The ORS Professional Relaxer Normal Strength

When I decided to go natural I swore I wouldn't relax my hair again, but I gave in and broke my promise.  When I did decide to relax my hair and wanted to do it with something that was as natural as possible and wouldn't damage my hair.

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ORS Olive Oil Moisturizing Hair Lotion Review

Positives

Moisturizes, Adds Shine, Detangles, Nice Smell, Didn't Revert My Hair, Hair Stayed Straight

Negatives

Weighs Hair Down, Not 100% Natural

MY EXPERIENCE

INTRO 

I've gotten really frustrated with how slow and tedious it is to get my videos up and running and on to Youtube, but after I wash my hair for the first time after changing relaxers and giving my hair time to adjust I will try to do short videos about my experience and some more product reviews.  However, if you came to my blog by a search engine stay awhile.

I want to review the ORS Olive Oil Moisturizing Hair Lotion, I love using natural products for my body and skin.  But after making the decision to go back to relaxers I've decided to try some products that lady's on Youtube have used that's been doing really well for them.  That's how I came to purchase this product, I still couldn't get the right information that I needed from what they where saying.  So I decided that I would just give it a try.

YOUR HAIR CAN USE SOME MOISTURE

I originally purchased the Wave Noveau Moisturizing Finishing Lotion first because it was clear from what I got from Youtube that this did moisturize, but the problem I had with it is it reverts your hair back.  I never used it on my flat ironed hair, but when I did roller set's I would use it two days after for more moisture every day.  Let me tell you the moisturize and seal technique is no fun, it takes time at least for me.  I then purchased the ORS Olive Oil Moisturizing Hair Lotion, but I only tried it on a small section of my hair and didn't continue using it because I liked the Wave Noveau and wanted to use it all up first.  I also knew from doing my research that it can weigh your hair down.  I found out that using the Wave Noveau Moisturizing Finishing Lotion did moisturize my dry and thirsty hair and seem to make stretching easier.  I eventually got tired of it though, because my hair would revert in the summer's heat.  This may not be the style, but it could just have mean't my hair was well moisturize and perhaps taking in whatever moisture that was in the air.

MY FIRST REAL USE OF ORS OLIVE OIL MOISTURIZING HAIR LOTION

After going from texlaxed to relaxed and rollersetting my hair with the Kinky Curly Knot Today I wasn't loving the feel of it.  So I decided to use the Ors Olive Oil Moisturizer since it is the seem brand as the relaxer I used.  I did my hair in really small sections applied from the roots to the ends and combed it through with a small rat tail comb.  It really did moisturize my hair, which I loved and helped to detangle it.  It's been since Thursday and I've used a little in my hair everyday since.  I didn't need to rollerset my hair again, or blow dry and flat iron it.  It didn't revert my hair after putting it in, and or after going out in the summer's heat.  I've done pin curls the last few days.  I'm happy that shedding is staying to a minimum and so is breakage.  I just gave myself a trim today, applied some more of the moisturizer and my shea butter and coconut mixture and combed my hair.  It's not as weighed down as the other day's.

THE INGREDIENTS

I want to provide you with the ingredients so you can decide for yourself if you want to use it, because it's not 100% natural.  

Ingredients 
Aqua (Water) , Cocos Nucifera Oil (Coconut) , Sorbitol , Petrolatum , Cyclopentasiloxane , Carthamus Tinctorius Seed Oil (Safflower) , Ricinus Communis Seed Oil (Castor) , Cetyl Esters , Cetearyl Alcohol , Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate , Stearic Acid , Olea Europaea Fruit Oil (Olive) , PPG-3 Benzyl Ether Myristate , Dimethicone , Glyceryl Stearate , DMDM Hydantoin , Methylparaben , Propylparaben , Propylene Glycol , Triethanolamine , Carbomer , Disodium EDTA , BHT , Fragrance , Benzyl Alcohol , Benzyl Salicylate , Geraniol , Hexyl Cinnamal , Lilial , D-Limonene , Linalool , Lyral Methyl Ionone , CI 42090 (Blue #1) , CI 19140 (Yellow #5)

IS THERE A NATURAL ALTERNATIVE

There should be natural products that compare to the consistency of the product and what it does, but trying different product's get's expensive.  That's why it's great to have help online.  I never really used daily leave in moisturizers, I'm just learning about them.  So I will be on the hunt for a natural 100% leave in, I will also try the Wave Noveau on my newly relaxed hair and see what happens, it doesn't have as many ingredients as the Ors Olive Oil Moisturizing Hair Lotion. 

Wave Noveau 

Ingredients 
Aqua (Water) , Propylene Glycol , Glycerin , Cetearyl Alcohol , Cetyl Alcohol , Polyquaternium-11 , Behentrimonium Methosulfate , Dimethicone , Methylparaben , Fragrance , Chlorhexidine Dihydrochloride , Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein , Butylphenyl Methylpropional , Linalool , Simethicone , CI 16035 (Red 40)

Natural Joyanne

Switching Relaxers Phytospecific to ORS

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I thought that the Phytospecific Relaxer was going to stay with me for the rest of my relaxed journey, however I have several hair goals


HAIR GOALS


1) Less breakage on wash days.
For some reason I have alot of shedding and breakage on wash days and it's been that way before I relaxed, I was extra careful with my natural hair.  But when I was natural I only washed every month, then every two weeks then every week at the ending of my natural hair journey. Just this Sunday I conditioner washed my hair, then decided that I really needed to relax my hair so I decided to wet it again wash with shampoo, treat it all in preparation for the relaxer.  Well I sure lost alot of hair, my hair was matted really bad, it's only been matted like this one other time when I was natural and I used a shampoo I had never used before on my hair without braiding it in four first.  I washed my hair out, big mistake.  I've recovered from hair mistakes I made before, I'm thinking that in another 6 months the hair that was broken will big longer.  But since I have alot of hair, it's still thick.


2) Length
I have a length goal for my hair and it's getting there, just have to fix this hair lost on wash day's that has battled me since day one of my hair journey natural and relaxed.  The length I want is for my hair in the front to be just below my breast, then I will have to trim it more regular to maintain the length.


GOALS I REACHED FOR NOW


1) Hair Treatment That Strengthens Hair
After trying the Queen Helene I think that this is the treatment for my hair for now, it made my hair much stronger than the ORS Replenshing Conditioner and minimize the split ends.
2) More Moisture
I achieved this, however I really don't like the moisture and seal method it ruins my hairstyle and is time consuming for me.  Doing pin curls and putting my hair in a bun kept my hair from tangling, but protective styles only cause more shedding and breakage for me.


3) Less Heat
I used rollers for a long time, like 2 months instead of heat and found out that using snap on rollers where easier with or without the snaps.  Only started switching to flat ironing more recently because of the humidity and tangles.


Now lets talk about the mean topic switching to ORS Relaxer, I'm going to try this relaxer to see if it will eliminate the hair loss I have on wash day's.  I believe that since the Phytospecific relaxer texlaxed my hair, it is making it difficult to be detangled when wet when the new growth comes in.  The ends of my hair isn't that difficult to detangle just the roots.  Doesn't sound like it makes sense, but I'm going to try the relaxer and see if it will make a difference.  Before relaxing I considered cutting my natural shorter so I wouldn't have to deal with it as much.  But it was hard to give up the length so vanity won in the end.  I also believe that stretching isn't for me, I need to stretch to 2 months and 2 weeks perhaps and just do a small touch up to the roots.  So far the first relaxer I made it to 4 months and this time to 3 months.  Now that I know to base my scalp and just do touch's ups I won't be exposing myself to the chemicals anymore than I need to.  Will post my results.


Natural Joyanne

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