Dark and Lovely Healthy Gloss 5 Shea Moisture Relaxer

Contents:

Shea Butter Conditioning Relaxer Creme with build-in Pre-Care

Creme Activator

Silk Keratin Serum

Healthy-Gloss Moisture Conditioner

Healthy-Gloss Moisture Hair Creme

Wooden Spatula 

Instructions

Gloves

What the product promises:

1) Moisture

2) Shine

3) Strength

4) Softness

5) Body

6) "Recharges hair with 5X more conditioning power for Moisture and Body."

My Review:

I LOVE this product. A few weeks before I had purchased the regular relaxer, I noticed that they offered the product in Super, Regular and for Color Treated Hair. After I had come from work it was already late and I was rushing to catch the beauty supply store before it closed that night. Saturday, the next day, was going to be extremely busy and I wouldn't have enough time for the commute. I just made it to the beauty supply store as it was closing and I quickly grabbed the box off the shelf completely forgetting about the fact that the product also catered to us color-treated girls. 

I loved this product so much that I purchased another box from Walmart but there was no box for color-treated hair. Regardless, the product was gentle enough on my hair and I experienced little hair-loss (you guys know what I mean-after relaxing, neutralizing and conditioning when you comb out your hair). 

What I enjoyed the most about this product was the fact that before you wash your hair with the neutralizing shampoo that there is a Silk Keratin Serum that you add to the hair. I really think that this step strengthened my hair.

 A lot of times after relaxing my hair, I've had very straight hair but it lacks body. Also, there have been a time or two when my hair has been texlaxed because I didnt want to leave the product in too long for fear of loosing hair. This relaxer left my hair straight but with body. I wish I had taken pictures. I just let my hair air-dry and I was good to go.

After using this product, I feel as if SoftSheen Carson has been watching YouTube videos and listening to and heading the concerns and feedback from its customers and the public in general. The fact that a relaxer was made that contained Shea Butter and also had a step in between relaxing and neutralizing proved this. They also know that there are several other companies to compete with and the Creme Activator also proves this. 

Recommendations:

I wish that the instructions were a better in terms of how long to leave the relaxer in. The instructions recommend performing a strand test and then adjusting the timing based on this for fine and color-treated hair. Medium hair had a limit of 15-18 minutes and coarse hair had a limit of 18-20 minutes. For my fine hair, I used the 'touch and go method'. Lol, my way of saying that I didnt have much time on my hands and did the relaxer without the strand test. Would I recommend someone else doing this? No! I'm assuming that the instructions advised as such because there are 3 different types of relaxers and also because everyone's hair reacts differently to the products. 

I've always been a fan of SoftSheen Carson but have never used any of the Dark and Lovely Products. The Optimum Salon Quality is my go to (and before this favorite) relaxer. But, I honestly wanted to switch things up after a while. People change and I didnt want to have a bone straight relaxer because I'm always getting caught out in the rain. 

Would I buy this again? :

Of course! The box I bought also had a $2 off coupon and I ended up buying the Leave- In Treatment which I also love and will post a review up at a later date. 

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