Top 5 Curly Hair Styling Products

Curls, kinks and coils require extra hydration – and protection from frizz and heat! Include these curl-nourishing shampoos, conditioners, treatments and stylers into your client’s routine for impressive texture.

This hydrating cream can be used either alone as an all-in-one styler, or combined with gels and foams for additional hold and volume. Perfect for texturised hair, its ingredients include shea butter and natural oils that nourish it from within.

1. Briogeo Curl Defining Cream

Curl creams are a unique styling product, providing light hold to your locks while conditioning each strand. Curl creams pair well with gels and foams but can also be used by themselves as one-and-done stylers.

Briogeo’s curl-defining creme helps increase hydration, reduce frizz and provide soft, flexible control over waves and curls. Formulated with rice amino acids to seal cuticles against humidity that causes frizz; tomato fruit ferment further enhances moisture retention for consistent curl formation.

2. Cantu Curl Protectant

For naturally curly, kinky and wavy hair. Formulated with shea butter to strengthen strands and define and increase volume of natural curl pattern. Product free from mineral oil, sulfates, parabens silicone phthalates and gluten.

Apply section by section, focusing on ends. Comb through or detangle to ensure even distribution before air drying or diffusing for air dry. Can be used alone or combined with other Cantu products; perfect for braids, weaves and locs!

3. Ouidad Curl Defining Gel

This weightless gel was specifically created to protect curls from humidity. Sealing moisture into each strand, it protects them from humidity while increasing definition, fighting frizz and adding definition. With no crunchiness to worry about, your curls will feel soft and touchable too. For best results use with clean wet hair using the Rake & Shake technique and then blow-dry or air dry as required.

This product has won the Best of Beauty award.

4. Matrix Curl Defining Mousse

This moisturizing mousse helps strengthen curls with its blend of oils and natural extracts, such as Cactus Flower Extract, Maracuja Oil & Red Algae that are packed with vital nourishing nutrients to boost hair strength.

This lightweight defining mousse from A Curl Can Dream’s defining system is perfect for all curls & coils. Packed with Manuka Honey extract to preserve the curl pattern without flake or crunchiness, this versatile product is easily used with roller sets, flexi rods or twist outs for optimal results.

5. Davines Medium Hold Modeling Gel

Davines Medium Hold Modelling Gel is an all-in-one styling gel that hydrates while providing a high shine finish, as well as helping reduce frizz and flyaway hairs for an unbroken finish.

Define and provide structure to hair quickly while drying quickly without leaving residues or leading to dryness. Packed with memory effect and anti-frizz actions for anti-frizz action while adding body and elasticity for curls.

It is paraben-free and does not include any artificial color additives. It contains an aromatic blend of woody, resinous cypress and citrusy floral ginger for optimal performance.

6. Amika Styling Gel

Nylon’s Beauty Hit List Awards honored this weatherproof curl-boosting gel as the best natural/curly hair styling product, as it effectively combats frizz and stiffness while gently stretching and twisting curls to define their shape – leaving bouncy, beautiful locks without any crunchy texture!

Formulated with hydrolyzed wheat protein for body, strength and shape; extracted oat peptide from oat kernel to provide protection and lock in moisture for shine and silkiness; plus sea buckthorn berry which moisturizes hair, fights free radicals and promotes collagen production for added benefits.

7. SheaMoisture Coconut & Hibiscus + Flaxseed Defining Styling Gel

Ideal for creating twist-out braids or wash n go styles, SheaMoisture’s non alcohol based styling gel nourishes hair with its blend of natural oils and protein from SheaMoisture’s Shea Butter* while simultaneously conditioning its structure using coconut oil, cocos nucifera oil, hibiscus rosa-sinensis flower extract, Melia Azadirachta Neem Seed Oil as well as Linum Usitatissimum Flax Seed Oil. Ingredients include Water (eau), Propylene Glycol Polysorbate 20 Carrageenan Polysorbate 20 Carrageenan* Shea Butyrospermum Parkii Shea Butter* Cocos Nucifera Coconut oil is then applied. Ingredients used include Water (eau), propanediol polysorbate 20 Carrageenan with zero parabens or petrolatum; no parabens or petrolatum mineral oil or petrolatum present; Formulated without parabens or Petroatum mineral oil or petrolatum: water (eau), propanediol Polysorbate 20, Polysorbate 20, Cocos Nucifera Coconut oil* Cocos Nucifera Coconut oil** Cocos Nucifera Coconut oil* cocos Nucifera Coconut oil), Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis Flower extract* Cocos Nucifera Coconut oil** Cocos Nucifera Coconut oil* Cocos Nucifera Coconut oil** Cocos Nucifum Usitatissimum Usitatisimum usitatissimum usitatissss), propanediol polysorbate 20, polysorbates 20, Cocoa 21 (cococococonut Oil Cocos nucifera coconut Oil cocos Nu CNuCe oil Cocos nuifera Cocos nu Cenenen Flower extract** H Rosa Sinensss nuca Coconut oil Cocos Nuifera Cocos Nuifera(CococoCoco(coCocoCococo* cocos Nua** coconut Oillaria Az Az Az Az Neem Seed oil Melia Az Az Zaratarum Usitatissimum Usitatissimoum Usitatis), Hisros Rosa Sinen l lL Linum Usitatisimum seed Oil* Cocos nue) Linum usitatiss’na Co Coco Coco* cocos Nua) Coconut (Cocoo), Cocos) Coco Coco Nucifera Coco ) cocosn * Cocos nuc, Hibiss** Coconut oil Coco Coco Nuc cc + Flax) Coco rosa)* +nem) oil Coco Nuc Ca (Coco), Hiscs Sinen rosa Sinenssssn COn Cocosn-sinen rosa flower Extract) cocos Nuc Oil** + Coco Nuc Coconut), Hib Floren rosa Flor extract+l +Me +M) Coco Nu ros ross+Linus Nucfera Coconut+, Hii = Cocon+l+L m +n Flower flower Extract+N Neem) Neem +Linusus S=Linus Usitatis + Linum =co Coconut+ Cocon FLa Florens=Co Coco = Coconut*… and Lun = Flax=l+… Linum usitatis = Lin

SheaMoisture Silk Protein Neem Oil and naturally-derived Flaxseed Oil is combined to deliver long-term hold, control and shine without drying out your hair. This styling gel offers long lasting hold control without ever drying it out!

8. OGX Curl Defining Oil

Tighten up your tendrils with this air dry, heat-free styling cream designed to tighten and define curls while leaving them smelling irresistibly tropical. Formulated with coconut oil and shea butter, this creamy mixture helps your curls remain smooth, soft, supple and frizz free. For optimal results, apply to damp (towel dried) hair before air drying for soft hydrated spirals that are easy to define while being frizz free and frizz-free; perfect for all curly textures and types; paraben free; safe for color treated hair; Made in USA