Best coconut free products

peachpup

Hi everyone! I am hoping you guys could recommend some of your favorite COCONUT-FREE products for me to take a look at? After a long period of trial and error, it's finally been established that coconut products are TERRIBLE for my biracial 3c hair. It has completely dried out my hair and has turned into the incredibly frustrating high porosity mess that it is today!! Unfortunately most of the rest of the world finds coconut products to be beneficial for their curls, so I can honestly spend hours scouring the hair product aisles at my local beauty shops and Ulta for products that don't use coconut. And the catcher is that I just recently found out that coconut oil = caprylic/capric triglycerides, so who knows how many other words I don't know for coconut oil?

Also maybe if someone has an explanation why my hair hates coconut products so much? I'm trying to be more mindful of listening to it and figuring out why we put the things on it that we do (wheats, proteins, cones, etc.) So I know I'm in the right place! :toothy4:

bomega

Hi,

Welcome to nc.com. My summer-time HG product the Alaffia Revitalizing Shampoo and Condition are coconut free as are the Honey Nourishing and Neem Recovery shamp/condish. The Honey Nourishing ones have oat protein if that is something your high porosity hair might like. The Wavy-Curly Defining Gel is also coconut oil free but it looks like their other products have coconut oil. Alaffia is such a great company I feel like their products are at least worth a try. They are often available at places like Whole Foods so you could try at no risk.

WavyKfromNJ

I am in the same boat. I also don't like coconut in my hair (or should I say my hair does not like coconut in it). I haven't gone so far as checking for caprylic/capric triglycerides.

This is a good resource for Science + Hair with a post on hair & coconut
Science-y Hair Blog: Coconut Oil Makes My Hair Stiff! (Or rough, brittle, or breaking)

I find that if the coconut is further down the ingredient list it doesn't bother me as much.

Reservechic

peachpup wrote: »

Hi everyone! I am hoping you guys could recommend some of your favorite COCONUT-FREE products for me to take a look at? After a long period of trial and error, it's finally been established that coconut products are TERRIBLE for my biracial 3c hair. It has completely dried out my hair and has turned into the incredibly frustrating high porosity mess that it is today!! Unfortunately most of the rest of the world finds coconut products to be beneficial for their curls, so I can honestly spend hours scouring the hair product aisles at my local beauty shops and Ulta for products that don't use coconut. And the catcher is that I just recently found out that coconut oil = caprylic/capric triglycerides, so who knows how many other words I don't know for coconut oil?

Also maybe if someone has an explanation why my hair hates coconut products so much? I'm trying to be more mindful of listening to it and figuring out why we put the things on it that we do (wheats, proteins, cones, etc.) So I know I'm in the right place! :toothy4:

Hello!:)

Some people's hair reacts very well to certain ingredients, while other people's hair don't. All of our hair is genetically different, which is why, individual results with products and even pure oils definitely varies. And, that does include coconut oil for sure.

In regards to coconut oil free products, the only three that I personally know of are Kinky Curly's Knot Today, Kinky-Curly's Curling Custard and Darcy's Botanical's Sweet Cocoa Bean Curl Moisturizing Whip. In regards to how these products will work for you, i personally can't make any guarantees, just recommendations. I am a mixed race curly, I have a naturally loose curl pattern (I do not curltype), my hair is naturally dry, fine textured, low density, and is of high porosity. To me, they are some of the best curly hair products on the market, while for others they may not be. However, because I have had nothing but very positive results with these products, this is why I am recommending them to you to try, just to see how they may possibly react with your hair.

I also do have positive results with products that have coconut oil in them as well (not all products that have coconut oil, only those that happen to agree with my own individual hair). Oh, any negative effects that you've received from coconut oil having been used on your hair, those are just temporary, not long-lasting, and can easily be reversed.

Best of luck to you with your hair journey!:thumright:

RedHeadQueen

So happy about this thread. I spent a long time in the stores looking at labels. I am allergic to Coconut and every hair company loves to slide it in their products like its a miracle maker or something. Plus coconut it just a protein and I don't need it.

Therese1

Products I use that are coconut free are Curl Junkie Beauticurls leave-in, Curl Junkie Curl Assurance Smoothing Daily Conditioner, Eden BodyWorks Peppermint Tea Tree conditioner (I find this too conditioning for my fine hair; coarse hair might like it), Sevi Blue Yarrow Hair Gel (this makes my hair limp due to the aloe in it, but I loved it before they changed the formula), Jessicurl Confident Coils, Jessicurl Gelebration Spray, and Bumble and Bumble Bb. Gel. I think that almost all the Intelligent Nutrients products are coconut free.

I didn't realize that so many of my products are coconut free. I do find that when I put coconut oil straight on my hair, my hair gets crispy. I am also protein sensitive. I wonder if the products I use work for me because they don't have coconut. Hmm.