Toddler Boy Hairstyle | Top 3 Favourite Kids Curly Hair Products | What Products We Hate!

Foreign Hi Kham fam welcome back and welcome to keeping up with Kham if you are new here. Thank you so much for tuning in to our Channel. Thank you for clicking on clicking on this video if you're returning subby. Thank you guys so much for coming back. I do want to say this is a little bit of a different setup. We are not doing a braided style today, but I will be talking to you about our favorite products, um things that we don't like and just how we go about taking care of kamari's hair um. You guys have asked me Product recommendations and questions and stuff like that. So I figured why not make a video um to help everybody out all right, so we're gon na get started. I'M gon na give you guys my top three shampoos. I don't really like to use too many products. I don't like to go back and forth between things, so I don't have a lot of favorites um. So it's going to be kind of easy to. Let you guys know what I do like um in regards to shampoos. My top three are the shea moisture mango and carrot: kids, shampoo, the Cantu care for kids, shampoo and Mane and teal, so the shea moisture shampoo I have been using since he was a baby. I would say, since he had hair, but he was born with hair. So realistically that doesn't work, but since I started actually doing his hair here, um that's when I started using. The shampoo was the first brand that I went to as it is marketed for kids hair um. They do have a baby line, but I didn't do the baby. I found the baby line, or at least what we have available. Um was more like like two in one three in one like bath body, hair type of stuff and I'd rather have things separate, not all together um, so I started with the shea moisture now I will tell you guys it is to this day he will be Five, soon to this day, my favorite shampoo, I hope they don't change the formula. I hope nothing. You know messes it up knock on wood at this point, but it is definitely my go-to. It smells great, I'm not a smells type of person. I don't like for things to be really fragrancy um, because I feel like that. Just means more chemicals in there and that's what we're trying to stay away for with their hair um with our hair as well, but with kids hair, especially um. So it has a great smell, but the smell doesn't stay when you use it like it's just for, while you're shampooing and then once you're done and you're like um styling, your hair, you don't still smell it, so that, for me, is really important um. It has great slip I like I, can put the smallest amount on there and just it works through the hair. So well, there's no Tangles, there's no friction, it doesn't feel dry or squeaky. Like you know, like you know, like you know the squeaky clean feeling, I hate that that means at that point you've already Stripped Away all the um you've, Stripped Away all the proteins and all the the things that you actually need in the hair yeah we're trying To clean it, but we're not trying to destroy it, so this shampoo definitely has the perfect slip. I actually end up doing a lot of um detangling with this shampoo because it allows for that it doesn't break the hair, doesn't pull on the hair um. So I do a lot of wide tooth and finger detangling so that when we get to the conditioner part um, it's a lot easier now I do suggest detangling before you start washing their hair, but a lot of the time his hair has been in a ponytail For like two three days going to school and it's it's thick when he goes to school, with a ponytail, I'm not combing or brushing through that every day, absolutely not! We are getting up in the morning. I'M spritzing it with some water laying it down with some product if need be and brushing it up so taking it out from a ponytail from two three days where it's just been brushed for those two three days to detangle before washing for me doesn't make sense. Um, I don't want to want to run the risk of breaking pulling shedding all that stuff, so I detangle in the water um. The best bet is to detangle with conditioner, but because this shampoo works so well. I do start my detangling with the shampoo and then I do the rest with the conditioner honestly. I have no cons when it comes to this kit. This shampoo, except except for the fact that it's a little costly when he was young. I think it was about 11 12.99 for the bottle. It'S now like 16, depending on where you go and the bottles aren't that big. So that's the thing if the bottles were bigger and you were getting more product understandable, but with the amount of product that you get and the amount of hair and thickness that he has it, it doesn't let well the conditioner. I would say in that size doesn't last that long, but the shampoo lasts a little bit longer because you're not using as much shampoo to do what you need to do with it um. So the shampoo can last for a while. The conditioner is like two days but um yeah, so that's the only con that I have in regards to that um. But overall, if you can afford it, if you can find it, that's the shampoo that I suggest so now. The second would be the Cantu care for kids shampoo um. This was just like our go-to, our backup, if we couldn't find the shea moisture or if I just didn't - want to spend that much money at that time. I would go to this. It was originally 5.99 um Canadian. It'S now gone up to, I think 6.99, but that's not really that much of a difference. Um it comes in a fairly. It comes in a fairly good sized bottle. Um. The thing is this: one's skinnier, the shea moisture is fatter. So I don't know if they're actually the the same amount of products um, I assume they probably would be, but um again, this one lasts long as well. The slip is the slip, is decent um there's no strong smell. I don't really detangle with this one. This one I leave more to detangle with the conditioner in um, but I have no cons. It'S it works. Well, it's a great budget friendly shampoo. This line is kind of Hit or Miss um. Some products work really well some products. Don'T some people love this entire line of products and some, like us, only use the shampoo and conditioner? I haven't found any other products with them that I really enjoy that work. Wellness, hair um, so the shampoo is fine. The conditioner is fine um, but I'm staying away from other stuff. Okay. So next we have the mane and tail products now mane and tail. They have different like sub sections to it. Like you can get the curly, I believe, there's a curly one. You can get like a curly one. You can get um hydrating moisture boost like there's different, you know Avenues to it, but I just go with the regular one um. This is also especially well. Sometimes I use two I'll use. The shea moisture, the Cantu and I'll use the maiden tail. I would use the mane and tail first because it is a clarifying shampoo, so if you've had a styling for a long time, um that means you've had product buildup in there or, if you've done like a week of ponytails and you've, just been putting like your Gel or whatever, on top of it um and going you're going to want to use a clarifying shampoo at some point. Because you want to get all of that dirt out, especially with low porosity hair, because it's already hard for the moisture and the products penetrate the hair shaft. So if we have a whole bunch of residue on it, nothing's gon na happen um. But the thing is with clarifying shampoos, they are drying. So that's why I use it one round of the shampoo and I use it before whatever regular shampoo, I'm using so I'll use, man and tail do one great wash and then I'll do one or two with the shea moisture one or two with the Cantu. So this is something good to keep in your cupboard just in case you're not going to go through it as quickly. The bottle is definitely bigger and it lasts longer because, like I said, I'm not using it on a regular basis um, but it is something that's really good to have all right so on to conditioners. We have the matching pair. Essentially, we have the shea moisture mango and carrot kids conditioner. This again love this product. I can't like Rave enough about it. The only thing it is expensive um, so I don't. I didn't use it too often, also because here it was readily available for a while, and then I wasn't seeing the conditioner a lot. I was seeing more like the leave-in conditioner and the shampoo, so I was able to get the shampoo for a longer amount of time than I was able to get the conditioner. So that's why I even started using the Cantu line, because I was like I'd rather have the same shampoo and conditioner from the same brand. But now I'm like listen whatever I can find whenever I can get my hands on whatever costs less so I oftentimes do use the um shea moisture shampoo and then I use the Cantu conditioner um, but for the shea moisture conditioner it works. Well again, it has a smell, but it's not too strong and it doesn't like sit in the hair um. It has great slip. It works wonderful for me, detangling with the conditioner in um. It'S not too thick. That'S something that I really hate because again that just sits on the hair, it's not penetrating it! It'S not helping it's not staying in the hair and then the hair is just going to dry out in a day or two. So this one is my number one. Absolute favorite, the only con is that it is a little bit on the expensive side good and it's not as available for us in Canada as it should be. I think so number two will be the Cantu care for kids, um, moisturizing or nourishing conditioner um. Again. It'S great, it works. Well, it's cost effective um the size isn't the best I mean I wish there was more especially because conditioners you go through conditioners, so quickly so easily when they have thick hair when they have curly hair when they have a lot of hair. Um, it's so easy to just finish a bottle in like one or two wash days um so, but with the Cantu one. What I will say I found um as his hair textures have started to change in the back. I found the back is a little bit more tight compared to the front where it's a looser. Like three C, let's say type of texture um the Cantu conditioner is thick. So what I do is, I actually add water to it. I'Ve taken, I take like the top bit out and put it in like a sandwich bag, a plastic, not a plastic bag, yeah like a sandwich, bag, um and then I'll add the water I'll shake it up and I'll use that and then once I'm done using It for that day, I'll put the one in the sandwich bag inside because we're not wasting we're, not throwing away we're not losing any of this. It costs a lot to begin with. We need all our products um, so yeah I do have water to it. I just find that it helps with the consistency. It helps to again penetrate that hair shaft and actually do what it's supposed to do, instead of just sitting on the hair washing out and then the hair is dry in a day or two. Now. Last but not least, we have the Aussie curly hair conditioner. They do also have a shampoo, but I'm not really a fan of the Aussie line. Um. I just find that it's kind of geared more towards a three, a two type of texture, not really like our coarser textures, so I've really steered clear of them. I find that it's just kind of um drying of a product, but I got to a point where I needed to wash his hair one day. I think he had like. I don't know he had something that he had to go to and I had to do his hair. The hair store is a lot farther away than Walmart. I was like, hopefully, one with something because they do have like the black product aisle. We just don't have that much selection and it's really nothing for kids, it's more so for adults, and I don't want to use adult products. So when I saw this I was like. Oh it's a conditioner. It can't be that bad. Let'S see what we can do because I still had shampoo, like I said the shampoo last, the conditioner, not so much um, so I got I picked this up and it actually works really really well, I will say I love how the hair feels when it has A conditioner on I find that it's not thick, It Coats the hair properly. It works through. Well, it rinses out. Well it doesn't, it does leave um a scent on the hair. I will say that you will definitely know that you use this conditioner like two three days down the line you're like oh yeah, this thing um, but I also feel like it's drying after a couple days like I use it today, I'm like oh. This is great. Like I, you know, do the LCL method and like go about my business and then like I'll, take it out and like go to braid his hair. Go to I'm like the hair feels kind of dry ish. I don't know if the word that I want to use is dry, but it feels different. So I don't like how it feels a couple days after using it um. I have enlisted a leave-in conditioner that I'm trying now to see. If, maybe that's what the issue is in combating it with that, but it's not dry to the point where it's like breaking or it's damaging the hair, but it is just a different feel to the hair when I use that so, if you're looking for something different, If you do have more of a three to a two type of texture that you're working with, I would say that this Aussie curly hair conditioner Works um, and I think it's about probably like six bucks Canadian. So it's not it's not as expensive as the shea moisture. Okay, so leave-ins I've just started using leave-ins. I'Ve never really found a use for them um because I usually do the lco or the LLC method after doing the hair, and I find that that keeps the moisture in but as I did start feeling the hair feeling a little bit different after using that conditioner. I said you know what no harm, no foul, let's try it out. So I picked up the um Dippity Doo girls with curls leave-in conditioner again from Walmart um, so I will probably have a look into getting something from the hair store. I will say I tried one before and I'll, let you guys know about it. A little bit later in the video, I did try a different leave-in conditioner and I was like, and no so I don't know, but this one it went onto the hair. Well it it's not thick, there's no real build up, it doesn't leave the hair sticky, it doesn't leave your hands, sticky, that's important. I hate that feeling um, I just don't know if it really did much um after using it. I did his hair into. I think single braids yeah, so I haven't taken that style out yet so I'm like, I don't know how well it uh it has worked, and I also want to try it out um when his hair, like isn't even in a protective style when it's just like In ponytails or yeah ponytails buns, whatever not a bun yeah ponytail, when it did ponytails for a week, I want to see um how it helps. Keep that moisture in while he's going day to day. Um and just kind of you know living with the hair out. So I will have more of an update on that one. If you guys have used it. Let me know if you actually enjoy it. I don't know if it's a Canadian brand and it may only be available here um, but if you guys have got your hands on it. Let me know if you like it or if you have any questions about it. So since I haven't really been immersed in the leave-in conditioner World um, I don't have many to recommend, but I have heard only good things about the the Camille Rose: Naturals, honey, hydrate leave-in. I think it's also like a two-step system. I think there's like two products. You'Re supposed to use I've been wanting to try it for a while. It is a little bit on this pesticide um and when I went to go look for it, I couldn't find it at my store at that time. So that's why I had to just get something else: um, but once this is done or once I really want to actually take leave-in conditioners seriously, I will be trying that and I'll. Let you guys know how I how I like that um honey is one of the best things you can use in hair um, but you have to be careful about how you go about it. You don't want to just you know, take the honey out of your pantry and just put it in their hair, which can't it's not. You know that bad, but you also want to have other things. You want to have your oils and stuff in there. So it's actually helping and benefiting the hair um. So this is formulated. You know um is formulated, especially for hair, so you don't have to really do the work as if you were doing like a DIY hair mask or anything like that. Um also, I find that honey is something that works for all hair types, all porosity um. You don't really have to worry like if you're like um protein, deficient or whatever, like you, can put that on and not really have to worry about negative side effects to your hair. So I do want to try it. I haven't got my hands on it. Yet um, but when I do, I will let you guys know if you have tried it because, like I said, I've heard nothing but good things. So let me know in the comments: if you've tried it, if you have somebody that you know, that's tried it and how you guys feel about it, so that I can have a little bit of an idea of what I'm getting into when I purchase it myself. Oh next, it's got nothing for you, guys it's a detangler. I don't use a leave-in, detangler or curl detangler or anything um. We don't typically detangle without washing so um there's not much. I can recommend there's not much. I'Ve really looked into because, like I said, I don't use it, I don't really have a need for it um it. My go-to is just to make sure that the hair is hydrated and then I detangle with a wide tooth comb or my fingers in the in the wash with either the shampoo and or conditioner. That'S my go-to saves you a couple dollars honestly, I feel like. Sometimes these products are just a money grab and you really don't even need them um, but I mean I do have a friend. She uses a detangler in her daughter's hair, so it works or there's people who find that it's beneficial um for us. I just found no use all right so moisturizers and creams. So my number one is the shea moisture, kids, coconut and hibiscus curling buttercream. That is a mouthful, absolute mouthful, um and again this is another product that I discovered when he was small and I was trying to figure out what to put in his hair. His hair type at that point was like all three: it was like: 3A 3B. It'S now more, like 3B 3c4a um, he is now you know for almost five compared to like one and a half two when I first started using these products, but this product still works really well again. My uh problem with it is, it is a small container and it is a high price tag. So if you have a lot of hair, it's not as beneficial to be buying these every couple days, um, but I do like how the product works in his hair. I just haven't been using it lately. Second, I was using this really um really often recently it's the Oh. I thought I deleted everything. It is the meal moisture, RX, Hawaiian, Ginger, moisturizing, hair butter. I don't know why these are all like 60 names just to say one thing and I'm pretty sure I'm saying me all wrong mile meal. I don't know, I'm sorry. I use the product, it's not like it was sent to me or I'm sponsored. This is me buying things out of my own pocket, so I don't know how to pronounce it. If y'all want to. Let me know down there, like you know the, what is it the FNAF phonetically correct? I think it's called like you know you spell it out like in the dictionary please by all means, because I don't know what I'm saying half the time I will say I did enjoy that product. It is a bigger container, it is an adult product. It is not for kids hair um, so I took a chance because I was just like what am I gon na use. Am I gon na use a lot of the things that were left for me to choose from were like can't two and stuff, and I don't um, there's just so many options in the US and there's not that many options here and I don't want to pay For something through Amazon or through the company's website, and I'm paying duties and taxes and Border money and all of that stuff, and then I get it and then it just doesn't work for us and I've just wasted. Not only my pocket money from across the street and my gas, I've also wasted a whole bunch of other fees and service taxes, and all of that, so when I do go across the border, I will be getting my hands on some things from like Target and The hair stores over there I just haven't, had the chance to go yet um. I wanted to go over like the Christmas season, but it was tactic, and that didn't happen and we weren't here for Christmas um, so that hasn't happened yet, but soon soon soon um. We will get over there and I will get some new products, so if you guys would, I would love for you guys to. Let me know what products I should be looking for what products I should get where I should go to get them, because I'm definitely coming back with like half of a hair store in the back of the car, because I need all the products that can work And at that point too, if I do find things after going over the border that work for me, I can order them online and know that okay, this works, and this is what I want so we'll see how that goes, the meal product it worked. Well, it wasn't as thick as the um shea moisture, which I like I like things to be a little bit more water-based when it comes when it comes to his hair. The only thing I don't like water-based would be gels. Those need to be a Pomade um but yeah when it's more water-based, it's easier for it to attach itself to his hair, um penetrate the shaft and actually do the job that it's supposed to do. So I appreciate that from that product um It's just sometimes I find that when I use something over and over it, then just stops really being effective. So I was getting great results for it from for a while and then - and this was the same container, it wasn't even like. Oh, I got a different container and then I stopped liking it. This was the same container, had a little bit left in there because, like I said it lasts a while, and I was just like, I need something else and there's something else. I ended up going back to a product. We had got the just for me. Curl piece defining curling coil cream. I promise you there is never just a moisturizer conditioner hair better, like it's 60 words. Anyways I'd actually got this. When we went on vacation to St Lucia for his birthday, I had not taken any hair products with me. I don't know why um and I ended up needing something so I was like. Let me just go to the store and see what we have there and I found this. It was like 18.99 EC, which works out to be probably almost 10 bucks, Canadian um and I used it while I was down there and I didn't have any issues with it. But when I came back up, I was like no I'm going back to his normal products and after using the meow for a while, I was like No - And I like I have this so why go spend money? Let me just see how it actually works on a regular basis, and I love it um. It is something that I keep going back to. I keep using um the curl, but just for me is like you know, like the just for me: perm type of um brand, I'm not perming his hair um, but and that's why I was kind of like like this is really targeted for like girls hair, even Though there's no real difference between girls and boys hair, because hair is hair um, but because it is a brand that does you like it makes perm. I was like I don't know about this, but it works really. Well, it's lightweight um. It has a smell to it, but it's not too strong. I think I used it when I used the Aussie curl conditioner, so I feel like those were both in his hair at the same time and both leaving the scent. It'S not a bad smell um, but you can definitely take the smell and you know like: okay yeah this product was used, okay, so grease or hair food. I use these. I don't use them super frequently, and I don't not that I don't use them super frequently. I just don't overdo it like. I don't want a whole greased up head of hair because you're again blocking the hair and the shaft from allowing product to get in there from allowing the hair to breathe, to sweat, um and allowing for the hair to grow and retain its length. And things like that, so I do use it, but I just don't use it in excess. So my go-to, my number one, if you guys watch our videos. You know it is the kuza 100 uh, 100 Indian hemp, hair and scalp treatment. So this is very natural. It'S very like using the resources to make our products type of thing, so it has pieces of the things that they use in there. So it does leave like little pieces of. I don't want to say like wood, I just don't know what exactly it is that they're putting in there. I really should, but whatever it is, it leaves those little pieces in the hair so be mindful of that. It'S not hard to take out literally just and it comes out um, but I do like to leave it in like the first day that I put it in and then like the next day when we're getting ready to go to school or wherever we're going. I just take them out just for appearances um, but I'm just like you know what they were put in there for a reason. Let that sit in the hair, let it penetrate for a little bit and then I'll get rid of it after okay. Number two on the last on my list, is the cream of nature Argan Oil day and night hair and scalp conditioner um. I that's not a kid's product um. Neither of these are kids products. Actually I don't even know if they make kids crazy, either way um it works. It'S meh um. If I can't find my kuza that's what I use um. I have no issues with it. The price point is great um. There aren't any pieces left behind because it's not like the kooza, which is 100. You know Karen blah blah blah um, but this works. If you're looking for something that you can easily find in the hair store from a brand that you're super familiar with um, then you can give this a shot um. I just prefer to put more natural, less chemically made products in his hair. So that's why I go with the kuza um hair grease, okay, last but not least, we're gon na be doing the gels or like the braiding grip, glazes and stuff like that um. It'S a little controversial because I've been back and forth with this one product, but it definitely is number one on my list because it's what I use every day at this point um it is the shine and jam it is the yellow bottle. It is a six hold, I feel like it wasn't always a six hold um I feel like they said it was more and I was always like this is not that strong of a hold. It'S really not that strong of a hold, but I like that. I like the fact that I can put it in his hair and by the end of the day, it's kind of like worn itself out. I don't want something that is going to harden over the day. Get the hair, crunchy crusty leave a white residue. I don't like that because, and that just means now I have to wash his hair and I wasn't - I probably wasn't planning on watching his hair, so products like that will just make it harder for me to take care of his hair um. So I rather the shine and jam, which is a moderately light, hold um in regards to like ponytails and stuff. If I put it in his hair and he goes to school with a ponytail when he gets home, it's a little. You know a little frizzy fuzzy, but it's not terrible, but it's not gon na hold the whole day. Mind you. This is a four-year-old who's in school who's, probably playing head first and everything um, but yeah. That'S how I feel about that in terms of like ponytails updos, look, downs and stuff like that um, but for braiding it does the job. I don't really have that much complaints, because in the moment, as I'm using it, it slicks down the hair. It makes it easier for me to hold it. It keeps it in place um and then, once the style is done and over the day or two, it releases that Max hold, but the hair is still in place and it's still tidy and it works wonderful and it also helps too like, if you add it To the ends of hair, while you're braiding, when you take it out, it's kind of like like a styling mousse like it gives a lot of definition to the hair, it doesn't break the hair, it doesn't dry out the hair, so I don't really have any complaints. I know I kind of get on on my case about not having like a kid based gel, but this works. It works great. I did originally my number one back in the day. If you're watching the old videos was the oh, I can't it was the curly kids, oh wow, curly, kids and karma's world have teamed up. That'S cute um. We actually really love Commerce. World show in our household. So that's nice to see um a product that you're familiar with, also being used in a show that depicts children that look like your own. You know, okay found it. So it's the curly kids mix, texture, hair care, Frizz Control Paste. That was my number one. I did no hairstyle without it and then at one point the formula completely changed. I don't know why they lost me. At that point I was I was trying I was trying to hold on, but it was just like no. This is not working um, so I stopped using that. I just I don't like the residue that is left with it. It does not hold anything um but that maybe they changed it back. I don't know, but when it did originally change, and I saw the difference that it was having and the difference that it was when I was using it in his hair, I kind of was just like you know what I'm done with this one um. So you can give that a try, that's something that I've used in the past. But at this point it is not on our list. I have heard of some other um products, especially um. I have one subscriber She's, always telling me about the um shea moisture. I think it's like braiding gel something like that or grip something I cannot find it to save my life. Trust me. I'Ve looked I've looked but um, it's just not here, so that is something that I'm definitely going to be looking for. When I go over to the states um to see, if I like it, I feel like I saw a picture of it and I'm not too sure if it is really Pomade based or if it's more like water-based, anything that has like the Eco Styler type of Texture type of formula to it I kind of stay away from because all it does is curls his hair right back up. It'S just like wetting it in the shower. It does nothing to help me um braid. Maybe it might be okay, um for like putting his hair in a ponytail, but for something for braiding water-based is not the way to go for us, not at all all right, so oil oil is really important. You don't want to overdo oil. You don't want anything that is too thick, but when you wash their hair, you do want to do um your lco or loc method. That way, you can get all the moisture and hydration in the hair you're gon na lock it into the hair so that whether you're doing a protective style or you're leaving their hair out you're gon na have the hair feeling feeling good and not damaging over the Week or two that you have the hair in its natural state, so my number one always been and probably will always be, would be olive oil. I used olive oil in the beginning solely because he had cradle cap and um. I needed something to help with that, and it worked wonderfully I mean cradle. Cap is not going to go away. You can help it be lessened throughout the day and throughout it's it's time with your child um, but you're not going to be able, like I'm just gon na, put some olive oil and like wash it out brush it out, and it's going to go away, not Gon na happen um, so since I was using olive oil and it was working so well, I was like I'm going to continue using olive oil. My mom had told me about using olive oil for cradle cap, and it was literally just like regular extra virgin olive oil that was like in my cupboard that I was using um, so I was like well. This is great. I'M already buying oil to cook with, so I didn't really have to spend much on like little bottles of oil at the hair store, um, but either one that you want to use any type of olive oil product yeah, it'll work. My next thing would be jbco Jamaican black, castor oil. Now the thing with castor oil, it is thick okay, Thicker Than a Snicker. It is thick, so you have to dilute it. You have to water it down with something, so I suggest any of your other favorite oil, so you could put some olive oil in there or whatever that you kind of go to in regards to oils, but I wouldn't use jbco by itself. I would definitely add something to the Jamaican black, castor oil, or you can add it to your um, your moisturizers or your creams, as you're, using it and kind of just get a two in one that way: um, but yeah, castor oil by itself. Um. There are also the options of having like the lavender one, because the casserole has a really um distinct smell to it. And it's not it's not a nice smell. It'S not real aromatic um. So if you want to add other types of oils, and also for like to help with fragrance, you can do that or they even sell the Jamaican black castor oil with lavender. That'S what we're currently using um, I kind of just prefer the regular, castor oil. I don't really care too much for the lavender one. I just only had the option of lavender. That was all that was on the Shelf um. So when this one is done, I'm gon na go back to the regular normal, just plain scented, castor oil. And lastly, I would go with peppermint oil um. This is something that's really great to mix with the castor oil that I find so um. My go-to mix for castor oil would be peppermint oil and then I would have the olive oil being used by itself, but any mixture Works. Peppermint oil is really great for low porosity hair, which is what Kumari has um. So we add that into our routine as much as we can, they do come in like small little bottles. I think they're like 2.99, or something like that. But again, oil isn't going to be used as quickly as something else you're, not like dousing, their hair with oil every day that would be really bad um. So you are going to get a bit of longevity out of that 299 bottle now in terms of treatments. For the hair, you can do a deep conditioning treatment. I have no problems with them. For me, I just don't have the time um, because you're gon na wash the hair. It already takes me six years in a day to get through shampoo and conditioner with his hair um. To then add these products in, let it sit usually let it sit under heat. I'M not really that big of a heat person, so is it really going to be beneficial if I'm not doing it with heat um and then once it's done and it started to get hard and dried out and like this is the next thing his hair is Low porosity, his hair dries so quickly, so by the time I've let it sit and I've let these products do what they're supposed to do. I now have to go put it back in the water and start it all over again and and then you got a shampoo condition, wash it out and then get to Sterling. I'M gon na tell you guys. I don't have the most time in the world, and that is a process wash day already takes two days, because I'm washing conditioning on the first day I'm doing the lco or LC loc method, plaiting it and then I'm doing the style the next day. That'S a lot it's a lot to have to then add in, and I know that you're not doing deep conditioning treatments and hot oil treatments every week, but it's a lot at any given time. So if you have the time by all means, I highly suggest that you can add them into your schedule into your routine. But if you don't don't feel too bad because we don't and his hair is generally healthy for hot oil treatments you're going to get whatever oils you prefer, you can add, you can mix them. You can use just one whatever you're going to add them into the hair after you've washed out your shampoo and washed out your conditioner and then you're going to let it sit on the hair you're going to put a shower cap or a plastic bag. Whatever works for you and then you're going to add heat, so you can either like put the blow dryer underneath you can have one of those blow. Dryer cap sets that you can get at like the hair store Amazon. You can sit them under a dryer or, if you don't have anything like that, you just have like a blow dryer. You can just blow dry the hair. You do that for like 5 10 up to 20 30 minutes, whatever works best for you, whatever you think will be beneficial for their hair um and then you wash it out. I would do another round of conditioner just in case and then um. That'S that those you can add into your routine, I would say, maybe like, depending on how many times you wash their hair with us generally, I would try and wash kamari's hair every week or two um the way that his hair gets so dry so easily, and So quickly and the fact that his hair is low porosity, which means it dries out even quicker if his hair is not in a braided style, we need to wash it um. I'Ve also been thinking about um, adding like a spray like not like a like a braid spray type of thing, like a a leave-in. No, I will there's one that I use when I braid my hair I'll show you guys a picture of it um and it helps a lot with braid with braided hair and keeping the moisture and stuff like that. So I want to find something that I can kind of use like that when his hair is braided just to keep adding in the moisture um I mean, even though I don't use that when I take his hair out from his Styles, his hair is not dry. There'S no problem with it, but when I then leave it for like a day or two until we get to wash day. That'S when I start to see that the hair is, you know getting dry and stuff like that, so anything that you can do to add. The moisture and keep that moisture in, even while it's in a protective style, that's a plus um and obviously you know keeping the hair well maintained. While it's not in a productive day. What I suggest, if you, if they have their hair out like if you're just like you, know what this week is not the week to be braided um, that's fine, because I have those weeks myself. What I do, though, um either before they go to bed or while they're home playing, I put their hair into, I put his hair in two braids or I will just break the ends quickly before bed um and then take it out. Put it up in a bun, whatever one it's beneficial, because you're keeping the ends protected, that is the most important part, the roots of the hair, important, but the ends of the hair. That'S where the breakage can occur, that's when all the drying out can occur. So whatever you do as long as you keep the ends protected, especially in like the winter right now, and you have their hair out in a bun instead of having it in a ponytail, put it in an actual bun and wrap the ends so that the ends Are wrapped up and then you put the elastic that's a way to protect their ends, um so yeah. So just put a couple braids in either two like two cornrows going straight back or like two to four just big braids. He looks like Pippi Longstocking a lot of the time when we're home um just so his hair um doesn't get too dry too matted um. Anything like that. I hope you guys are sticking with me we're almost at the end um. I know I've talked about the things, but I do recommend the things that I do like. I'M gon na give you guys a couple of brands or products that I've just kind of not had the best time with, and I've stayed away from so number one would be Aunt Jackie's not today that I heard about all over the Internet everyone's using it. Oh, I love this. No, even my friend she uses it in her daughter it it's not. It doesn't work for us. I will say her. Daughter'S hair texture is a little bit different than kamari's, it's more of like a four, a I'm, not gon na, say 4B, but it's definitely a four type texture, so it all just I guess, depends, but it it was not was not on our list. I I probably still have the bottle somewhere like I used it once and I was just like no, this is not it so it's sitting there um next would be, as I am curly jelly and I think the other one was a um moisturizing mask hair mask. I don't like it. The mask was way too thick even for my hair, because I was like you know. Let me just try this in my hair after it was just no, it was not working and the Curling Jelly it didn't do anything um. It didn't really activate the curl. Well, I'm not gon na say that it it it's not thick, so it does get into the hair um. But I just didn't see much of a difference between any other products that I was using um. It was a little drying and what else was there with it yeah? I couldn't use it for much else like when I was trying to like put his hair in one after the hair was just like in a different. I know there's just a different feel to it, so it was not a Vibe for me I was not liking it, as I am, is not I'm not gon na say it's off the list completely. There is one thing from as I am that I do want to try. There'S like a kids or baby line. I'M gon na see how I feel about those products, but for now no the whole tgin line all of it top to bottom, not for us um. I don't know if it's his porosity or his texture or what it is, but none of the products have worked in this hair. None of the products do anything for us, except for provide, build up and just thickness on the hair. So it's a no-go for tgin um, the Cantu care for kids curl refresher. Again, I'm not the biggest fan of the Cantu line that has to do with anything other than the shampoo or conditioner um. The curl refresher did nothing, I'm better off, adding water to his hair with the curl refresher, there's other products and chemicals and things in it for for me to spray it with that, and for it to do nothing I'll just stick to water in a bottle. I promise you guys the best way to hydrate your kids hair during the week, whether it's in a style or it's out especially the morning when you're, just like um put in a ponytail um or just trying to reset their curls water cheap, because it's free super Accessible because it's in your house, all you need to do is just get a really good spray bottle. Again, don't even overthink it Dollar Store Dollar Tree, get a spray bottle. Add your water, some people too, they add water and like their favorite oil in there, that didn't really do much for me um, but feel free to try it out. Um, but yeah. Definitely a really great spray bottle and some water, and it will help you through anything now the meal, moisture, RX, Hawaiian, Ginger, moisturizing, leave-in, conditioner, um, thick, really thick just thick, just sat on the hair and left like a residue like a sticky kind of feel to It um I'm just not a fan of leave-in conditioners and that one definitely showed me why, so for us that was a no and coconut oil. Like I'm sorry, this might be an unpopular opinion. It might ruffle some feathers, put coconut oil in our household unnecessary. I don't use coconut oil, add and I don't use coconut oil and kamori coconut oil for us dries our hair like dry, brittle gross feeling to the hair um. I think coconut oil has really been overhyped in the natural hair community um. It worked for a bunch of people and everyone kind of just ran with it. You have to pay attention to your kids, hair type, their porosity um, their texture, everything that goes into their hair. You have to pay attention and don't just use what works for other people like this video, I'm letting you guys know what works for us, because you guys want to know, but also there's a lot of people. That said, oh our hair types, our son's hair types are the same. You know they're similar, that's great, so if they're, similar and you're looking for something. This is an Avenue that you can go down, but they don't necessarily work for everybody. So I will say that coconut oil may work, for you definitely look into coconut oil, see if it's beneficial for you, your hair, your child's hair for us it did nothing. We take coconut oil off the shelf um. I try to limit the products with coconut oil. Sometimes a product may not be that bad on the hair if it has coconut oil and that's because the other ingredients in there are overpowering and overweighing that so keep an eye out, see what has worked and what hasn't worked for you. You go into your product drawer and see. Oh you know what, like this didn't work for some reason. You read the products. You see coconut oil. That may be why all right guys so that wraps up this video. I hope it was helpful. I hope it was educational for you guys. I hope you guys had a little pen and paper to take some notes. If there is anything that I did not touch on, please let me know um you can. Let us know in the comments you can send us a DM on Instagram at keeping up with Cam um. We always respond. We always love to hear from you guys so and if you enjoyed this video, please give us a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe. If you have not already - and please share this video with your friends and family because the more you know, the more you grow and I'll see in the next video bye,