Alright With Me: Tresseme Naturals Conditioner

If I had a list titled Things I Am Bad At By Arbitrary Internet Standards, having natural hair would be an item on that list.  It would probably be right underneath blogging.

I don't really obsess that much about my hair.  I mean sure, when it's been so long between detanglings that I have to cut chunks out I get a little anxious and berate myself.  Sure I watch youtube videos and check CurlyNikki religiously.  Sure I browse natural hair products at Target.  All of those things are passive though, and they very rarely translate into action.  I should have known this kind of laziness would happen as soon as my hair was long enough to snatch into a respectable ponytail.  Although to be all the way real, I had already downgraded my styling standards to intentionality.  (Basically I ask myself "Does my hair look like I meant it to look this way?"  If the answer is "Good enough" I consider myself good to go)

Despite my general lassitude in regard to my hair, I have made some recent intriguing discoveries.

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Tresseme Naturals is a pretty popular conditioner and with good reason.  I bought some as a splurge when I ran out of the even cheaper V05 stuff I have been using to detangle.  (I used to prefer Kinky Curly Knot Today but it's $11.00 and I use a lot to detangle-even diluting it with water in a spray bottle doesn't make it stretch sufficiently.  I could get a bottle of Blackberry Tea V05 conditioner for like .67 cents.  Of course, I used half a bottle at a time to detangle so volume wise, it wasn't that great either.)

I can work with this conditoner though.  It comes in a bigger bottle and it only took maybe 1/6 of it to do the job for my whole head.  I was actually able to wash and detangle my hair in the shower in about 45 minutes.  That's unheard of.  The point that sold me though is that I left some of this conditioner in and it actually had enough hold and weight for three decent hair days in a row.  Color me impressed.

I tried it as a leave in again with a little EcoStyler Gel on top and had an absolutely banging twist out -or about twenty minutes because it was raining cats and dogs.  Another list titled Things I No Longer Care About Now That My Hair is Natural would have rain and umbrellas on it.

Let's Try . . . Larabar Jocolat!

It looks like it should be delicious.  I’m always a sucker for chocolate in non-shiny packaging. 

It is, however, healthy.  Healthy chocolate is always hit or miss with me.  Mostly miss. 

The Product

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Ingredients

Gotta love these ingredients though: Dates, Almonds, Walnuts, Cocoa Powder, Unsweetened Chocloate, and Cashews-all organic.

Review

The first bite was kind of meh.  I think that has more to do with the fact that the bar looks like a decadently fudgey brownie . . . and it really isn’t.  On second bite, the complexity of the flavor really starts to come through.  It’s dark chocolate with hints of crunchy, nutty, sweetness.  It’s really kind of a cool combination.

Final Thoughts

I think if I had already started the refined sugar purge that Wes is on, I would be madly in love.  Since I still have a taste for the supersweet stuff, I am maintaining that Larabar Jocolat and I are just friends.  (It will be interesting to see how my tastes change as I wean myself off of sugar.)