All About Olive Oil | for Type 4 Natural Hair

Olive oil is good for so much more than making salad dressing and cooking your favorite vegetables or cuts of meat. The same characteristics that make olive oil one of the healthiest oils to consume make it exceptionally good for nurturing your precious kinks, coils and curls to ultimate hair health.

Olives are the fruit of the olive tree which was originally found in the Mediterranean thousands of years ago. According to Wikipedia, the tree was cultivated and grown around the globe throughout history and has been used by citizens of notable ancient civilizations like ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece. The use of olive oil is even recorded in the Bible.

Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition Fortifying Shampoo for Type 4 Naturals | Product Review

Finding a good shampoo that won’t leave coarse, type 4, afro textured hair hard, dry and brittle can seem like an overwhelmingly daunting task.

Those of us with this unique hair texture need a shampoo that cleanses our hair of gels, butters, oils and any other product we use to create our magnificent hair styles while leaving just enough oil deposited on our hair to keep it from feeling the way scorched grass looks at the height of a summer heat wave.

Garnier Fructis Triple Nutrition Fortifying Shampoo comes very close to being the solution for every type 4 natural’s shampoo dilemma. The product is designed for dry and damaged hair and claims to provide “stronger, smoother, healthier hair” as a result of the three nourishing oils it contains (hence the name triple nutrition).

Can’t Find Natural Hair Products in Your Area | Try These Alternatives

In a perfect world we would be able to buy the hair products that work best for our hair at the nearest store for less than what it takes to feed a family of four. 

Finding all natural, organic, natural hair products can be a difficult task.

The hard truth is that natural hair care products are given half a shelf of space or less in many retail stores and that many of the best products start at $10.

YouTube Pick: Creamy Whipped Shea Butter by KT313

One click on KT313's YouTube video and I was inside her kitchen preparing to make a light and fluffy basic Shea butter cream. I almost felt like I was visiting the home of a relative.

Her warm, down to earth approach to presenting her recipe makes her YouTube video one of my favorites.

I was near giving up on the use of Shea butter because I found it difficult to use.