When I went natural 3 years ago now, I bought a mammoth amount of natural hair products to try out which would work best for me. Now, in 2020, I can say that I’ve finally found my natural hair staples to include in my regular hair routine. Here are my top 9 natural hair staples in 2020. Most of these are black-owned businesses.
EZ Detangler
The EZ Detangler has become a natural hair trend in recent months. After purchasing one, I totally understand the hype! The flexible feel of the brush works incredibly well on wet or damp thick textured hair due to the separated brush bristles. A black-owned business, the tool is designed to suit curly and coily hair textures.
You can tell there is a major consideration for these hair types. The detangler also comes with a placeholder you can choose to attach at the back to keep bristles in place whilst you comb or remove them so they are fully flexible.
Root2Tip Honey Rain-Juice Leave-In Conditioner
The lovely Root2Tip Honey Rain Juice works a charm to loosed your curls to detangle. A little goes a long way with this product. Root2Tip is a natural hair care line that uses at least 98% natural ingredients.
The founder, Sal Wynter, is incredibly passionate about black hair care and being conscious of what we put in our hair. For me, purchasing from haircare brands that know about black hair textures is important, as there is more understanding about what works best for our hair type.
Root2Tip is 100% one of these brands and their Honey Rain Juice, in particular, is a more than worthy member of my natural hair staples. I often use it as a regular moisturiser, as well as a leave-in conditioner.
Mist Spray Water Bottle
Water is one of the best moisturisers for natural hair and I think this mist spray bottle is the best way to distribute the water across your hair. One press of the spray’s nozzle can last about 4 seconds, making it easier to distribute across your hair as opposed to a usual spray bottle that lasts like half a second.
This is an essential mention of my natural hair staples to include water and this mist spray bottle makes it easy to distribute this across your hair.
Root2Tip Anti-breakage Creme
Another favourite of mine from Root2Tip, is their Anti-breakage cremé. I find it works well with the Honey-Rain Juice to lock in the moisture of the hair. It acts as a good sealant to lock in all the moisture you’ve applied to your hair.
Primal Beauty Black Soap Shampoo
Founded by Jamaican-born Sandra Brown-Pinnock, Primal Beauty is a black-owned business with a store location in Lewisham, South East London. Their Black Soap shampoo is sulfate-free and holds an easy slip consistency that is easy to lavish across your hair, with enough soap to fuse into your hair strands.
Primal Beauty Conditioner
After I shampoo, I use the intense detangling conditioner from the Primal Beauty range. This also maintains a simple to lavish consistency.
Satin/Silk Pillowcase or Headscarf
With black hair textures, cotton causes friction against the hair and drains out the moisture. So, satin or silk headscarf or pillowcases are essential to maintain moisture in your hair whilst sleeping, or even napping!
If you have a satin or silk pillowcase, you may not have to have a headscarf. But if you don’t have a satin/silk pillowcase, you’ll definitely need a headscarf of this material to protect your tresses.
Purely Natural By Anastasia Hair Tools
Purely Natural By Anastasia’s Sandalwood Hair Toolset is the best natural made quality hair tools I’ve come across. The long-handled comb and brush are the main tools I use for this set. However, it also contains a barber comb, rat-tail comb, wide-tooth comb, and an afro pick. As soon as you open the toolset, you smell the beautiful natural fragrance of the sandalwood tools. The material of the combs is much less snagless compared to plastic or metal hair tools.
The hair tools are also available to buy individually. To maintain the wood you can rub natural oils into the hair tools to ensure they remain effective.
Snagless Hair Bands
My signature hairstyle when I was first transitioning as a natural, was afro buns and thanks to YouTuber, Fusion of Cultures, I discovered snagless hairbands.
This really helped the issue I had of my hair always getting tangled in hairbands with metal plaits. Snagless hairbands, and particularly stretchy ones with thick strength, are a much better alternative as they are strong enough to hold afro hair textures. You can purchase some snagless hairbands here or your local beauty supply store may also sell them.
I hope this list of my natural hair staples has helped you. If you are looking for protective hairstyles, check out this post and for a 101 natural hair tip guide, check this out.
