Revisiting the past...

Ok, I've been slacking a little bit lately but I'm here now! Better late than...ok, I'll stop. :)

Ya’ll, yesterday I went into my old storage case, (you know, the case where you store all of the results of your product-junkie-isms? lol) and I discovered an old friend! Smooth and Shine Curl Activator Gel! Yep, and I decided to try it again to remember why I’d put it away to start with. So, after deep conditioning my hair with a mixture of Aubrey Organics (AO) Honeysuckle Rose, AO GPB, Jamaican black castor oil, and a little Giovanni Smooth as Silk Deep Moisture conditioners, I mixed a little Smooth and Shine Curl Activator Gel with some castor oil and YA’LL!!! That combination worked wonders on my hair! I mean, curls popping everywhere, even in the “hard-headed” crown area of my hair! And it feels so full and soft! ummmm!

Now, even "back then" when I would find something that worked, I would buy a couple/few bottles and stock it away, and with this product, it was the same. I opened one jar and discovered I had a second jar in my stash box. I want to get a couple more jars but I’m hearing the original formula has been DISCONTINUED! The company does have a replacement but the ingredients aren’t exactly the same and some were added that are supposedly not so good for our hair. I haven’t tried the new formula but other naturals are saying the new batch isn’t as good as the original version…dang.

Anywho, just in case you’re able to find some of the discontinued stock, here’s what you’ll be looking for:



Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Glycerin, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hyaluronic Acid, Panthenol, Oleth 20, Carbomer, Triethanolamine, Benzophenone 4, Disodium EDTA, DMDM Hydantoin, Fragrance, Ext Violet 2


Here’s what the “new” formula’s jar look like (*See the aloe plant on the side?):



Ingredients: Aqua (water), Clycerin, Aloe Varvadensis Leaf Extract, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Panthenol, Carbomer, Tri-Ethanolamine, Hyaluronic Acid, Oleth-20, Disodium Edta, Benxophenone-4, DMDM Hydantoin, Parfum (fragrance), Linalook, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, CI 60730 (ext. violet 2).

If you decide to try the new batch, please let me know what you think of it! Bye!