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By Chelsea Hall
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Ask a naturalista to give you a rundown of their holy grailhair care products,and chances are you'll receive a laundry list of recommendations that promise to a) moisturize the hair, b) offer amazing slip for seamless detangling, c) prevent breakage, or d) do all of the above. But the biggest takeaway when it comes to caring for curly, coiled, and kinky hair textures: Make sure your regimen consists of high-quality moisturizers. From a heavy-duty curl cream to a lightweight hydrating spray, get ready to welcome the soft, shiny, manageable hair you deserve. Ahead, 13 moisturizers to keep yournatural hairhydrated for the long haul.
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tgin Butter Cream Daily Moisturizer
This Reparative Moisturizing Cream
Breath life back into your strands with this shea butter and vitamin E butter cream. Whether you're looking to refresh your hair or set your twist-out style in place, your curls will instantly feel soft, fluffy, and with an abundance of shineupon application.
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Cantu Coconut Curling Cream
Coconut Curling Cream
Behold:a triple threat for $6. This coconut curling cream is a naturalista's dream and works to moisturize, define, and strengthen the hair.
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Mielle Organics Avocado Moisturizing Hair Milk
This Hydrating Hair Milk
Getting your hands on a product that effectively hydrates curly, coily, and kinky textures without weighing the hair down is no easy feat. Thankfully, this avocado and lavender-enriched hair milk will keep strands moisturized from root to tip without leaving behind unwanted buildup.
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Ouidad Curl Quencher Hydrafusion Intense Curl Cream
This Softening Curl Cream
This curl quencher was designed with tight curl textures in mind. Formulated withintensely hydrating ingredients like milk thistle, sweet almond oil, and hydrolyzed silk protein to strengthen curls andstave off frizz, this moisturizingcream will leave behindperfectly defined, pillow-soft curls.
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Carol's Daughter Black Vanilla Moisture and Shine Leave-In Conditioner
This Strengthening Leave-In Spray
Detangling sessions just got a tad easier with this moisture-boosting leave-in conditioner.Infused with wheat protein and vitamin B5, this spray helps to awaken dry and dull strands for a shiny andmanageable mane.
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Luster's Pink Moisturizer Hair Lotion Original
This Moisturizing Hair Lotion
If you have naturally curly, coily, or kinky textured hair, chances are you'll recognize this hydrating hero from your childhood. Formulated with pro-vitamin B5 and vitamin E, this lotion penetrates the hair shaft torevive dry anddamaged strands.
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As I Am Double Butter Cream
This Daily Moisturizing Cream
Enriched with emollients like shea and cocoabutters plus castor andjojoba oils, this daily moisturizer will create the buttery soft curls of your dreams.
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Curls Blueberry Bliss Reparative Leave In Conditioner
This Ultra-Hydrating Detangler
The beauty in this moisture-rich leave-in treatment is its multitasking capabilities. Enriched with coconut milk and blueberry extract, thisconditioner softens, hydrates, andserves as the perfect curl detangler.Plus, the invigorating scent leaves your curls smelling divine.
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Giovanni Direct Leave-In Treatment Conditioner
This Lightweight Leave-In
ICYMI: Hydration is the key to length retention. This leave-in conditioning treatment is jam packed with healing ingredients like vitamin E, sunflower seed oil, and pro-vitamin B5 and works overtime to renew brittle, damaged hair.
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Pattern Beauty Styling Cream
This Moisturizing Curl Styler
There's nothing like a thick buttercream to lock in long-lasting hydration.Keep your twist-outs and wash-and-gos moisturized, yet defined with this delicious styling cream that's infused withshea butter and sweet almond oil.
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Sunday II Sunday Revive Me Daily Moisturizing Spray
This Curl Revitalizing Spray
Here's the perfect daily refresher for your coils. Sunday II Sunday's Revive Me Daily Moisturizing Spray works to fight frizz and resurrect limp and dehydrated curls.Plus, tea tree extract helps torelievean itchyscalp.
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EDEN BodyWorks Coconut Shea Leave-In Conditioner
This Moisture Sealing Leave-In
Formulated with coconut, avocado, jojobaoils, andshea butter, this naturalconditioning treatment hydrates and seals in moisture, allwhile delivering frizz-free curl definition.
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Oyin Handmade Hair Dew Daily Quenching Hair Lotion
This Nourishing Leave-In Lotion
Enrichedwith castor oil and olive squalane, this hydrating hair lotion is the perfect leave-in following awash day for keeping strandssoft and supple.
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Chelsea Hall
Chelsea Hall is the Assistant Fashion and Beauty Editor at Marie Claire, where she covers celebrity style, fashion trends, skincare, makeup and anything else tied into the world of fashion and beauty
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