Hyaluronic Acid Benefits for Curly Hair

Hyaluronic acid offers a wealth of benefits to the hair, although it's an ingredient often associated with skincare. If you’ve ever used hyaluronic acid for your skin, you will already be aware of the softening and hydrating properties that it offers. Likewise, using hyaluronic acid on your hair will help to lock in moisture, minimise frizz, and help add volume to lank, limp locks. Curious to learn more about hyaluronic acid benefits for curly hair?  Keep reading.

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What is Hyaluronic Acid?

Benefits of Hyaluronic Acid for Hair

Best Hyaluronic Acid Products for Curly Hair

How to Add Hyaluronic Acid to Your Curly Hair Routine

What is Hyaluronic Acid?

You’ve probably come across the ingredient hyaluronic acid on many occasions, but what is it exactly? In a nutshell, hyaluronic acid is also known as hyaluronan or hyaluronate, and it’s a gooey, sticky molecule that our bodies produce naturally. 

It can be found in our joints, eyes, and skin - essentially, all of the parts where our bodies require lubrication. Hyaluronic acid extracts water from the atmosphere so it functions as a humectant that plumps and adds moisture where needed. This is why hyaluronic acid is such a beneficial ingredient for curly hair products. 

 

This curl-friendly ingredient gained prominence in the cosmetics industry in the early 2000’s coinciding with the ascent of invasive procedures like dermal fillers and injectables. While collagen was initially favoured by surgeons, it was eventually superseded by hyaluronic acid, and has been a mainstay in the cosmetics industry ever since. In recent years we’ve seen hyaluronic acid become even more omnipresent and lauded within the skincare sector,  and consumers have come to know and trust the ingredient for its transformative powers. Now hyaluronic acid has been established as an excellent hydrator, the trickle down effect is the ingredient can now be found in haircare products.

 

Benefits of Hyaluronic Acid for Hair

 

Hyaluronic acid provides hair with an abundance of benefits. 

1. Frizz control - Due to its watery consistency, it bathes each strand in unbridled hydration that helps minimise frizz. 
2. Moisturisation-
3. Multi-use - Hyaluronic acid can be used in a variety of hair care products.

We’ve now established that hyaluronic acid can throw dry, damaged and lifeless hair a lifeline by helping to plump strands with thirst quenching hydration. 

In this article we will delve deeper into the benefits of adding hyaluronic acid into your haircare regimen. Trust us, your curls will love you for it.  

Best Hyaluronic Acid Products for Curly Hair

As most with curly hair can attest, some of the most common hair problems that occur when you wear your curls out on a regular basis include dryness, frizz hair and dehydration. We’ll now take a closer look at products from Curlsmith containing hyaluronic acid, listing all the benefits and qualities that each product contains, so you can add them to your curly hair routine.

 

Curlsmith’s Shake & Shine Bi-Phase Oil with Hyaluronic Acid

Applying a quality curly hair oil to your hair routine is paramount for keeping strands soft, shiny and pliable. Oils have been an integral part of hair grooming for thousands of years and is still considered very much a sacred hair care ritual that is particularly revered within South Asian communities. 

The benefits of applying oils to the hair are bountiful and include softening the hair, helping to seal the cuticle, detangling knots and adding shine to dry and dull hair.

Curlsmith’s new Shake + Shine bi-phase oil/water system provides all the incredible hair smoothing benefits of a hair oil, bolstered by the additional goodness of hyaluronic acid, seaweed,  pea peptide, and aloe vera to penetrate deeply into each hair fibre. 

This amazing bi-phase oil provides hair with up to 41% in moisturisation and reduces frizz for up to 71% for up to 24 hours. Due to its lightweight blend, Shake + Shine is suited to all curl types . Simply mist throughout your tresses, or apply to the palm of your hands and smooth throughout the hair to reactivate your curls so they are nourished, defined and bouncy on non-wash days.

 

Post-Wash Calming Conditioner

Using a conditioner as part of your healthy hair routine is crucial for us curly girls. There are so many reasons why you should use a conditioner every wash day. To name a few, it helps to keep cuticles smooth, detangles knots, and replenishes thirsty hair. 

Curlsmith Post-Wash Calming Conditioner is the perfect wash-day companion. Its rich, creamy texture is packed with nourishing ingredients to give your hair a moisture reboot.

 

Hydro Creme Soothing Mask

Integrating deep conditioners in your hair routine is a crucial step in maintaining healthy-looking, vibrant curls. With our busy, over-scheduled lifestyles, it’s often easy to overlook this step, but your hair will benefit so much from spending those extra minutes applying a deep conditioner after shampooing your hair. Deep conditioners are typically more densely textured than traditional conditioners, and contain intensive emollients that overhaul dry and thirsty hair, helping restore it to healthy-looking locks. 

One such example is the Hydro Creme Soothing Mask - a hard-working, deep conditioner that helps revive your tresses. With its rich textured formula, and blend of curl loving ingredients, including the benefits of hyaluronic acid, that melts into your strands delivering weightless moisture. This conditioner is compatible with all curl types, and even straight hair. It’s suitable for all hair porosities, too.

Weightless Air Dry Cream

Another hyaluronic-infused product on offer from Curlsmith is Weightless Air Dry Cream. It’s one of the best leave-in conditioners for curly hair. A leave-in conditioner is a must-have product for curls. Its main function is to keep hair hydrated and smooth, and help lock in all the moisture that tends to dissipate during the day. Weightless Air Dry Cream is particularly unique because it’s perfect for hydrating all curls types and textures, even fine hair. With a slippery consistency, it absorbs into the hair instantly, leaving strands soft and nourished.

Hydro Style Flexi Jelly

Curly hair gels have come such a long way since the days of old, with Curlsmith leading the charge with innovative formulas. Depending on your personal preference, Curlsmith has a number of gels to suit all curl types and textures. 

Our Hydro Style Flexi Jelly is a medium hold formula created to enhance and define. Whereas styling gels have traditionally been viewed as quite drying, with this curl friendly gel, curls are left feeling soft and bouncy. With its light, silky consistency it locks onto each strand without weighing the hair down or causing product build-up.

It’s worth noting, however, that with application of this gel it will create a light gel cast while drying, which may result in a temporary crunchy feel. This is quite common with curly hair gels. But fear not, once your curls have dried, simply scrunch out the gel cast and leave your curls feeling light and bouncy.

 

How to Add Hyaluronic Acid to Your Curly Hair Routine

Now you’re up to scratch on how beneficial hyaluronic acid is to all curl types, here is a step-by-step routine you can adapt to effectively incorporate the ingredient into your hair routine to achieve juicy, hydrated curls.

1. After shampooing your curls with your favourite Curlsmith shampoo, apply a hydrating conditioner like Post Wash Calming Conditioner and smooth throughout the hair. Alternatively once a week to replenish dry and thirsty curls, apply a deep conditioner like Hydro Creme Soothing Mask to provide an intensive treatment. This treatment serves as a thirst quencher to counteract brittleness.
2. Once complete, apply Weightless Air Dry Cream to your hair, ensuring that each strand is coated with the lightweight cream. This will help to infuse the hair with even more hydration as well as smooth the cuticle.
3. Now your hair is treated and prepped, it's now primed and ready for styling. Apply Hydro Style Flexi Jelly to your curls, using your preferred styling method to enhance and define your curls.
4. To refresh your curls between wash days, apply the Curlsmith Shake + Shine refreshing mist to help minimise frizz and provide your curls with softness and shine.

Caring for Your Hair with Curlsmith

Adding hyaluronic acid into your haircare routine will help provide your curls with lasting moisture, which is essential for helping maintain healthy-looking, nourished curls. Naturally, your curl routine will vary depending on what your hair needs. It’s for this reason why it’s so important to curate the right routine for your curl type which can be achieved by answering a few questions on the Curlsmith curl quiz.

All Curlsmith products are formulated for wavy, curly and coily hair types. Products are vegan, cruelty-free, and made without parabens, silicones, and sulphates in order to be kind to curly textured hair.