Komaza Califia Conditioner

This conditioner is for tighter coiled or coarse hair.

Pros:

- Smells lovely - kind of like caramel or butterscotch

- Has a decent amount of slip

- Extremely moisturizing - leaves hair very soft

- Can be used as a mini DT as well, leaving it in your hair for 15 mins or so

- Gives good curl enhancement

Cons:

- Pretty rich conditioner - so finer curlies, or hair that gets weighed down easily might find this too much for them

- Gave me a lot of surface frizz

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This is a lovely range which I really wanted to love. Sadly, I think it is just slightly too much for my hair. I noticed that my tight 3c curls underneath loves this stuff, and become frizz free ringlets, but my canopy, which has a much looser curl, got frizz and felt over-coated. Its a shame because the scent is lovely and it gives a lovely dose of moisture to my curls. I think for me, personally, its one I won’t repurchase, but for those with coarse and tighter curls, I would urge you to try out this line.

For my hair this gets a 6/10

Overall, however, I would give this an 8/10. I think Komaza products are high quality and they are spot on in recommending this conditioner at 3c and above hair types

Komaza Califia Leave-in Conditioner

A thick, moisturizing leave-in conditioner

Pros:

- Again, the scent from this range is yummy!

- Lots of slip, easy to detangle with

- Extremely moisturizing

- Produced decent enough clumping or curls

Cons:

- The consistency of this is very very runny which I don’t like. Its far too easy to loose a load (so apply a little at a time)

- Seems to soak straight into hair which means its harder to tell if you have missed any areas

- Left my hair frizz and over-coated

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Not much to say about this one. I liked it much less then the Califia conditioner. I think my results from this are for the same reason as the general conditioner - its too rich for my hair canopy (again, the underneath liked it better). I get a lot of frizz when I use these conditioners and my hair feels product-y. Again, I would recommend trying this for coarse curlies with tighter curls, but I also don’t think the leave-in is on par with the Califia conditioner.

This one gets a 6/10 from me overall. I really disliked the consistency of this one.

Curliesue - 09 March 2011 03:45 PM

I knoooow lol.  Its not even just hair stuff im like this with either…you wanna see how many shoes I own

Anyway, I got DB curling jelly (full size), the Komaza coconut sample set, Hairveda Shikakai oil (sample), hairveda moist 24/7 (sample), Hairveda whipped gelly (sample).  I had to stop myself before I got carried away lol. I hope the Hairveda stuff is CG - I was devastated when I found out about the whipped ends having mineral oil

@ Curliesue, ive just checked my bottle unless im mistaking the whipped end by hairveda doesn’t have any mineral oil - unless it’s under some code name of something, can you shed some light on which one below is mineral oil

Ingredients: water glycerin, ricinus communis (castor) oil, sweet almond, butyros. parkii (shea butter) ceteryl alcohol, steryl alcohol, sunflower oil, allantoin, isopropryl palmitate, emulsifying wax

gonna google the indegredients too to see what i can find

Adjoa - 10 March 2011 02:03 PM

Curliesue - 09 March 2011 03:45 PM

I knoooow lol.  Its not even just hair stuff im like this with either…you wanna see how many shoes I own

Anyway, I got DB curling jelly (full size), the Komaza coconut sample set, Hairveda Shikakai oil (sample), hairveda moist 24/7 (sample), Hairveda whipped gelly (sample).  I had to stop myself before I got carried away lol. I hope the Hairveda stuff is CG - I was devastated when I found out about the whipped ends having mineral oil

@ Curliesue, ive just checked my bottle unless im mistaking the whipped end by hairveda doesn’t have any mineral oil - unless it’s under some code name of something, can you shed some light on which one below is mineral oil

Ingredients: water glycerin, ricinus communis (castor) oil, sweet almond, butyros. parkii (shea butter) ceteryl alcohol, steryl alcohol, sunflower oil, allantoin, isopropryl palmitate, emulsifying wax

gonna google the indegredients too to see what i can find

Adjoa,

Sorry I got it mixed up Its actually castor oil, and CT (or somebody else - pretty sure it was CT tho) says this needs to be low poo’d out.  I have only used it once and it doesnt seem to have caused any problems.  Sorry for confusing you.

No mineral oil from what i could find so youre safe if you want to try it…and so am I - had an invested interest as im also tryna do a CG routine

Curliesue - 10 March 2011 02:06 PM

Adjoa - 10 March 2011 02:03 PM

Curliesue - 09 March 2011 03:45 PM

I knoooow lol.  Its not even just hair stuff im like this with either…you wanna see how many shoes I own

Anyway, I got DB curling jelly (full size), the Komaza coconut sample set, Hairveda Shikakai oil (sample), hairveda moist 24/7 (sample), Hairveda whipped gelly (sample).  I had to stop myself before I got carried away lol. I hope the Hairveda stuff is CG - I was devastated when I found out about the whipped ends having mineral oil

@ Curliesue, ive just checked my bottle unless im mistaking the whipped end by hairveda doesn’t have any mineral oil - unless it’s under some code name of something, can you shed some light on which one below is mineral oil

Ingredients: water glycerin, ricinus communis (castor) oil, sweet almond, butyros. parkii (shea butter) ceteryl alcohol, steryl alcohol, sunflower oil, allantoin, isopropryl palmitate, emulsifying wax

gonna google the indegredients too to see what i can find

Adjoa,

Sorry I got it mixed up Its actually castor oil, and CT (or somebody else - pretty sure it was CT tho) says this needs to be low poo’d out.  I have only used it once and it doesnt seem to have caused any problems.  Sorry for confusing you.

no worries i get confused all the time too lol. I find it hard to get my head round it sometimes but im getting there.

As i tend to use a lot of oils in my hair i tend to lo poo about once a week/once every ten days so I can see why this product may not be great for strict CGers

I think I’ll purchase the conditioner, I hear rave reviews.

I have the califa moisturiser and i love it. For both winter & spring, this is a bad-a** moisturiser!
Ive never had fullness or softness with a moisturiser and it’s amazing. It’s my HG moisturiser and I will never part with it!

Efuru, I love you hair in you avi, how did you do it like that?