About 6 or 7 months ago one of my friends kept enthusiastically insisting that I try Carol’s Daughter Hair Milk. I really didn’t need to because I have had great results with Carol’s Daughter Healthy Hair Butter, but I eventually bought a 4oz bottle for $12 at Macy’s just to try it.
Unlike the Butter which comes in a jar because it’s so thick and creamy, the Hair Milk comes in a bottle and has a thinner more milky consistency. It contains water, glycine, soybean oil, sweet almond oil, emulsifying wax, cocoa seed butter, shea butter, apricot kernel oil, beeswax, essential oils of peppermint, lemongrass, rosemary, jojoba seed oil and other ingredients.
The Carol’s Daughter Hair Milk is a 2008 Best of Sephora Award Winner for Best Natural Wonder. The label claims that it’s a light solution for adding shine and frizz-free definition to natural curls. Lisa Price, who is actually Carol’s daughter and the creator of the company claims on the website that “Hair Milk is my go-to product for beautiful, shiny curls that NEVER lets me down.”
I tried the Milk later on that evening on my dry strands. It smells oily but it also has a lemony and floral scent to it at the same time, which I don’t like since it reminds of me of glass cleaner. While the Milk is oily it has a light texture that does absorb into the scalp and hair quickly so it doesn’t make it feel weighed down or greasy.
But I found the Carol’s Daughter Hair Milk to be a little too light for me. My tresses are super thick and they have a kinky and coarse texture that can get frizzy quite easily. So I need products that give it tons of moisture. While the Milk did add some moisture and reduced frizz I would’ve needed to use a lot of it on my dry hair for it to really make a huge difference, and it gave me no shine at all.
Since that time I’ve used it to do twists or other styles while my strands were soaking wet. I found that I had better results with the milk then. It took away most of the frizz and it helped to moisturize and define my small ringlets. My styles would look and feel good for about two days, but after that my hair would begin to feel very dry again.
In The End…
The 4oz bottle of Carol’s Daughter Hair Milk that I bought months ago is still quite full because I don’t use it that often. The Healthy Hair Butter is my go-to Carol’s Daughter product when I’m styling my hair wet because it really moisturizes my situation and it keeps it that way for 4 or 5 days, sometimes longer.
But the Butter is extremely thick and it takes awhile to get the product to fully absorb into dry strands. So I will probably begin using the Milk more to help maintain my hairstyles and moisture levels throughout the week since it absorbs so fast and is easy to apply.
Carol’s Daughter Milk is a quick way to add moisture and softness for coarser textures like myself. But I definitely think its best suited for curly girls with finer and silkier textures, and maybe even for those who relax their hair because it moisturizes while still being light.
It reminds me of a healthier and more moisturizing version of Luster’s Light Pink Oil Lotion. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars for coarse textures.
