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24 Best Curl Creams for Curly Hair (for Every Texture and Porosity)

Flat-lay featured image for a curly hair product roundup titled “24 Best Curl Creams for Curly Hair (for Every Texture and Porosity).” Seven curl creams are displayed on neutral stone pedestals against a soft beige background, including products from Innersense, Bouclème, Rizos Curls, AG Care, Miche, Fenty Hair, and The Doux. The image highlights a range of lightweight and rich curl creams selected for waves, curls, coils, fine hair, thick hair, low-porosity hair, and high-porosity hair.

Curl cream is the product I reach for when I want soft, defined curls without the crunch of a gel. It is also the aisle where I have wasted the most money, grabbing jar after jar that either did nothing or left my hair limp and greasy. What I learned the slow way is that […]

Best Curl Creams for Low Porosity Hair (That Won’t Weigh It Down)

A woman smoothing curl cream through her wet, defined curls using the praying-hands method, with the title "Best Curl Creams for Low Porosity Hair (That Won't Weigh It Down)."

I have washed, scrunched, and crossed my fingers over three heads of low porosity curls, my two sons and my daughter. The result used to be the same every time: curls that looked amazing wet, then dried flat, dull, and oddly greasy at the roots. I kept reaching for richer, more moisturizing creams, certain the […]