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Just note: "This one holds in moisture, so more confined styles like flat-twists or bantu knots can take a lot longer to dry," she says. You may want to consider hitting your protective style with a blow-dryer to help speed up the setting process, too.

This Not Your Mother's Curl Talk Cream lets you put your best curls forward by giving hair a dose of moisture while adding shine and controlling frizz. Made for all curl types, the defining cream comes infused with a rice curl complex made from a blend of rice, keratin amino acids, and enzymes. These ingredients work together to smooth, strengthen, and enhance moisture retention.

Not only does Curls Dynasty's Vanilla Cream Custard add definition, but it also stretches out tighter curls that are prone to shrinkage. It's a medium-hold formula, so it will keep your style in place once it's set — without any added crunchiness. It rehydrates dried-out hair without adding extra weight, so as moisture goes in, it's actually plumping up curls to make them more voluminous.

Another Best of Beauty winner, Cake Beauty's The Curl Friend Defining Curl Cream uses a trio of butters and oils — soybean oil, avocado oil, and shea butter — to give tighter, denser curls definition and moisture without any sticky or thick buildup. It banishes frizz and blocks out humidity without messing with the moisture curls need to thrive. In addition to hydrating coconut oil, there's also papaya butter, plumeria extract, and glycerin for extra softness and moisture. Use it to both detangle and style your crown.

The trio of oils in Rucker Roots GTC Curly Cream — derived from ginger, turnip root, and carrots — each nourishes hair in different ways. Ginger stimulates the scalp and strengthens weak strands, turnip adds shine and elasticity, and carrot helps reduce frizz and protects against heat damage.

There's also strengthening biotin and classic hydrators, like shea butter and coconut oil, to moisturize and prevent breakage. Moisture-absorbing glycerin, protein-enriched quinoa, and nourishing shea butter all work together to deeply hydrate hair that has a harder time retaining moisture.

The result is more definition, minus any caking or flaking. Smooth the argan oil-based Ogx Curling Perfection Hydrating Cream onto damp hair and work it through from root to ends. The light cream will slick flyaways and add shine.

Let your hair air-dry and enjoy all the bounce and smoothness it leaves behind. Sweet almond oil and shea butter soften and moisturize, while allantoin helps with elasticity so that curls don't break as easily. The affordable texture-builder and curl-smoother has what the brand calls a "moisture amplifying blend," which includes ingredients like honey, jojoba, and aloe to do all the things curls love: moisturize, define, and smooth frizz.

The goal of the Emerge collection is to offer simple ingredients with straightforward results — and you'll get that with The Works Buttercream. Pequi oil and fair-trade shea butter are the main ingredients that soften, hydrate, and smooth curly hair without any of the usual not-so-good suspects like sulfates, parabens, silicones, mineral oil, or petrolatum.

The flaxseed oil gives hair a natural hold so that you can skip crunchy and sticky gels. But just because it's got a speedy drying time doesn't mean it won't keep your hair hydrated until your next wash — the almond and avocado oils in this cream take care of just that.

With the rebirth of this iconic textured hair brand comes the Afro Sheen Crown Defining Curl Cream, which combines omega-3 fatty acid-enriched flaxseed oil and nourishing coconut oil with lauric acid to penetrate dry hair. Shea butter seals it all in. Ouidad's Advanced Climate Control Featherlight Styling Cream proves that you don't need a ton of weight to keep frizz and flyaways in place — even on the most humid of days.

Curls are left separated and defined using a trio of humectants meadowfoam seed, olive, and soybean. As a bonus, sericin, a protein derived from silk, seals the cuticle to lock in moisture and block out humidity. Type 4 hair tends to be the driest of all the textures. Coconut and babassu oils, along with moisture-attracting honey, give parched hair the moisture it's missing.

For best results, apply the cream in sections to dripping wet hair then diffuse or air-dry. Cantu Shea Butter Coconut Curling Cream's buttery whip hydrates dry, coarse curls — yet it's surprisingly lightweight. Section off damp hair and rake a dollop through each before air- or blow-drying as usual. Apply to damp hair and watch your curls spiral as you slather it on.

Wet them a bit with water, smooth some of this on, and watch them coil back into formation. The mango oil and bamboo milk blend stretch out your curls and coils, have substantial hold, and make your hair feel incredibly soft. Vitamins A and E keep the scalp moisturized, while amino acids protect hair from stress and damage. As for styling, sacha inchi oil is what assists with curl definition and frizz-blocking.

Allure's Jihan Forbes tried the cream on a pretty balmy day and says, "those curls held on for dear life without leaving my hair feeling too dry or too greasy and weighed down with product.

Meanwhile, the tomato fruit ferment and mollis leaf extract help your curls tap into their full potential, leaving you with a head full of spiraled glory. Not only does SheaMoisture's Coconut and Hibiscus Curl Enhancing Smoothie smell like a deliciously fruity, coconut-based cocktail, but it will also get your curls all the way together, giving them definition that holds but doesn't feel stiff or crunchy.

It's no wonder this drugstore wonder is a holy-grail product for so many — it won an Allure Readers' Choice Award to boot. The sweet-smelling shea butter formula is ideal for tight curl patterns, as it defines and elongates coils instead of making them spring into shorter ringlets.

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