Review: Essential CC Oil & Night Care Milk

I've always experienced dry hair. While many of you may know that heat styling, perming, and dyeing - all that chemicals - can damage and dry out your hair, you may not be aware that our environmental factors and our everyday habits can affect the health of our hair.

This review today is about a bottle of golden magic and another bottle of white goodness.

Left: Essential CC Oil. Right: Essential Night Care Milk

So what does CC stand for? Cuticle Oil. Yes, our hair has cuticles too. And we're often exposed to things that causes damaged cuticles like below.

Extracted from: Garuda Hair

The golden bottle of magic I was talking about targets the 5 main stresses we face almost daily with Cuticle Coat Protection that leaves hair smooth & tangle free all day. It also contains Hair Supplement Oil, which is similar to hair’s natural oil.

1. Blow-drying process of blow-drying removes moisture from the hair, both outside and inside the hair - leaving hair dry, brittle and susceptible for further damage 
2. Combing through wet hair causes great hair damage as the hair follicle is at is most fragile state. Likewise, the friction caused by coming through dry hair can form hair knots which makes hair prone to unnecessary breakage.
3. Split Ends are often caused when the ends of your hair are the oldest and driest parts. When the protective hair cuticle is destroyed at the end of the hair, the hair splits into two or more parts.
4. Hair Breakage happens besides daily heat styling, blow drying and brushing, other seemingly harmless actions like tying your hair into a tight ponytail or twirling your hair with your fingers exert excessive stress on your hair, resulting in hair breakage 
5. Dryness of hair is often due to sun exposure, wind or even air-conditioning can result in hair dryness. The hair cuticle that protects the hair is weakened and is unable to retain moisture within the cuticles of the hair 

These 5 hair stresses are further elaborate by The Evil Hair Stress Brothers.

Enough words, now for the actual review. I like how the prodct smelled because it is not too strong that overpowers whichever perfume you're wearing. And, I guess my hair loves it too. See how easily managed it gets after application.

Another thing I love about this product is how light it is, it does not cause your hair to look all greasy and wet for the entire day. It is quickly absorbed that even after application, you don't feel oily on your palms even.

You should:

1. Use on towel-dried or damp hair
2. Pump an appropriate amount onto palm
3. Spread and apply evenly onto hair, concentrating on mid-length to the tip of hair
4. Do not rinse off
5. Enjoy your easily manageable hair for the rest of your day!

Before you leave, there's one more item that I would like to share - the Essential Night Care Milk.
This product protects your hair from pillow friction by leaving a protective coat around each hair
strand and prevent misaligned cuticles when hair rubs against the pillowcase, leaving
hair more manageable the next morning.

You know how you go to sleep with your hair straight and nice but wake up in the morning with a lion's mane? These are usually caused by Pillow Friction where you toss and turn at night, there is friction between your hair and the pillow, causing the cuticles to be misaligned and thereby causes frizz. Although washing our hair solves this issue, it introduces another - blow-drying our hair - which is one of the 5 stresses mentioned earlier.

So, technically, Night Care Milk is like step 1 for each night while you follow up with the CC oil as Step 2 every morning. Frankly, I couldn't see much difference for me when using this Night Care Oil. I usually sleep and wake up in the same position. Meaning to say, I very seldom move around in bed. Apologies, each morning is too much of a rush to take any photos Sorry~! Anyhow, if you're one of those that wakes up with a lion's mane every morning, please give this product a go and let me know how is it working out for you. Basically, all there is to do each night is to apply it before bed.

If you're interested in either of these products, they each retail for SGD 11.90 at most leading supermarkets, personal care stores and western pharmacies or departmental stores.

Lastly, something for your entertainment.

Do check out Essential's Facebook Page and try out the Essential’s Mane Hero Facebook game to combat the 5 evil Hair Stress Brothers and Pesky Pillow King and win attractive weekly prizes! All you have to do is to catch the bottles of CC Oil and Night Care Oil. Good luck~!