🙋‍♀️And stop asking brands if their products are curly girl approved. ❌️There is no such thing as a curly girl approved product because it is a not regulated claim. ❌️There are no official requirements a product needs to comply to in order to claim that it is curly girl approved. Any brand can claim on the packaging that their product is curly girl approved. I think this whole curly girl method/curly girl approved started with Lorrain Massey and then evolved in many more similar theories, and this product claim. It’s believed that such curly girl approved products should not contain ingredients like sulfates, silicones, parabens and ‘drying’ alcohols. Why are these ingredients ‘bad’ for curly hair? Where is the real (scientific) evidence for this? First, you can’t say a products works well or not based on a single ingredient. Cosmetic products are about the full formulation, the synergy of the ingredients. Secondly, it’s is absolutely not true that these ingredients do not work well for curly hair! Silicones, for example, are actually miraculous ingredients for curly hair and many products intended for curly hair contain silicones. There are some silicones which might not work for you but you can’t generalize them because there are so many different classes of silicones. Alcohols are not drying because they evaporate so quickly and are very much diluted with water to be drying (check my earlier post). You can stop looking for that curly girl approved claim. The best way to find out what works for your hair is trial and error, because something what might work for you might not work for someone else. You can, of course, let you guide by someone who has similar hair to you but don’t cancel products because of a single ingredient. You are missing out on many great ingredients and products if you only fixate on that curly girl approved (not regulated) claim. Do you look for Curly Girl approved products?