- Why doesn't the black thing work for me?
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So today it's probably gonna be a relatively quick video,
but I'm going to go ahead and review
Head & Shoulders Royal Oils Shampoo.
A few of y'all, when I made a video
talking about how I use Head & Shoulders on my locs,
a few of y'all did ask if I had tried this version yet,
and the answer was yes, I was trying it in the background.
I think the main difference between the Royal Oils line
of Head & Shoulders versus just regular Head & Shoulders
I guess, I guess, is that it's caring more
towards the black demographic and so it's very much talking
about maintaining moisture in your hair
because I think we all kinda know Head & Shoulders
can be a little drying.
And then also using ingredients that we all seem
as the diaspora, as a digital diaspora we all seem to enjoy
so things like coconut oil for example
is sort of the main stead ingredient
that they've put on the labeling for us
and it's like a cue, a cue for all of us to know.
So as I said, I've been trying this product
in the background for a while now,
actually for a couple of months because the bottles are big,
it takes you a minute to get through a bottle.
When I first reached for this product,
and when I first saw that they even had this product,
and they came out with a whole line
based on this Royal Oils branding look, feel, whatever.
I couldn't help but just have a minute of pause
and I feel like I just kinda wanna talk about this
more in the comments with y'all.
No shade to Head & Shoulders at all,
y'all been holdin' me down, amen.
'Cause I have allergies that present themselves in my scalp
all the time and I have dandruff that's year round,
so using Head & Shoulders, it really just keeps
my scalp in check, keeps my hair clean,
all of that, I really love it.
But when I saw the whole Royal Oils line
it really just had me thinking like, "Do I need
"my blackness identified by Head & Shoulders?
"I don't think I do."
And that was the thing, that was just sort of
the deeper thing that I started thinking about
with this line of products where it was just kinda like
to me, Head & Shoulders is a brand that isn't really a brand
that needs to be specific about a demographic at all.
I feel like if you're reaching for Head & Shoulders,
you're reaching for it not necessarily
because you're a certain race or a certain demographic,
but because you have a scalp issue
and you know Head & Shoulders gon' hold you down.
Dandruff issues are universal.
I don't need to be reminded.
I don't need to be black with dandruff issues,
I just have dandruff issues and that's it.
Anyway, but on a separate note, I was gettin' to the actual
bare bones review of this product.
So for me, eh, eh.
Which is another reason why it had me thinking about this
like, "Do I need to have a multi-hyphenate identity
"when it comes to dandruff?"
Because for me, the main sort of ingredient like I said
is with the Royal Oils line is coconut oil,
and actually, my hair doesn't do well
with coconut oil at all.
Now in comparison, the Royal Oils line
is supposed to be focusing on moisture as well,
I did notice that the shampoo itself is a smidgen thicker,
if you will, than other versions
of Head & Shoulder's that I've used.
But comparing it to the Deep Moisture version
of Head & Shoulders, I actually like that one better,
and that one comes with avocado oil.
But also just in general, if you actually look
at the ingredients list on these products,
the oil is the 12th ingredient, so.
Again I feel like if you're the type of person
that's using Head & Shoulders, you're not thinking about,
moisture is not your main concern, or if it is,
you already know the steps to take
after using a product like this to put moisture
back into your hair.
You're reaching for Head & Shoulders
because it's medicinal for you.
You're using it to maintain or help maintain
a certain level of health and then on the back end,
doing what is necessary to have good moisture.
So when I wash my hair with Head & Shoulders Deep Moisture,
it stays cleaner a lot longer
and I don't have to shampoo as often.
I can get away with shampooing once a week.
If I'm working out a lot, twice a week,
but with the Royal Oils version I felt like my hair
did not stay as clean, I had to shampoo
a couple more times than usual.
So that's something else that I kinda was just like,
"This just isn't workin' for me,"
which then gets you into this whole identity crisis of like,
"Why doesn't the black thing for me?"
As always, take my review with a grain of salt
because again, I have scalp conditions,
certain oils really just don't, oil in general
is kind of a thing that I stay away from
unless again it's moisturizing
just the bottom half of my locks.
As for me and my house, we're gonna stick
to the Deep Moisture version and call it a day.
But I'm happy I got to try it.
Again, Head & Shoulders, y'all be holdin' me down
for a minute, you know what I'm sayin'?
Thanks, but no thanks?
I'm never gonna get sponsored at this rate, but anyway.
In the comments below if you've tried the Royal Oils line,
any of the other products, let us know in the comments below
because if it did work for you
and it did have a significant difference,
I want people to know that, so, let us know your hair type,
hair texture, all that kinda fun stuff,
and then which products you use, your method,
all that kinda good jazz in the comments below
so we can keep this conversation going, all right?
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