Get A Handle On Your Hair With Kerastase Nutritive Oleo-Relax Slim And Brume Nuit Apres-Soleil Treatment

July 16, 2009 by Storey
Filed under Product Reviews

Even if you don’t normally suffer from unruly hair, summer conditions might have you fighting the frizz. Humidity, sun and dry air can all take a toll on our tresses and leave us in need of some professional help. Kerastase is a well known salon brand that has the help you’ve been looking for with their Nutritive Oleo-Relax Slim in a leave-in creme and concentrated masque. Through in the overnight leave in Brume Nuit Apres-Soleil treatment and you’ll be back to smooth hair in no time.

The Oleo-Relax Slim products contain apricot oil, camelina oil, pracaxi oil and ceramide. I don’t know what 3 of these 4 ingredients are either, all I know is that they help smooth and straighten the hair, while protecting it from moisture (humidity) that can cause it to get poofy. After shampooing, I applied the masque and left it on for 10 minutes. The masque comes in a jar and is a thick orange cream with a musky-spicy scent. It rinsed out easily, but didn’t leave my hair feeling as slick as I thought it might. The first time I used it, I let my hair air-dry to test it’s frizz fighting capabilities. It did a pretty good job, and even though it says it is supposed to help straighten hair, it actually left my hair wavier than usual.

The next time I washed my hair, I followed the recommended regimen of using the Creme after towel-drying my hair. This leave-in treatment is meant to help further fight frizz and calm ends. The Creme is white and has a sweet vanilla-y floral scent. I tired the air-dry again and got even nicer results – very little frizz and still had nice waves. The directions say to style as usual, so the next round was tested using both the masque, creme, my usual styling product and a blow-dry. My hair was very un-frizzy and looked really great. The product felt a bit heavy in my hair, but the product is for those with thick hair and mine isn’t really thick or thin.

Next up I tried the Brume Nuit Apres-Soleil overnight treatment. I’ve never seen a product like this and was really excited to try it. Why not treat your hair while you sleep? Lot’s of time for the product to do its work! This treatment is sprayed on the hair before going to bed. You can spray it on dry or wet hair – just be sure you don’t have product on your hair, otherwise this stuff can’t actually get to your hair. I sprayed it on and then combed it through, as well as massaged it into my scalp. That because this not only treats hair, but your scalps as well. It aims to undue damage done by the sun, as well as provide future protection. For the hair, it helps fight color-fade and UV damage while strengthening hair and providing moisture. For the scalp it helps with sunburned or irritated scalp. I was worried about what it would do to my sheets, because it did make my hair look greasy, but it didn’t hurt my precious 600-thread count. It’s light floral scent was pleasant and faded after about an hour. In the morning I washed and styled my hair as usual and it did feel softer and my scalp was definitely less itchy than it had been for the last few weeks. Since this product is later washed out, I think it would work well on all hair types.