When I saw SheaMoisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil Strengthen, Grow and Restore Shampoo, I knew I wanted to try it. I’ve been using SheaMoisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil Strengthen, Grow and Restore Shampoo and SheaMoisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil Strengthen, Grow and Restore Leave-In Conditioner, faithfully for about 3 months. I first wrote about it here.
If you’re a product junkie like me, you HAVE to try every product. SheaMoisture is a personal favorite of mine. They have the best sulfate-free, moisturizing shampoos with Eden BodyWorks leading in second with their NEW EdenBody Works Coconut Shea Moisture Shampoo.
The benefits of Jamaican Black Castor Oil (JBCO) make it worth the try alone. You can read about the benefits and how it regrows hair here.
In addition to JBCO ingredients include apple cider vinegar which is a natural clarifier for your hair and scalp. I have dry scalp and use apple cider vinegar as a natural remedy for dry scalp and as a clarifying treatment. Again I was sold!!!
Now that you know why I brought it. Let’s get to it!
Does It Work???
Before I answer this question, it’s important to understand how and why a product works. Reading the ingredients and product label is the first step. Here are the product label claims:
Its clarifying, sulfate-free formula nourishes, strengthens and removes product build-up to reduce hair breakage, shedding and to promote hair growth. Infused with apple cider vinegar and shea butter to aid in regulating and balancing pH levels on the scalp for soft, shiny hair. Gentle enough for every day use.
The product does remove build-up. This is a big part of what apple cider vinegar does along with balancing the pH level of the hair and scalp which leave your hair soft, shiny and almost frizz-free.
I don’t shampoo my hair daily. The most I will shampoo is 2-3 times a week depending on my workout schedule (I go to the Crossfit gym 2-3 times a week.) My hair was still soft and moisturized. Easy to detangle and manage even after 2-3 shampoos in a row. I’ll say the product claim is true!
Does it promote hair growth??? I’m always skeptical when products claim to grow hair. How do you make the hair or body do something that it’s already doing naturally? Unless you suffer from alopecia, your hair is always growing. I can’t say that I saw a noticeable amount of hair growth. I’m also not looking for it either. You know, I stop doing length checks a while ago. But, please, if you have seen hair growth as a result of this product share in the comments section below this post.
I can’t speak on hair growth, but I can speak on shedding!!!
I had my second baby about 6 months ago and I had already prepared myself for postpartum shedding. There are all kinds of remedies. I don’t do any of them! I know, I know…
The only thing that I do is make sure to take a daily prenatal vitamin. I started using SheaMoisture JBCO Shampoo about 3 months after my little Pooh Bear was born. (You can read his birth story here.) In the beginning, I noticed that my hair line was thinning from the postpartum shedding. But immediately after using the shampoo I saw a difference. Less hair in the drain and more hair in my headline. I can say, yes, it does reduce breakage as well as overall shedding.
Read Ways to Reduce Postpartum Shedding
More About SheaMoisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil Strengthen, Grow and Restore Shampoo provides moisture to natural, chemically processed, color treated and heat styled hair. Its clarifying, sulfate-free formula nourishes, strengthens and removes product build-up to reduce hair breakage, shedding and to promote hair growth. Infused with apple cider vinegar and shea butter to aid in regulating and balancing pH levels on the scalp for soft, shiny hair. Gentle enough for every day use.
I’ve been fighting hair loss for almost 15 years now. A dermatologist told me to use Rogain because it is the only product on the market that actually works to regrow hair, and Nioxin shampoo because its very cleansing. The rogain worked wonders, in 3 months I noticed my hair stopped falling out and started to grow. Downside is that I had to wash my hair daily with the Nioxin shampoo because it left a terrible residue that made my hair look chalky at the scalp. With the residue and daily washing with such a strong shampoo, my hair started to become very dry. After some years I stopped using it to see if maybe my hair would sustain the growth on its own, but all my regrown hair, and some more, fell out. I have been using it on and off for about 7 years and so far I’ve only managed to slow down my balding process. Two months ago I saw this shampoo and conditioner at the store and have heard that castor oil is great to prevent hair loss, so I bought it and started using it 2-3 times a week while still using the rogaine on and off. A few weeks ago I started to notice that my hair loss was significantly lower (something that didn’t happen with the way I was using rogain). I stopped using rogaine and my hair loss has continued to decrease over time. I clicked on this blog because I wanted to see if it had worked for other people and am glad to see that it has. It may be too early to tell, but I would like to think this shampoo and conditioner have become my solution to this long hair loss struggle.
Just a little background on my situation. I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidsm due to Graves disease when I was 20, my hair loss started shortly after. My dermatologist was not able to pinpoint the reason for my hair loss, but guessed that it was due to my Graves Disease, so no alopecia was diagnosed for me. I was told my hair loss would fix itself once my thyroid was controlled and went on remission, but I have been on remission for almost 8 years and the hair loss never stopped… until now…? we will see ^-^
Ive had my locs 5 years. Ibegan having hair loos in 2017, my locs began to thin at the root. I tried letting grow free form to grow thicker but that didn’t help. My doctor later diagnoised me with having Alopecia. I had this huge gapping bald spot in the back of my head. I have Lupus and hypothyroidism which both causes Alopecia. My doctor reccomended i use Rogaine. I don’t think he knew or even cared about sucecess rates just that it was advertised for hair growth. I decided to use Shea Moisture Jamacian Black Castor Oil. I wash my locs every week. Ive been using Sheal shampoo and leave in conditioner for about 4 months now and see a lot of improvement. It’s like new grass growing, it started out as fuzz, My hair is real soft anyway but it’s extra soft and finr, comes with age, i’m 63 years old. Just recently about two months ago i begain using Shea Black Castor Oil directly to the scalp, i use it once or twice aweek. Then i noticed a lot of itching and scalp irriation. So i looked up the affects of black castor oil and itxhing means it’s working! I can tolerate the itching, it ‘s not bad and at least i have signs that the product is working. I have reccomended these products to 2 of my friends with hair loss issues and i’m so happy my bald patch is growing nicely and i didn’t have to cut my locks to start all over again!
If you need the authentic Jamaica Black Castor Oil you can get it from LaBelle Boutique 512-660-8982