SoftSheen-Carson Dark and Lovely Triple Nourished Silkening Relaxer No-Lye Regular Strength with Shea Butter, Jojoba and Avocado Oils, Regular

Great product, leaves hair shiny, conditioned, soft and amazingly manageable! I LOVE THIS product!!! Will definitely buy Again!

The SoftSheen-Carson Dark and Lovely Triple Nourished Silk is a very gentle and effective relaxer cream. It straightens well without leaving the hair feeling overly dry or damaged. My hair felt soft, smooth, and manageable after using it. One thing I really liked is that it has very little smell compared to other relaxers, which makes the process much more comfortable. Great option if you want a milder formula that still gives good results.

I really like this straightening because it doesn't have so many chemicals, it's not abrasive, it leaves my hair super smooth, it doesn't have a strong smell, it's super good, I really love it, I've been using it for about 6 months and I have no complaints, for the price it's excellent, I really recommend this product, really yes, my hair is super strong and with the regular I manage to tame it, I love it too much

A little back story mixed in with my review; I bought the giant bucket of affirm and tried 3 or four different ways to apply the relaxer (with and without base applied, without and without strand protection product, etc) and my hair kept reverting to my fro with moisture in the air or sweat from my scalp. I gave up and bought this box relaxer thinking I needed a stronger formula (even though I grew up receiving relaxers and always knew my hair to respond well to “gentle formulas”) after some google searching. I left the affirm on my hair up to 30 min and it still reverted. This Dark and Lovely was on for all of 5 min in the most resistant section of my hair and when I went back to smooth, I noticed that the effort to work it in was already enough to get it smooth and it stayed. So I moved on to other sections, and the application took me all of a little over 15 min (grown out pixie cut length, just under the shortest bob length hair) I just took one extra minute to smooth all over in a pretty lazy way then went to rinse. Not even a tingle yet and I was nervous because I had been scratching my scalp freely (lol) and I did not apply a base/scalp protectant. I rinsed for a good amount of time, only applied each product step afterwards once, I wish I had either shampooed or done the conditioner step twice because despite my long rinsing, heavy application of the neutralizing conditioner, I still had a section that I smelled the slightest bit of the relaxer odor when I went to blow dry. Nothing fell out, still no burning, I flat ironed and it came out great, but I do feel if the odor was there, I could have done a better neutralizing and shampooing job. So double up on that yall. (I know for next time) my hair stayed smoothed out, no puffing back up, and also this was done about two weeks post color lift treatment, I did not have bleach applied to my roots, I left dark roots while lifting to a light blonde. Of course some relaxer overlapped the color treated area, again, everything is just fine. I did a cosmetic code search and found that my batch of D&L was made in June of this year, i bought it mid September and used October 1. I did the same search on my affirm (Avlon) relaxer and the results said their code could either be Jan this year or sometime in 2022. With results I kept getting, I believe it may have been the latter. Be careful where you buy your products, (I got it off Amazon) but we all know relaxers were sitting idle on shelves during the natural hair movement) verify the batch production date with a quick search to ensure you get something will be effective and not old stock. Overall this was very easy to apply, I used the regular formula, not the super because Google told me the regular was stronger than most gentle formula relaxers out there, I only recommend double neutralizing steps, but not because of any burning or tingling just to get it all off the strands, the post relaxer steps also smell very good, I don’t recommend the last little leave in conditioner because it was a little heavy. I would say use a good leave in spray-heat protectant (Avlon has great options for these) and this is a novice friendly box set. Thanks for reading!

Great relaxer

Best brand hair relaxer, left my hair feeling smooth and it was well processed!!

It was my first time using this brand. I did my own application therefore the result wasn't uniform but in all, I was satisfied. I have 4c hair. I only retouch 3 x per year. This year I'm retouching every 6 months to reduce overlapping and over-processing. I left it on only 25 minutes (application time & smoothing).

This product is very good, I have bought it several times