Review: Aussie Moist

Today I’ll be reviewing Aussie Moist, which is my HG (Holy Grail) cowash/wash conditioner. I was kind of skeptical at first at because of I this conditioner was all hype. Well, I have to say, for me it definitely lives up to the hype.

Quick Note: I’m a fine-normal haired relaxed 4a/b.

Price: This conditioner was about $6 for 1 liter of product when I bought it in walmart. I bought this in June and I’m STILL using it. It’s definitely is a bargain, especially for someone who is dead broke like me. (Ah, the fun of being a high school student whose parents are unemployed.)

Packaging: It has the signature Aussie packaging. A bight and highly saturated purple, blue, and white are the color scheme of the bottle. It’s a very attractive bottle in my opinion, but I didn’t enjoy how difficult it was to get the nozzle/pump dispenser to work the first time. Remember the most difficult test you ever took in school? The one even though you studied for, it still stumped you? Well, that’s what trying to get the nozzle to work was for me. I asked basically all my family for help and to no avail. I wanted to cry myself to sleep, contemplating my place in this world and why I was such a failure for not being able to open a nozzle. Then the god of all conditioners shined his light upon the bottle, and the nozzle suddenly popped up with ease. Wtf? I was glad it opened, but that annoyed me.

Either way, although it wasn’t user friendly in the beginning, the nozzle gave just enough conditioner in one to two presses for a cowash on my hair when it was APL. That factor didn’t quite make up for how it was hard to open, but I did enjoy it quite a bit.

Product Quality: I’m about to gush, so if you don’t want to read too much…It’s an A+ conditioner for relaxed hair. Okay, so, first things first. These are the ingredients: Water, Stearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Glutamic Acid, Fragrance, BIS Aminopropyl Dimethicone, Benzyl Alcohol, EDTA, Ecklonia Radiata Extract (Australian Sea Kelp), Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil (Jojoba), Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice Extract, Butylene Glycol, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone

If you’re a lady opposed to cones, this is not the conditioner for you. However, it is the conditioner for me and I’ll tell you why. My first cowash with it left me speechless, and by speechless, I mean exclaiming things like “Holy moly!” and “I can’t believe it’s not butter nexxus!” Aussie Moist makes my hair feel like absolute silk upon rinsing, and helps me detangle and gives me slip like a dream. I don’t think it’s quite as effective at moisturizing on natural hair, because my newgrowth doesn’t take to it as well as my relaxed hair does. That’s no surprise to me, the ingredients to me from the beginning seemed to be more beneficial to relaxed ladies anyway. Just a warning though.

Summing it up.
Pros
+Great for relaxed hair
+Excellent cowash/wash day conditioner
+Extremely affordable, it lasts forever.

Cons
-If you’re bad with opening things, prepare to cry yourself to sleep at night after the first day with aussie moist.
-Not great on natural hair.
-If you’re a cone hater, this ain’t for you.

The Points
Price: 5/5
Packaging: 3/5
Product Quality 14/15

Final Grade: 88