What it is: A multi-benefit leave-in cream with UV protection for color-treated hair that defines curls and coils and addresses dryness.

Hair Type: Curly and Coily

Hair Texture: Medium and Thick

Key Benefits: Adds Moisture and Softness, Controls Frizz, Protects Color from UV Rays

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Coconut Oil: Enhances moisture and controls frizz.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of mineral oil.

What Else You Need to Know: This leave-in cream is ideal for tighter curls and texture types that benefit from extra moisture. It can be used as a primer and heat protectant before styling, a protectant from UV rays, and as the cream step in the LCO or max-hydration method. This cream is also free of silicones and petrolatum.

What it is: A lightweight, coconut oil-infused gel-cream that adds piecey texture and shine with a non-crunchy hold, ideal for air-drying loose curls and waves.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl Enhancing
- Frizz
- Hold

Key Benefits:
- Provides a lightweight, non-crunchy hold
- Adds piecey texture and frizz-free curl definition
- Adds shine and hydration

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Coconut Oil: Nourishes and adds moisture.
- Aloe Vera: Adds hydration and soft, piecey texture.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, and phthalates. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This original cult favorite adds piecey texture and shine for an effortlessly cool, air-dried look. Its creamy gel formula has a lightweight hold that creates the perfect air-dry for defined curls and waves without stiffness or frizz.

What it is: An argan-oil-infused styling and conditioning product for all curl types that activates and defines curls while fighting frizz.

Hair Type: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Key Benefits: Enhances Curls, Fights Frizz, and Protects Hold

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Argan Oil: Restores elasticity, smoothness, and manageability to hair.
- Polyquaternium-11: Forms a lightweight film around hair to hold curl.
- Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein: Coats porous strands and split ends.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban. This product also comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This all-in-one curl solution promotes natural-looking, touchable curls with more bounce and movement. The nurturing formula helps restore elasticity and smoothness while increasing shape and separation. It features a gentle hold and the Moroccanoil signature scent.

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Straight
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly

What it is:
A leave-in hair treatment and styling cream that delivers 10 benefits in one simple step, leaving hair perfectly polished—you asked, Alterna listened. Original CC Cream formula now available.

Key benefits:
- Treats damaged hair
- Smooths frizz
- Restores softness and shine

If you want to know more…
CAVIAR CC Cream or Complete Correction Cream is a luxe leave-in hair treatment and styling cream that corrects and perfects hair in 10 different and unbelievable ways. It provides moisture, shine, smoothness, softness, anti-breakage, heat protection, light hold, UV protection, manageability, and strength. Clinically proven to reduce breakage by 92 percent and provide up to 450° F heat protection, this is the perfect product for all hair types. It’s versatile enough to be used along or as a styling primer to layer other products on top of it and no matter how you use it, hair is perfected, protected, and flawless.

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens
- Sulfates
- Phthalates

What else you need to know:
Inspired by the Science of Skincare for Hair®, Caviar Anti-Aging is the first comprehensive line of hair care products that address intrinsic (natural aging process), chemical, and environmental aging by infusing hair with the finest, most effective ingredients to restore hydration, strength, vibrancy, and elasticity for more youthful-looking hair. Every product contains pure caviar from the roe of non-endangered sturgeon fish, sustainably farmed in France. It is naturally luxurious and rich in vitamins, minerals, and omega fatty acids that help restore hair's lipid layer to its optimal state—the key to healthier, younger-looking hair.

Suitable for color-treated hair, this product is free of DEA/TEA, petrochemicals, and synthetic color.

Research results:
With use of Caviar CC Cream vs. untreated hair:
- 92% reduction in breakage
- Provides heat protection up to 450°F/232°C

What it is: A leave-in hair styling cream that's infused with argan oil and anti-static ingredients to condition, hydrate, and reduce frizz.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Key Benefits: Prevents Dryness, Fights Frizz, and Maintains Hold

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Argan Oil: Restores elasticity, smoothness, and manageability to hair.
- Behentrimonium Chloride: An anti-static and conditioning agent.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban. This also comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This lightweight, multipurpose styling solution creates smooth styles while providing hydration and a soft hold. Suitable for all hair types and as a next-day style refresher.

What it is: A creamy, rich styler that detangles while leaving your strands shiny, silky, and smooth with a soft hold.

Hair Type: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Key Benefits:
- Enhances Curls
- Hydrates
- Fights Frizz

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Honey: Packed with amino acids, vitamins, and minerals to keep hair healthy, soft, and conditioned.
- Silk Amino Acids: Repair damaged hair cuticles, make hair less frizzy, lock in moisture, and give hair a natural sheen.
- Shea Butter: Helps maintain moisture and softness.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also cruelty-free, and gluten-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This cream is formulated to be buildable. Based on the density and the desired volume of your curls, use more or less product. It is packed with superfoods, omega 6 and 9 fatty acids, and vitamin E to provide a soft to medium hold and work well as a wash and go styler on wavy or curly hair textures.

What it is: A weightless, conditioning leave-in cream that adds shine, detangles, tames frizz, and protects hair from heat styling.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns: Dryness, Frizz, and Heat Protection

Formulation: Lightweight Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Butylene Glycol: Organic alcohol primarily used in skincare products as both a humectant and slip agent; helps to boost hair’s ability to retain moisture while providing a silky, smooth texture.
- Sodium CocoylAmino Acids: Heat activated complex that protects stressed hair; restores shine and smoothness to hair making it look and feel healthy again.
- Sea Buckthorn Oil: Rich in vitamin C and A, antioxidants, and healthy omega fatty acids, including the essential omega-7.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also cruelty-free and and gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Supernova Moisture and Shine Cream provides superior hydration and lightweight-conditioning. It helps to boost hair's ability to retain moisture, while providing a silky, smooth texture. A heat activated complex restores shine and smoothness to hair.

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Straight
✔ Wavy
✔ Curly
✔ Coiled
✔ Tightly Coiled

What it is:
A defining cream that promotes relaxed, frizz-free curls and adds hydration and shine to hair.

Key benefits:
- Defines and relaxes curls
- Creates a smooth, defined look
- Adds a shiny, supple finish

If you want to know more…
This lightweight cream enhances curl shape and definition without rigidity. It increases suppleness and strengthens strands, whilst fighting frizz and controlling hair leaving curls calm and relaxed.

What it is: A leave-in hair cream that protects hair from sun damage, saltwater, sand residue, and chlorine.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Dryness
- Frizz
- UV Protection

Key Benefits:
- Provides UV protection against sun damage
- Smooths hair to manage frizz
- Nourishes dry, sun-exposed hair

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- UV Filters: Absorb UV rays to minimize sun damage.
- Coconut Water: Hydrates hair.
- Vitamin E: Protects from environmental aggressors like saltwater, chlorine, and sand.

What Else You Need to Know: This hair cream is the key for healthy, sun-exposed hair. It hydrates and tames frizz while absorbing UV rays and defending against sand, saltwater, and chlorine residue. It can also be applied on dry or damp hair or at the pool or the beach,—whenever you need it.

What it is: A lightweight thickening cream made with just a hint of conditioning for naturally full, soft hair to pump up hair’s volume and softness.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, and Curly

Hair Texture: Fine

Hair Concerns:
- Dryness
- Volume

Key Benefits:
- Makes fine hair look and feel thicker
- Provides long-lasting, touchable body, fullness, and thickness
- Provides light conditioning

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Thickening Molecule: Deposits microscopic thickening dots between strands so hair looks and feels fuller.
- Myristyl Alcohol: Provides lightweight conditioning.
- Emollient blend: Enhances softness and shine.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This cream is powered by Living Proof’s patented thickening molecule, which creates space between each strand with tiny dots that deliver big body. The result? Hair that looks and feels thicker with a hint of conditioning for touchable softness.

What it is: A styling cream that weightlessly blocks humidity, conditions hair, and smooths cuticles.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Medium and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Dryness
- Frizz
- Straightens/Smooths

Key Benefits:
- Weightlessly blocks humidity
- Smooths hair and stops frizz
- Adds light conditioning

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Healthy Hair Molecule: Creates a weightless shield around each hair strand, blocking humidity and smoothing each hair strand to help eliminate frizz.
- Cetyl Alcohol: Provides lightweight conditioning.
- Emollient Blend: Enhances softness and shine.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This cream is powered by Living Proof‘s patented healthy hair molecule, which eliminates frizz by creating a weightless shield around each strand to block humidity. Hair is nourished, smoothed, and conditioned for a frizz-free look no matter the weather.

No Frizz Nourishing Styling Cream will not dry out your hair and contains some light conditioning agents. If you believe you‘re experiencing dryness, keep this in mind: No Frizz does not contain silicones. Silicones make hair feel slippery, and the "dryness" you‘re experiencing with No Frizz could be the absence of this slippery feeling. No Frizz works to smooth the surface of hair and provide long-term frizz-fighting benefits—rather than masking it like silicones.

What it is: A lightweight, silicone-free heat-protectant cream that minimizes frizz, smooths hair, enhances shine, and protects against heat up to 450°F.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Dryness
- Frizz
- Heat Protection

Key Benefits:
- Protects hair from heat styling up to 450°F
- Calms frizz and smooths hair
- Enhances shine

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Rosehip Oil: Protects the hair from free-radical damage and provides essential fatty acids to help deter frizz and balance hair hydration.
- Argan Oil: Provides vitamin E and essential fatty acids to thoroughly condition and help address dryness, damage, and frizz.
- Coconut Oil: Helps seal in moisture and protects against breakage, environmental impurities, and excess heat.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This lightweight finishing cream minimizes frizz and protects hair from heat styling up to 450°F. Rosehip, argan, and coconut oils seal the hair cuticle to lock in hydration and lock out humidity that causes frizz. Hair is left smooth, lustrous, and manageable. This cream is 97 percent naturally derived.

This product is an Allure Best of Beauty winner.


Clean at Sephora
Clean at Sephora is formulated without a list of over 50 ingredients, including sulfates (SLS and SLES), parabens, phthalates, and more. For the full list, check out the Ingredients tab.

What it is: A rich, UV-protective cream that creates moisturized, flexible curls without the crunch while deeply hydrating hair, reducing frizz, and adding shine.

Hair Type: Wavy and Curly

Hair Texture: Medium and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl Enhancing
- Dryness
- Frizz

Key Benefits:
- Defines curls and provides moisture
- Reduces frizz and provides hold
- Provides UV protection

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- HydraSculpt Blend™: Blends styling benefits with moisture so curls are controlled and hydrated.
- Oil and Butter Blend: Helps hydrate thirsty curls.
- Rich Moisture Mix: Provides moisturizing benefits.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, phthalates, mineral oil. This product is also cruelty-free and gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This cream has the same moisturizing, defining formula you love—but with a new look. It contains Hydrasculpt Blend™ and a butter and oil blend that combines moisture and styling benefits to deeply hydrate hair, reduce frizz, and add shine.

What it is: A smoothing cream that melts on contact, helping it to quickly absorb to tame frizz and flyaways and enhance shine without weighing hair down.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Key Benefits: Helps Address Dryness, Frizz, and Breakage

Formulation: Lightweight Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Coconut Oil: Nourishes hair

Ingredient Callouts: This product is sulfate- and paraben free, vegan, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Enriched with coconut oil, this smoothing cream nourishes all hair types and textures for soft, smooth, and silky hair. This formula can be used on wet or dry hair without ever feeling heavy or weighed down.

What it is: A texturizing leave-in cream that refreshes hair for instant volume, touchable hold, and a breezy texture. 

Hair Type: Straight and Wavy

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns: Hold, Volumizing, and Color Safe

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Sunflower Seed Extract: Protects hair from environmental aggressors while guarding against dryness, color fading, and brassiness.    
- Sea Water: Protects hair from breakage and adds minerals to damaged hair.
- Pro-Vitamin B5: Helps hair appear fuller and provides body while smoothing dry hair and hydrating the scalp.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, and mineral oil. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This do-it-all texturizer enhances waves, creates separation, and amplifies volume for the ultimate "undone" look. The pro-vitamin B5 formula works to visibly thicken and provide all over body to both long and short hair styles alike.

Which hair type is it good for?
✔ Curly
✔ Coiled
✔ Tightly Coiled

What it is:
A smoothing curl control cream that adds bounce and definition to hair.

Key benefits:
- Controls curls
- Fights frizz
- Lightly conditions

If you want to know more…
Get curls into formation with a smoothing control cream that softly coaxes curls to keep them from frizzing, splitting, or sagging. Utilizing an antioxidant rich, anti-humidity formula, it provides nourishment, hydration, and touchable curl definition.

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens
- Sulfates
- Phthalates

What else you need to know:
This product is certified vegan and formulated without MIT/MCI, artificial colors, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, triclocarban, aluminum, talc, and have less than one percent synthetic fragrances.

Sea buckthorn berry (also known as obliphica) is included in all of Amika’s haircare and styling products. It contains over 190 biologically active compounds, including vitamin C (15 times more than an orange), vitamin A (three times more than a carrot), and vitamin E. It also has high concentrations of the rare omega-7, making up 40 percent of the berry. Typically only found in fish oil, omega-7 keeps free radicals at bay and promotes the production of collagen, a key building block for skin, hair, and nails.

Sea buckthorn has been thoroughly researched in over 130 modern scientific studies that have found that this berry promotes health. Women throughout the ages have used the obliphica berry to protect themselves against the ravages of the sun and the elements. Founded on tradition and now based on extensive scientific research, sea buckthorn is one of the biggest functional whole food rediscoveries of the 21st century.

What it is: A styling cream that creates instant and massive volume, thickness, and body, formulated with Redensyl™ to support long-term hair growth and reduction of hair loss.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine and Medium

Key Benefits: Volumizing, Thickening, and Hydration

Formulation: Lightweight Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Redensyl: A patented blend of ingredients that promote hair growth by stimulating regeneration in the hair follicles and the reduction of hair loss.
- Hydrolyzed Rice Protein: Improves hair volume and manageability while providing thickness and natural shine to hair; this rich, gluten-free, and vegetable protein is naturally rich in amino acids, which contribute to a thicker look and feel.
- Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein: Consists of tiny molecules that can penetrate hair to thicken, volumize, lightly moisturize, and make hair more pliable from the inside out.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also cruelty-free and gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This lightweight, highly concentrated styling-treatment hybrid creates immediate hair plumpness. Use for styling to instantly achieve massive volume, thickness, and body with a matte-satin finish.

Sea buckthorn berry (also known as obliphica) is included in all of Amika’s haircare and styling products. It contains over 190 biologically active compounds, including vitamin C (15 times more than an orange), vitamin A (three times more than a carrot), and vitamin E. It also has high concentrations of the rare omega-7, making up 40 percent of the berry. Typically only found in fish oil, omega-7 keeps free radicals at bay and promotes the production of collagen, a key building block for skin, hair, and nails.

Sea buckthorn has been thoroughly researched in over 130 modern scientific studies that have found that this berry promotes health. Women throughout the ages have used the obliphica berry to protect themselves against the ravages of the sun and the elements. Founded on tradition and now based on extensive scientific research, sea buckthorn is one of the biggest functional whole food rediscoveries of the 21st century.