 Before we start this video I just want to let you guys know of something I did today that is another milestone in my natural hair journey and for the first time in going on four years I went to a salon at actual beautician touched my hair since I did the big chop and the reason why I had to go to the salon is because my hair was in desperate need of a trim and there was really just no way to get around it I just needed to get my hair trim it's more important for me to have healthy hair than to have long hair as long as it's healthy that's really all that matters to me it's the help of my hair the growth will come later and I know it'll come later but it was on a whim it wasn't planned I just went in just did a walk-in and I asked her you know how much she charged to do a trim and she told me and she only had one client at the time it's just I guess a real slow day and she's like well I can you know get you taking care right now and I was like okay I wasn't planning on that so it's gonna be a little bit of setback on my rice water because you know I'm doing this rice water every week and excuse me those that that have been following me you know that I'm doing this rice water every week and it's gonna be a little bit of setback but that's okay and again healthy hair is better than long hair so it's gonna make the progression the growing progression hopefully not slow because with you know probably trimming your hair anyway that's gonna help in a year hair to grow anyway so I'm not really concerned really about the the rice water if it works it works if it doesn't it doesn't but I'm still gonna go through the whole year of using that to see what happens but my hair is a little shorter she did trim my hair and I was checking to see just how much of a trim so the last time my hair came you know under my chin so yeah it stops right at my nose so I guess my hair was a need of a really bad trim so she rounded it all for me it looks fuller actually my ends are real stringy looking anyway and I knew it needed to be trimmed I knew it need to be cut so she just rounded it all for me and she didn't style it or anything you know she just plucked it out because all I just you like said just did a trim I didn't style it I didn't want her to style it but that's all I did so I just want to share that with you guys so on to the video welcome back to my channel thanks so much for tuning in if you are new welcome and don't forget to subscribe if you're currently a subscriber welcome back in today's video I'm going to be sharing with you guys some new products that I receive from Eden Body Works Eden Body Works of course is one of my one of my favorite natural hair brands so I'm really excited to have gotten these products I was a little surprised that I actually got some extra products that I was not expecting which were complimentary so I was very excited and pleased with that so let me show you what I purchased so I share with you guys and one previous video of a product that I had got from Eden Body Works I did a I did a demo for their Trio which was the almond marshmallow line there were three products in that line and which was a leak a spray I think it was a leave-in spray and serum a hydrogen serum and it was something else I can't remember what it was I apologize but the one that stood out to me the most was the hydration serum I actually fell in love with that hydration serum and after using it again after that video my hair loved it even more and it was probably the best product so far that I have put on my hair aside from the Meal Organics mint deep conditioner this hydration serum is everything to my hair so they didn't have any specials going on but I just wanted to just purchase them anyway and they're like 8.99 a bottle and I wanted to get as many as I could so I got three of these bad boys because I really really love this hydration serum it is awesome awesome awesome I didn't go into detail of these products so I won't do it in this video so just check out the video I'll leave the link above now the new item I purchased was from their hibiscus honey line this one is the curl hydration shampoo so on the back of this product it says it gently cleanses and nourishes the hair it adds moisture which is what my hair desperately needs and softness to give curls an extra boost of hydration safe or color treated hair so basically you just apply this to wet hair lather from the root to the tip and rinse well so basically standard shampoo directions that you normally find this product contains no mineral oils and no petroleum and it is cruelty-free so some of the ingredients in the shampoo includes also the hibiscus flower extract honey aloe vera leaf juice and some other words in here that I honestly I cannot pronounce snap up and snap down type of the top let's see what it smells like it's got a it's a sweet smell I wouldn't say that it's a flowery type smell it's a very light scented fragrance it smells very clean like us it almost smells like a soap like a nice fresh smelling soap now as far as the consistency go it's very runny it has a creamy texture to it it feels very light and creamy it's got a little stringiness in it but it's not sticky at all it feels very moisturizing now the bonus items that came with it that I was surprised to see in the box I got the and this is also part of the hibiscus honey line this is the hydration custard on the back it says it's designed for thicker textures wavy curly and kinky hair to lock in moisture gives definition add shine and to use it it just says use on freshly washed hair section hair and apply on ends up and this is what the custard looks like and it's very it's thick it also feels creamy and light it does not feel greasy it's not sticky it's not tacky it just absorbs right into my fingers I'm sorry it's it's really hard to read it's it's very very tiny so I can't really see it's the words I see something that says rice and tomato fruit and hibiscus flower extract honey aloe vera leaf juice and the other freebie that they sent me is the hair tonic which is the liquid vitamin also from the hibiscus honey line and for this product it says transform dry brittle dull lifeless hair high potency concentration of nutrients to make the hair more manageable and healthy look in so it's non-greasy and it's alcohol-free and you just lightly sprints on your hair daily is how to use it it says this product contains no mineral oils no petroleum no dyes and also is cruelty free and it's kind of small to read but some of the ingredients in here of course water being the first ingredient it also has hibiscus flower extract in here honey hydrogenated castor oil it's kind of it's a small bottle so it's kind of hard to read so the packaging is really pretty and also on even on the trial size products the packaging is really nice okay so I am so excited to go ahead and try the shampoo I'm okay without getting the conditioner I got enough conditioners but I just really want to just try the shampoo so we're gonna go ahead and get started get into this video and see how the shampoo does and I cannot wait to put the hydration serum back in my hair but yeah so without further ado let's get started she's using the shampoo as you saw and I will say my initial reaction I was very well pleased and I applied the product to my hair it went on as a pretty thick lather although it didn't leave a really big sud so that was really good it lets me know there was more cleansing it wasn't stripping of my hair I did not feel any stripping of my hair I did feel the moisture in this product and throughout my hair it was very detangling so I really like that it did help me to detangle my hair so I did not have to use any tools I did not have to use any combs or brushes to detangle my hair with the shampoo which is a bonus for me now off camera I just did a conditioner just using the hello hydration so I didn't show that I just want to focus on just the in body works products so now we're going to get into the styling part well not so much as a style I just want to show you the other products here I'm so excited to use my hydration serum this is the leave-in therapy conditioner that I got from the almond marshmallow line with in body works so I'm just gonna spray a little this on my hair because it's starting to dry out already and just certain little sections I can feel so I'm just gonna mostly in the middle so I'm just gonna hydrate that a little bit and my hair feels so good since she trimmed it like it really feels good it just feels it feels full it doesn't my ends feel a whole lot better they do not feel scraggly they don't feel dry and frayed at the ends so just for this video I'm just going to part it in two sections and I'm just gonna start with the back first I'm again I'm not trying to use any styling tools or combs on my hair at all I'm going to try to see how long I can go without using any combs or styling tools on my hair it's now work through a camera it looks like it has a white film on my hair but it really doesn't it's really just the lighting just coming through but it doesn't have a film on my hair and if it does it's gonna draw because I'm you know fully versed with this product well enough to know that it is going to dry clear but yeah so I'm just gonna let this air drop I don't think I'm going to apply in this video the the hydration custard to my whole hair because I just wanted to do the serum and just let it air dry but in another video I will do just the hydration custard when I don't have the serum in my hair for the hydration custard I'm just going to use that on a separate video and I'm just going to do a twist out our band two knots using the custard because I think I got I got enough in my hair I don't need to put anything else in my hair I like to kind of keep my hair light with these products I don't like to layer on products so yeah the shampoo was great love the hydration serum as normal the hydration serum is everything for my hair it is everything that my hair needs okay so I'm going to try the hair tonic I'm not really sure how this is supposed to feel or what it's supposed to do but I'll spray it oh it has a extremely fine mist see what it smells like I don't even check to see what it smells like it's a very light fragrance I can't tell you what it smells like but it it's sweet smelling but it's very very faint it's a light smell but the mist of this product is extremely uh-oh I just sprayed it in my eyes we'll do that again so the mist of this product is extremely misty like it has an extreme mist I don't know if you can see so I'm just going to spray it all over a couple of pumps is really all that you need because this has a fine mist and it will cover a large portion of your hair so it won't take much using this hair tonic so I like that I like the pump it's very easy to get the product out of here it's not a struggle so I like that that's really good this hair tonic is very light weight it did let me see if it's greasy because it says it's not greasy so let's just make sure that it's not greasy so I'm spreading my hands yep not greasy it's not greasy at all it absorbs extremely fast yep very light non-greasy hands are dry so I love that but I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did don't forget to like comment and subscribe and to continue to help me grow my channel it's just Janine I will see you guys on the next video bye guys