Africa's Best Organics Cholesterol Tea Tree Oil Conditioner Review

A month or so ago I was checking out a hair blog when I noticed a girl with a curly & kinky hair texture similar to my own.

Her curls were defined and her hair looked great. One of the products that she highly recommended to get her style was Africa's Best Organics Cholesterol Tea-Tree Oil Conditioner.

I had to try it so I looked up the Africa's Best Cholesterol up and saw that it was over-priced online. I decided to check a beauty supply near my house to see if they sold it and sure enough I found the conditioner there. I bought a 15oz jar of it for $3.99.

The Organics Cholesterol Tea-Tree Oil Conditioner comes in a jar with a label that has yellow, red and green colors to give it an African vibe even though it's made in the US. The conditioner is the peachy yellow shade of McDonald's special sauce and it smells like an artificial lemon/lime fragrance that's nothing like the scent of tea tree oil.

The Africa's Best Cholesterol contains water, cetyl alchohol, stearyl alchohol, stearalkonium chloride, glycerin, cholesterol, soybean oil, lanolin oil, tea tree oil, methyl paraben, propyl paraben, polyquarternium-37 & propylene glycol, dicaprylate/dicaprate & PPG-1, Trideceth-6, DMDM, hydantoin, fragrance, & artificial coloring.

I didn't expect it to have many, because Africa's Best is not the best hair company in the world, but the Cholesterol Tea Tree Oil has no organic ingredients. I don't get how a product full of chemicals can be called Organics.

Africa's Best claims that this conditioner can be used as both a rinse-out and a leave-in and that it moisturizes, strengthens, and deep conditions. It is formulated for weak, damaged hair & an itchy scalp.

I used the Organics (ha!)Cholesterol Tea Tree Oil a few days after I bought it. It was much thinner than Queen Helene's Cholesterol Conditioner but I found that it was easy to spread throughout my thick hair.

I have to say that the Cholesterol Tea Tree Oil wasn't the miracle worker that I expected it to be.

I found it to be a good conditioner because it did make my natural hair feel more moisturized and less frizzy, but since it was light it didn't penetrate my hair as deeply as other conditioners have.

My hair was left soft but not as soft as I like, and it didn't feel stronger, so I don't think the Organics Cholesterol Tea Tree would make a good deep conditioner.

Because my hair was still a bit dry I used the Organics Cholesterol Tea Tree Oil Conditioner on a few sections of my hair as a leave-in. It hydrated my hair & helped to define curls without weighing them down, but it left my hair feeling artificial.

I hated the scent of this Africa's Best Product. Even though I loathe the smell of real tea tree oil, I prefer that to the artificial lemon lime fragrance of this, too much of it made me feel nauseous.

In the End...

I probably wouldn't buy the Africa's Best Organics Cholesterol Tea Tree Oil Conditioner again.

Even though it did hydrate my hair and helped define my curls, it's just full of crappy ingredients that I don't want to use on my hair.

But I think most coarse and kinky textures will find it works fine as an inexpensive everyday conditioner, not a deep conditioning treatment. I give it 3.5 out 5 stars.