Hi I am back with yet another (two) Essential new products. Are you excited too?
I've wrote so much for them; here's some if you are new around here!

Essential sleeping hair mask + Day serum
Essential volumising series




The sleeping hair mask is one of my favourite hair care products and my sister approves of it as well. Thank you Essential and Samplestore for sending this over for me to try. :)


P/S, just wanna say sorry first because this batch's of photos turned out a bit more blur than usual! My camera is failing me? And blogger scale down the quality of my photos (anyone knows how to solve this?) so it is erm bad.

Promises:

Ingredients:

How I use it:

Packaging

The new sleeping hair mask is now called 'Night Care Milk'. Pump dispenser makes it easy to use but there can be some wastage at the end. Fret not, just store the bottle upside down when the time comes and pour it out when needed. The new packaging is bigger than the previous one.

Scent

Essential products always smell good. The smell lingers longer than other Essential products on me, not sure why.

Consistency

Not a fan of cream products but this is not as bad as I thought it will be. Not greasy on hair!

On hair

Let me summarise all the points I wish to point out here.

1. It is not sticky nor oily on my hair but it leaves an oily feeling on my hands. Not a big issue as I can wash my hands after use.

2. Hair is moisturised and super soft~ I touch my hair too much after using this. This is because Essential Night Care Milk contains hair supplement oil, smilier to hair's natural oil.

3. Not a product that will give you shiny hair. Anyway, it is meant for night time use so this is not that important to me as well.

Ingredients

Essential is not using parabens as preservatives but BHT, Phenoxylethanol... Even after researching, I am still not very sure... Is BHT a good replacement? I guess I will leave all that ingredient discussion to another post. Thus, I will keep this portion as it is until I am confident and knowledgeable enough to comment. I have included a snapshot of the ingredient list above - you can check them out if you want to.
PS, feel free to reach me if you are interested to discuss anything about cosmetic chemistry. I am all ears.

Manageable Hair

I feel that I wake up with nicer hair these days. Not sure whether it is really doing its job or its all psychological. But definitely less styling needed (though I don't really bother that much hahaha) as my hair is more manageable in the morning now.

Here, for you.

Before using Essential Night care milk

After using Essential Night Care Milk (The next morning)

Pardon my sleepy face. It is very early that day @_@


Honestly, this is not a good comparison as my hair was messy and ugly (in before photo) because I went to bed with semi-dry hair, but well you get the drift. The latter was taken when I have the luxury to shower and dry my hair completely before zzz (and of course treated with Essential night hair milk)

The Verdict

So far I am loving what I see. If I am not wrong Essential Night Care Cream is a replacement for the previous Essential hair sleeping mask I have been talking about all the time, please correct me if I am wrong. Pillow friction arises from sleeping and this nasty thing can do a lot of damage to your hair. Been there, done that. Hence, it is very important to use something that can give sufficient protection to your hair. I have not come across any other similar product so far, do let me know if you know of any though!

And if you know me well enough, you will know I am super lazy, and clueless, when it comes to styling my hair. Most of the time I will just part my fringe according to how I feel that day, finger comb through my hair and off I go. Thus, this bottle of lazybum saver is so important to me - at least my mane looks more presentable now.


Essential included a very informative paragraph in the press release so I thought it will be nice to share with all of you.



What is Pillow Friction?
- When you toss and turn at night, there is friction between your hair and the pillow, causing the cuticles to be misaligned
- Misaligned cuticles creates frizz, resulting in the fabulous lion’s mane the next morning
- Washing your hair will ‘reset’ the mane, which is why many women have no choice but to wash and blow dry their hair in the morning before going to work

o These women may not have the habit of bathing in the morning and is only doing so just so to fix their hair
o They would rather have more time for their beauty sleep than go through this hassle and routine of washing and blow-drying in the morning

Rating: 9.5/10
Repurchase

Next up is.....

make up for your hair.


Essential, you are doing this right ^^



Don't get me wrong, I am not talking about the hair mascaras or hair chalks etc, I am talking about the new Essential CC oil. Ok... it's not really make up for hair lol. It just sounds like CC cream (aka lighter/more natural version of BB cream). Essential named it CC oil because it is 1 product, protection against 5 stress factors - blow drying, combing, dryness, breakage and split ends.

FYI

Essential CC oil

Promises:

Ingredients:

Ingredients for CC oil

How I use it:

Packaging

Essential CC oil comes in a clear plastic bottle with a pump dispenser. Again nothing to complain about the packaging. It is also a good size to carry around; thus it can be reapplied anytime anywhere when needed.

Scent

Fresh floral, does not linger too long nor come out too strong on me. Different people react to the same thing differently - I have friends who smell like walking Essential products.

Consistency

More fluid and light compared to many brands out there in the market. Perhaps so, it is absorbed the moment I spread it on my hair. Thus, I find myself pumping slightly more when I am using the Essential Hair CC Oil. Just saying.

Ingredients

As above.

On hair

1. Moisturised, soft ends. The effect is better than the night hair cream. That awesome hair supplement oil~

2. Not excellent in controlling frizz.

3. Does not make hair nor hands greasy after use.

4. Absorbed very very quickly

The Verdict

CC oil is very light and does not leave an oily film on my hands after use. I personally feel that it a bit too light for my hair (read use 5-6 pumps each time). Other than that, I am pretty much loving this hair oil. It is the everyday stress on le hair that leads to long term damage. Who would have thought harmless act like combing can stress your hair?

It makes my hair more moisturised and soft than the night hair cream. My hair ends are nicer too. However, the night hair cream is better at taming and managing my hair.

Rating: 9.5/10
Repurchase

Conclusion is, you need both of them together to achieve pretty, manageable hair. I don't style my hair on a day to day basis, in fact I only bother if I've something really important/CNY/date. Thus, this is really great for me as the night care milk makes sure I wake up with decent hair (read: if you want fabulous hair you still need to style ah) and the CC oil ensures my hair is in good shape throughout the day. They do not make my hair extra greasy but don't use it continuously if you don't have the habit of washing your hair daily.







PS, cannot open zip files so the official photos are screenshots :x
PS/S, lost the photos I took for stress brothers! I also too stress!
PS/S/S, will update the broken links tomorrow or the day after. I have others things to settle right now~

Essential is so spot on with its name. It is definitely essential in my, and a lot of my friends', life. I picked up my first bottle of Essential shortly after it launched a few years back. I mean, it so so pretty, smells yummy and very affordable. My bathroom never runs out of it from then onwards. I've probably 4-5 treatments, 2 hair masks and 2 serums unused. It's my savior you see.