Tastes Funny! 3 Natural Hair Products With Enough Shea Butter And Coconut Oil To Double As Dessert

If you’re like me (a Black woman) or not like me (a non-Black person with curly hair), once or twice you’ve been tempted to eat the natural hair products in your bathroom. How bad could ingesting Miss Beulah’s Coily Hair Honey be? Incredibly. Trust me.

If you really can’t contain the urge to slurp down some of that thick, creamy paste, be my guest. But before you do, consider tasting these three popular natural hair products that you could probably suck off your finger without getting super sick.

3. Generic Brand Shea Butter

Edible ingredients like honey, shea butter, and coconut oil often make appearances in natural hair products. Unfortunately, raw shea butter doesn’t have the it factor that the other two products on this list have. It may be the only thing you could eat without being instantly sick, but it doesn’t make me want to sit down and tie a bib around my neck like an anthropomorphic cartoon animal. If you're tempted by the whole “butter” thing, try spreading some on a firm baguette to clock the distinct taste of something that is not supposed to be food. 

2. Ogx Nourishing Coconut Milk 

This leave-in conditioner utilizes that iconic coconut scent and plays into what I’ll call the “milk factor.” The milk factor is the secret natural hair companies use to make their very-obviously-not food sound more appetizing. (I’ve been told many times that this is not true but I can’t see any other reason for it.) Try dunking a small sandwich cookie into this chemical concoction or just spraying it into your mouth raw as you apply your leave-in conditioner. Nothing matters anymore.  

 1. Kinky-Curly Curling Custard

Traditional custard is a smooth dessert made with milk or cream and thickened with an egg. Curling custard, on the other hand, is for smoothing down your frizzy edges. I imagine that as your throat closes in reaction to the ingestion of sulfates, the line between these two definitions begins to blur. Before you go into anaphylactic shock, try balancing this curling custard’s subtle sweetness with the dryness of a high-quality Riesling.