Kurlee Belle Blu Renew Nourishing Scalp Serum

A scalp serum that behaves like skincare rather than like a hair oil.
Most scalp products are oils, and on an already oily or irritated scalp that is the last thing you want. This one is water based and built on a copper ferment, a peptide and panthenol, with aloe, chamomile and neem to calm things down and fruit acids to loosen dead skin. It goes on and stays on without flattening your roots.

What makes it different

• It is not an oil. If your scalp is already oily, or you wash twice a week and cannot afford to add grease, this is the format that works for you.
• Soothing before anything else. Aloe, coconut water, chamomile and neem are there for irritation and itch, which is what sends most people looking for a scalp product in the first place.
• It leaves your roots alone. Water based and leave-in, so you can use it on wash day or between washes without losing volume at the roots.

Worth knowing before you buy: this is a scalp product only. It does nothing for the lengths of your hair, so it is an addition to your routine rather than a replacement for a conditioner or an oil. It is also fragranced, which is worth knowing if your scalp is sensitive.

Authorised Australian stockist. Genuine Kurlee Belle, shipped from our Gold Coast warehouse, backed by qualified curl specialists who use these products in the salon every day.

This goes on the scalp, not the lengths, and it stays in. Use it on clean hair that is dry or barely damp, so nothing dilutes it.

1. Wash and dry your hair first. A serum applied over product buildup never reaches the skin.
2. Part dry hair into sections, roughly two centimetres apart, so you can actually see the scalp you are treating.
3. Apply the serum straight along each parting, then work across the whole head section by section.
4. Massage it in with the pads of your fingers, not your nails, in small circles. Two to three minutes is plenty.
5. Leave it in. There is no rinsing step and no drying step, and because it is water based it will not flatten your roots.

Pro tip
Treat your scalp the way you treat your face. Clarify first, then feed. A serum on a scalp that has weeks of oil and styling product on it is money spent on the buildup rather than the skin.

Hero ingredients

• Copper ferment, the ingredient this serum is built around and the reason it reads more like a skincare product than a hair one.
• Hexapeptide-11, a peptide included here to support overall scalp condition.
• Panthenol, or pro-vitamin B5, which holds water in the skin and takes the tightness out of a dry scalp.
• Aloe leaf juice, coconut water and chamomile, which calm irritation and settle an itchy scalp.
• Sugar cane, lemon and apple fruit extracts, natural sources of fruit acids that gently loosen dead skin between washes.

Full ingredient list

Deionized Water, Glycerin, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Water, Saccharum Officinarum (Sugar Cane) Extract, Citrus Limon (Lemon) Fruit Extract, Betaine, Hexylene Glycol, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Hexapeptide-11, Vaccinium Angustifolium (Blueberry) Fruit Extract, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract, Melia Azadirachta (Neem) Leaf Extract, Prunus Armeniaca Fruit Extract, Phenoxyethanol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Panthenol (Pro Vitamin B5), Saccharomyces/Copper Ferment, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Fragrance.

Protein free. Water based rather than oil based, so it will not sit greasy on the scalp. Contains fragrance.