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We do need to have a pretty serious
conversation today
about Mielle Organics and some things that have
been happening
and I also promised you that I would bring
you a review of the rice water
collection. Before
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Let's get into it. So I'm going to go
ahead and get the review out of the way
because that is what I promised y'all
and then we can kind of talk about some
things that I've been noticing...
some things that other people have been
noticing as well in regards to Mielle
Organics. So I got my hands
on the rice water collection by Mielle
Organics. The rice water collection of
course
features rice water, which is a natural
source of protein.
You've seen it all over the YouTube, all
over the internet, it's been a real real
craze because people have been using
rice water for
extreme hair growth. Now I have my own
personal opinions about the rice water
trend as a whole
and as a result this line but I did go
ahead and purchase these products
because
I'm not very good at performing protein
treatments on my hair so I thought these
products would be a very good way to
incorporate protein into my natural hair
regimen. Now I purchased a total of four
product, I am missing one product out of
the collection and it is the daily shine
mist.
I personally didn't see a need to
purchase the shiny mist anyway so I'm
okay with not having that but I do have
all of the other products that are in
the collection. There is:
a shampoo, a clay masque, a moisturizing
milk and
a split end therapy treatment. I will go
ahead and insert clips of me using these
products
as I have them okay. So the very first
product in this line
is the hydrating shampoo. Again it's
called hydrating and it says,
"our rice water hydrating shampoo is the
first step to clean, healthy hair.
Ingredients such as rice water and yuzu
are the secret to not only moisturizing
the hair
but adding shine and taming split ends.
This shampoo not only smells amazing but
will give your hair the boost it needs
and deserves." Okay and I will tell you
that it does have a
very pleasant scent, it's almost perfumey
but not in a like bad way. Now the claim
here is that it is a hydrating shampoo.
From my experience being natural-- I've
been natural for over 10 years.
One thing I know about hydrating
anything is that hydrating products
usually have some sort of milkiness to
it because the moisturizing properties
usually make it kind of milky.
If you look at this shampoo you see that
it's pretty clear, it's translucent right?
and for me that automatically tells me
that it's not going to be hydrating, it's
not going to be moisturizing and
something I just like to say
is, "if it's clear, it's clarifying. If it's
milky, it's moisturizing."
Again, I didn't just go by the appearance
of this product, I did actually use the
product
and once I rinse it out my hair my hair
dried so quickly. My hair dried within
five minutes. My hair never dries that
fast,
never ever ever which tells me that once
again, this product did not hydrate my
hair.
As far as the claim for being a
hydrating shampoo, I do not agree.
Again I told you that after I rinsed out
that shampoo, I immediately went into
this clay masque by Mielle and this is their
rice water clay mask.
This clay mask claims that is a dual-
purpose mask and it's the perfect
detoxifier for hair and body.
Designed to detoxify by removing
impurities while depositing moisture
back into the hair and skin.
Ingredients such as rice water and yuzu
hydrates both skin
and body. So I look for key terms and the
key term here was "detoxifying."
I personally don't look for anything
to detoxify my hair.
Just a reminder I wasn't personally
looking for detoxifying benefits I just
wanted a protein treatment so that's why
I said what I said.
Smell is very consistent with the
shampoo, really really enjoy the smell.
I used this product once and this is how
much I have left. The consistency of this
product looks like this.
As far as the performance of this
product,
it's supposed to detoxify, I can't speak
to that claim.
It also says it will hydrate skin and
body, once again, can't speak to that
because I will not be using this on my
skin.
So for me personally, I don't really know
what purpose
this product is serving and I guess I
shouldn't have picked it up because I'm
not looking for
a clay to detoxify my hair once again.
When I rinsed this out of my hair I did
not feel like my hair was super
hydrating or anything of the sort.
I felt like I needed to put another
product on to get that moisture back. So
we see a trend here in these products.
Okay next product that I used--
yeah I'm gonna save that one for last.
Okay the next product that
we can go ahead and talk about is the
split end therapy product and this is
what it looks like. Split end therapy it
says,
"it is for daily use. This lightweight
product is designed to strengthen
against split ends.
Ingredients such as rice water and yuzu
both assist with nourishing hair and
work to prevent damage.
Light enough to be used daily." This is
the only product that I feel like I
don't really have a good enough grasp on
it to
come and talk to you about it. Would I
personally put something on my hair
every single day? No, not necessarily but
I will get back to you on like
the split in therapy portion of this
product. I will mention that one of the
things that I wanted to discuss in this
video is that a couple people
on Twitter actually cut themselves on
this product. I'm not
exactly sure they said, somehow the tip.
While they were trying to open the
product they literally
gashed themselves open. That made me a
little skeptical to use this product, a
little afraid to use this product but I
did not have that experience but I just
wanted to bring that to your attention.
Last but certainly not least this is the
product that I really wanted to talk
about
and it is the moisturizing milk. Claims:
"this daily moisturizer is the perfect
solution for bringing
life back to dry thirsty hair. Infused
with key ingredients such as safflower
oil, rice water, yuzu, castor oil, coconut
oil to strengthen and lock in
moisture. Apply a dime size amount from
root to tip on wet or dry hair.
May be used for styling and hydration." We
have to talk about this product because
this is the product that like seals the
deal for how i feel about this entire
collection. I used this on my hair
to prep for my box braids on natural
hair, if you haven't already seen that
video I will link it above
but I went ahead and put my hair in
plaits in order to prep for my distressed
locs
and this was the moisturizing product
that I used in order to prep my hair for
that.
The very next day, my hair was straw.
it was as dry as straw. my hair has
never been
that dry and that worries me because not
only is this called a moisturizing milk,
it also says that you can use this every
single day
and that kind of gets me to the whole-- my
whole opinion of this entire line. Once
again,
rice water very high in amino acids
which are the building blocks of
proteins.
Proteins are not made to be used on your
hair every single day, you will literally
overload your hair. Protein overload, it's
a thing, look it up. It's falling into the
gimmicky nature
of rice water treatments of which people
are using it every single day and
they're seeing this amazing growth but
in a month in
their hair starts falling out because
they have protein overload. Um we
shouldn't be marketing
products that have high protein content
for daily use
and that's why my experience with this
line is overall pretty negative.
I don't have a single product here that
I absolutely love and that's so
disappointing to me
because y'all know I love love
love the Mielle pomegranate and honey line.
Leave-in conditioner? I have two bottles.
I bought another bottle before I was
even halfway done with the other bottle.
That twisting souffle?
Listen i'll ride or die about that
twisting souffle, I swear by that. I
actually had to
follow up this line with that
pomegranate and honey line that I know
works for my hair in order to properly
moisturize my hair. This
this line did not do it at all and
that kind of leads me into some of the
other things that I want to discuss
to you about Mielle Organics. A YouTuber
on here
produced a, I guess , unfavorable review
of the rice water collection. I did watch
her video and I do
maintain a lot of the things that I said
are things that she also said. This
line is not a standalone line. Hey y'all,
realized that my camera cut off so I need
to come back to you and finish my
statement.
I do not believe that the rice water
collection is a cohesive
line in the sense that you do not have
products that will take you from
your wash day all the way to your
styling day. You will need to
supplement with either products from
other Mielle lines like the pomegranate
and honey collection or
other products, whatever you use to style
your hair. I know Mielle can do it
because they produce products that i
consider faves
but they did not do it with that rice
water collection and i'm afraid that it
just feels
it feels almost as gimmicky as like the
rice water trend does.
But you are not supposed to use protein
with that
frequency just because it's going to
make your hair grow. No, the negative
effects definitely will outweigh
you getting a few inches of growth that
you've never seen before okay and I need
us to get away from
being so fixed on length that
we do things that are unhealthy to our
hair but I digress. We're here to talk
about Mielle
and that is what I wanted to say about
the rice water collection. There are some
other comments that
um I need to address. The situation with
Linda Lynn
in which the CEO of Mielle Organics goes
under her comment
section and goes kind of back and forth
with her...
You have certain conversations in a
private setting especially if a customer
is displeased with your product. I don't
know if y'all ever gone on Twitter
before
and tweeted a company and complained.
Guess what the first thing they're gonna
do is?
Move you to the DMs. They're gonna move
you to a private setting where they can
handle your matter
in a private setting, not have that whole
conversation in front of Linda Lynn's
audience
and have that whole conversation as a
brand owner and a CEO
publicly disagreeing with your customer.
Like I don't know what happened to "the
customer as always right."
Yeah, not pleased with the way that that
went down. Definitely not pleased with
the things that
transpired after that with her receiving
phone calls from,
allegedly from Mielle. That's not okay. Not
everyone is going to like your product
um but that doesn't mean that they're
wrong because guess what? They are the
only experts on their hair okay.
I'm glad that people finally got their
anniversary sale
orders in. Their anniversary sale was in
May. People were
in July and still hadn't received
orders from them but I'm glad they
reconciled that. I think they were
dealing with a third party shipping
issue and i just got like an apology
letter in the mail from the ceo
about that situation, so i'm glad that
they at least addressed that.
I'm glad that they're getting it
resolved. One more thing that I do have
to address
is the 10k giveaway that they had. Um
they are doing a giveaway in which
they were looking for a brand
ambassadors I believe and also giving
away ten thousand dollars to
one person who submitted a video and did
all of those things.
Um but there was proof of purchase
required for the video. So they required
people to purchase their products from
third-party retailers, so not from their
Mielle site.
So if you had just purchased from their
anniversary sale, if you had just
purchased from their Juneteenth sale,
those products were not eligible to be
used in the giveaway entry. You had to
then go to a third party like
HEB, like Target like Walmart, wherever
they sell their products. You had to go
there,
buy products there and show proof of
purchase in the
video entry in order to enter the
giveaway.
That seem like a lot. They can't use the
products that they already have
and then you want them to submit videos
that you're going to claim as
intellectual property anyways. That
didn't sit well with me.
I initially like when they mentioned the
the video giveaway
ambassador program I was like "hmm...I
really like their products. Iwould, I
would consider participation."
But not after I read that contract, not
after I read those uh rules and terms of
that giveaway.
No thank you. No ma'am, no ma'am, no sir.
Those are just things that I've been
noticing over the past months that other
people have been talking about and
bringing to your attention. Over the past
months and I do think I have a
responsibility
since I've gotten on here and promoted
their products, used their products, I do
think--
really, Simba? I do think it's important
for me to come and address that.
So I had to go ahead and do that in my
bare face that needs to be moisturized
and you know,
day two wash n go. But nonetheless,
that's all I have to say.
Please let me know your thoughts about
the rice water collection in the comment
section below as well as all the other
things that I've addressed in this video.
Very interested to hear your thoughts.
Mielle, feel free to reach out to me in
a professional manner and I can
definitely help
some conflict resolution, some solution-
based ideas to better connect with
influencers and YouTubers so you can
rebuild that
relationship because as of right now, it
feels very strained.
It makes me not want to feature your
products in videos anymore.
Like honestly I've edited videos
that feature your products and now I
want to edit it out...that's how we're
feeling right now. But yeah ,that's all I
have to say.
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