Mielle Organics Kalahari Melon & Aloe Vera Deep Hydration 2-Minute Deep Conditioner
by Mielle Organics · hair_care
Editor's Take
Strong on slip and cushion without silicones, but the clean halo gets dinged by quats and fragrance hiding under the plant-oil story.
Four-pillar formula scores
- Efficacy: 8.1 / 10
- Modern Tech: 7.2 / 10
- Clean Beauty: 4.8 / 10
- Sustainability: 7.5 / 10
The Verdict
On hair, this is the good kind of rich: Olive and Coconut oils bring cushion, while bio-based slip ingredients help it detangle without the usual silicone coating. The downside is the less glamorous back-counter stuff, with Behentrimonium Chloride, extra quats, phenoxyethanol, and undisclosed fragrance keeping it out of stricter clean territory. Sustainability is better than average for a rinse-off mask because the move away from silicones matters, though the petrochemical pieces have not disappeared. A strong 2-minute conditioner for softness and slip, not a clean-beauty purist's jar.
Full INCI list
Water, Glycerin, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Butylene Glycol, Cetyl Alcohol, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Stearyl Alcohol, Behentrimonium Chloride, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Polycitronellol, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance, Panthenol, Citrullus Lanatus (Watermelon) Seed Oil, Polyquaternium-37, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Cetrimonium Chloride, Capryloyl Glycerin/Sebacic Acid Copolymer, Diheptyl Succinate, Polycitronellol Acetate, Polyquaternium-7, Undecane, Squalane, Linum Usitatissimum (Linseed) Seed Oil, Ethylhexylglycerin, Crambe Abyssinica Seed Oil, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Citric Acid, PPG-1 Trideceth-6, Aminomethyl Propanol, Tridecane, Hyaluronic Acid, Honey, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Liquid Endosperm\, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Lysate Filtrate, Althaea Officinalis Root Extract, Ulmus Fulva Bark Extract, Olus Oil. \ Coconut Water