Nos ingrédients pour cheveux bouclés, frisés et crépus : l'effet silicone sans silicone
What if the most powerful ingredients for your curls were already in your kitchen?
Marketing promises, endless ingredient lists, controversial active ingredients… It’s hard to know what really benefits your curly, coily, or kinky hair.
At Ornela Paris, we have taken on an ambitious challenge: to achieve a silicone effect, without silicone, using everyday natural ingredients and custom-formulated treatments. Here are our choices, our standards, and what each ingredient brings to your curly, coily, and kinky hair.
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From our plates to our hair: natural simplicity as a signature
A well-formulated product doesn't need a multitude of ingredients on its label. We believe the opposite: a few everyday natural ingredients, chosen for their real effectiveness and precisely formulated. That is also why our products are made of 97% to 99.6% naturally derived ingredients — a standard we proudly display.
A flaxseed oil, a mango butter, a cornstarch: names you know, sometimes grown right near us, that you could almost find in your kitchen. This simplicity is our signature. We rely on sourcing everyday ingredients, on raw materials whose effectiveness is proven and which respect your curly, coily, and kinky hair as well as the planet. Beauty designed and made in France.
The silicone effect, without silicone: our obsession
The silicone is everywhere in conventional hair care. And for good reason: it coats, adds shine, and makes detangling easier. But over the long term, it suffocates the hair fiber, builds up, weighs down the curl, and eventually dries it out under an occlusive film.
Our challenge during 2 years of Research & Development: to recreate all the benefits of silicone — softness, shine, slip for detangling, definition — without any silicone, for curly, coily, and kinky hair.
The answer lies in a synergy of ingredients, and especially in one gem: broccoli seed oil. Its coating action is comparable to that of silicones: it provides softness and shine, smooths the cuticle, and offers an anti-frizz effect, without weighing down or suffocating the hair. A 100% natural "silicone-like" effect. Try it, and you'll understand.
💡 Did you know?
All our products in the Ornela Paris range share a fresh floral scent, while the Gelée Idéale is adorned with a delicate rose. Our fragrances are soft and fresh, never leaving a lingering scent in our hair for days.
Our natural ingredients explained
Behind every formula are carefully selected active ingredients—plant oils, butters, and fruit extracts—chosen for what they truly offer every type of curly, coily, and kinky hair.
Flaxseed oil — the repairer
Rich in omega-3 and 6 and vitamin E, flaxseed oil moisturizes, repairs and enhances. It fills the gaps in the fiber, smooths the cuticles, offers an anti-frizz and anti-poof effect and defines curls while bringing softness and shine. Our core repairing active, present in the Immediate Cream Care (which can be used with or without rinsing) and the Intense Mask.
Broccoli oil — the natural silicone effect
Our natural alternative to silicone: smoothing, anti-frizz and anti-poof, with no greasy or weighing-down effect. It gives curly, coily and kinky hair the shine and slip of silicone while respecting the hair fiber.
Mango butter & shea butter — the nourishing ones
Mango butter nourishes, softens and strengthens the cuticle for long-lasting shine, without weighing hair down. Shea butter, in the Intense Mask, deeply nourishes the hair fiber and restores shine and suppleness to even the thirstiest curls, ideal for dry hair.
Hazelnut oil — the regulator
Rich in omega-6 and 9, phytosterols and vitamin E, this nourishing oil feeds without weighing down and strengthens the protective film of the hair. Ideal for light nourishment and a dry touch.
Chestnut — the fortifying one
Chestnut extract tones and adds body to the hair fiber. In the Ideal Jelly, its hydrolyzed version helps naturally with the definition and hold of curls.
Cornstarch — texture and hold
Rich in minerals, cornstarch softens, defines curls and adds volume. It provides that soft, natural hold for curls, without a cardboard effect or stiffness — a valuable asset for curly and coily hair.
The hydrating trio: aloe vera, glycerin & natural sugars
The Heart of the Ideal Jelly: aloe vera replenishes water loss and soothes, glycerin locks in moisture, and the natural sugar complex keeps the hair fiber hydrated for soft, shiny, bouncy curls.
Sea buckthorn oil — radiance
Bursting with vitamins and antioxidants, sea buckthorn oil restores radiance and protects the fiber. A touch of light in the Ideal Jelly.
Lemon & kiwi — purifying freshness
In the Gentle Shampoo, lemon tightens the cuticles, revives the shine and purifies the scalp by regulating sebum; kiwi, rich in vitamins and antioxidants, revitalizes and soothes sensitive scalps.
Arginine — keratin's ally
This amino acid is one of the 18 components of keratin, the hair protein. Particularly valuable for curly and coily hair, which is more fragile, it helps to strengthen the hair fiber.
Gentle, sulfate-free surfactants
Our Delicate Shampoo cleanses using sugar- and coconut-derived cleansing agents, among the gentlest available. A light lather, a gentle cleanse, zero harshness on curls.
💡 Our Philosophy
For the Ornela Paris range, our fragrance is 100% natural and allergen-free, designed to be gentle on even the most sensitive skin. The Gelée Idéale, meanwhile, is scented with natural rose.
The ingredients we refuse
Our formula is also defined by what we will never put in it. Out of principle, and out of respect for your curls and sensitive skin, our charter excludes:
(SLS, SLES)
mineral oils, paraffin, petroleum jelly
And irritating allergens
And of course, no animal testing
2 years of R&D for the perfect synergy
This standard comes at a price: time, trials, compromises. But it is what allowed us to find the perfect blend of active ingredients, the right synergy, the one that delivers a natural silicone effect, without silicone, using simple ingredients to care for curly, coily, and kinky hair.
Everyday ingredients that are as surprising as they are effective. Our touch, our soul, and two years of work in every bottle.
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