Lightweight Curl Creams | Sephora (2025)

It doesn't weigh my hair down or make my curls crunchy like some other creams. The cream has a pleasant scent and the texture is lightweight. ...I absolutely love this lightweight curl cream it doesn’t weight my hair down at all and the scent is light and lovely. ...defined lightweight curls...Lightweight and hydrating!!

What it is: A superbly lightweight version of the fan-favorite Curl Defining Cream that allows you to shape, style, and define curls and waves.

Hair Type: Fine and Medium

Hair Texture: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Frizz
- Hold & Style Extending

What it is: A silky-soft styling cream that contains conditioning and repairing agents for a semi-defined, soft hold with elasticity and pliability.

Hair Type: FIne, Medium, and Thick

Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Hold and Style Extending
- Damage/Split Ends/Breakage

What it is: A protein-enriched styler combining the moisture of a cream with the flexible hold of a gel.

Hair Type: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Frizz
- Hold

Key Benefits:
- Creates Hold
- Defines Curls
- Controls Frizz

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Sweet Almond Oil: Locks in moisture, smooths cuticles, and adds shine.
- Shea Butter: Moisturizes.
- Hemp Seed and Rice Protein Complex: Strengthens and boosts elasticity.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This one-and-done styler d

What it is: A lightweight, moisturizing gel cream—without any crunch—that defines waves and curls while preventing frizz.

Hair Type: Wavy and Curly

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl-Enhancing
- Frizz

Key Benefits:
- Enhances and defines waves and curls
- Controls frizz without the crunch
- Hydrates and provides light hold

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Coconut Oil: Adds luster, shine, and softness.
- Marula Oil: Supports hair growth and manageability while boosting shine.
- Olive Oil: Smooths split ends, supports scalp health, and controls frizz.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and formaldehydes.

What Else Yo

What it is: A curl-defining gel-cream for all curls and coils that combines the hydration properties of a cream with the hold of a gel for boosted curl volume, added shape, and enhanced shine.

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Texture: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Concerns:
- Curl Enhancing
- Dryness
- Frizz

What it is: A high-tech, lightweight styling cream with heat protection that delivers 30 percent thicker-looking hair that lasts all day.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, and Curly

Hair Texture: Fine and Medium

Hair Concerns:
- Heat Protection
- Hold & Style Extending
- Volumizing

Key Benefits:
- Delivers 30 percent thicker-looking hair* (*Vs. untreated)
- Style longevity that lasts all day
- Smooths hair and adds shine

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Time Released Styling Technology: Proprietary, time-released tech for long-lasting body and hold.
- Thickening Molecule: Adds microscopic thickening dots between strands so hair looks and feels fuller.
- Amaranth Peptides: Plump indi

What it is: A pre-styling cream that harnesses Dyson’s Triodetic™ technology to flexibly lock in heat-styled hair and create touchable, long-lasting hold with a lightweight, natural feel.

Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Heat Protection
- Hold & Style Extending
- Shine

Key Benefits:
- Provides 2X longer hold, without the crunch
- Reduces frizz by 50 percent
- Heat protects

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Chitosan: Locks in flexible hold.
- Argan Oil: Reduces frizz.
- Grapeseed Oil: Seals in shine.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phtha

What it is: A lightweight, coconut oil-infused gel-cream that adds piecey texture and shine with a non-crunchy hold, ideal for air-drying loose curls and waves.

Hair Type: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl Enhancing
- Frizz
- Hold

Key Benefits:
- Provides a lightweight, non-crunchy hold
- Adds piecey texture and frizz-free curl definition
- Adds shine and hydration

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Coconut Oil: Nourishes and adds moisture.
- Aloe Vera: Adds hydration and soft, piecey texture.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, and phthalates.

What it is: A cream that instantly gives hair two times frizz reduction and all-day hold and hydration.

Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Dryness
- Color Safe
- Oily Scalp

Key Benefits:
- All-day frizz reduction
- All-day hold and hydration
- Helps maintain an optimal scalp environment

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, phthalates, and mineral oil. It is also cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This cream is infused with royal sugar kelp, Pacific sea kelp, and green microalgae. It contains proprietary postbiotic lactobacillus ferment and promotes an optimal scalp environment wit

What it is: A lightweight leave-in conditioner that enhances curl texture and hydrates the hair without weighing it down.

Hair Type: Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Texture: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Concerns:
- Curl Enhancing
- Dryness
- Frizz

Key Benefits:
- Helps Clump Waves and Curls
- Preps Hair for Styling Products
- Controls Frizz

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Babassu: Seals moisture into the hair shaft and smooths down cuticles.
- Murumuru: Moisturizes.
- Hyaluronic Acid: Delivers moisture without weighing the hair down.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, mineral oil, and sulfates SLS & SLES. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-fre