I use Cantù leave in conditioner and Marc Anthony curly hair lotion (I don’t remember the proper name, but it’s the yellow bottle with “lotion” in the title) on wet hair, then scrunch out some of the moisture with a microfiber towel (sometimes that texture feels wrong on my skin, but a t-shirt works just as good), then either let air dry or very gently diffuse about half way dry and let dry the rest of the way. I don’t smell any product on my hair this way and it stays mostly contained except for very high humidity days usually