one of the things i love most about being natural is trying out products. in addition to learning about healthy hair practices, putting product on is a gem for me. i love the smells, textures and all of it. but what i love the most is doing me; finding what works for me and her – her being my hair. i’m still working on a name for her. anyway, playing with products gives me the opportunity to find out what she likes and what she does not like because she tells me. i can hear her talk. i’m a hair whisperer.
she does not like much but what’s surprising is that she likes lots of things many other naturals jump on bandwagons to not like (even if they have not tried it for themselves) and or others just don’t like it just because it does not work on their hair. take fellow-natural krissy for example. recently she was telling me that her [click to continue…]
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by now, you all know how i feel about shampoo. for me, it’s more like sham”boo”, but it’s something that i have to use since i co-wash twice a month so i have to clarify my hair. because i have to shampoo, it’s important to me to find clean rinsing shampoo that is also gentle on my hair. most shampoos are too stripping and too harsh on my hair and cause my kinks to curl up on themselves and feel way too stripped and rough.
in my search for that perfect shampoo for my routine, i picked up this everyday shea vanilla mint shampoo while in whole foods a little over a month ago. for $10 i could have 32oz of shea butter shampoo. not bad, not bad at all, and this shampoo is not bad either!
the thing that drew me to this shampoo was the [click to continue…]
has your back turned into pimple city? if so, then yes they probably are. but don’t fret, you can more than likely fix this simple problem by switching your shower routine – wash your hair first and then bathe.
i’d never really thought about this until i found myself also showering and then washing my hair. i actually did this only twice but my back broke out something terrible. i have sensitive skin so anything left on it that’s not supposed to be there and it gets very angry with me.
when i racked my brain to try to figure out what the cause could be; since i had not changed my shampoo or conditioner or routine at all really, the next time i showered and washed my hair i scrutinized my routine and there it was, i’d accidentally switched out what i normally do – wash my hair first and then bathe!
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not all of us love traditional shampoo and some of us can’t even get with the sls free products that are flooding the shampoo market. but if you want to clarify your kinky or curly natural hair and get a good old fashioned washing, you can make your own quick and easy clarifying natural shampoo and here’s how. [click to continue…]
…but can’t really, because i *kinda know* i still need it. kinda know as in, i have to clarify my hair because i will NOT deal with buildup.
i don’t like to wash my hair. there i said it. got that off my chest. whew! and it feels so much better!
since going natural, washing my hair is hades – but only when i use shampoo. since i co-wash with conditioner every other week to every week (depending on my workout schedule) i only use shampoo once a month to two months to clarify my hair.
i dread it each time. and though i use sulfate free products, i just don’t like the strippy feeling i’m left with in addition to the tangle – slight, but still tangles. i’m sure many of you can agree or at least relate to that.
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