“i really want to love shea butter but it sits on top of my hair and makes it so heavy and waxy. it completely ruins my hair styles and the style i had planned then turns into a bun until i can wash my hair again. what’s going on?” – grace (not pictured)
when i first went natural, i flocked to products like shea butter because it was touted as the holy grail product that all naturals should own. like you i wanted it to work and like you, it left my fine and coarse strands coated and heavy – it was like a dry, heavy looking jerri curl. not cute. but that was back then, when i knew little about natural hair in comparison to now.
what’s happening to you is common and there is an easy work-around, you just need to know what you are working around first which leads me to my point, did you know that shea butter is the [click to continue…]
shea butter is all the rage amongst a lot of naturals because of its diversity and effectiveness on natural hair. whether your hair is fine, coarse, kinky or curly, you may find that shea butter is a staple that you need in your hair routine.
i, personally, do not like to use shea butter on my natural hair alone and try to avoid it at all costs. because it acts like a fat, it coats my hair leaving it hard and waxy. to combat this, i always mix my shea butter with other ingredients to make the butter softer and easier to use without all of the stickiness and in the end, i’m left with a fabulous sweet vanilla shea hair custard.
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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…]
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i like this cantu shea butter leave-in conditioning repair cream. i’ve been using it for about four years and though i don’t use it as much as i used to when i first discovered it, it was one of my first staple product that i continue to recommend to lots of naturals looking to detangle with a conditioner that provides super slip, is creamy and a leave-in.
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