Natural Hair Care Ideas

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Permalink Reply by Kim Caldwell on August 1, 2008 at 9:31pm

When raw my hair always looks great and I really do not need to wash it much. It is weird. It is like the natural oils just make it look better. I do not tell anyone this as they might think it is strange. When I used to eat cooked I had to wash it all the time and it never looked anywhere as good as it does now.
I do love to stand in the rain. Rainwater makes it look great.

BLESSING KIM

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Permalink Reply by MandalaMama on June 14, 2008 at 3:24am

Hi,
a while ago I did the "no-poo" thing where all I used was vinegar and baking soda with a little lavender oil. You have to play around with the ingredients a bit, but my hair was so healthy and after the first couple of weeks of looking like I had stuck my head in a bucket of oil, it was great.

I would wet it, put a little baking soda in, rinse with diluted apple cider vinegar and put a little coconut oil mixed with lavender on the ends. Worked a treat!

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Permalink Reply by Anabrese on June 14, 2008 at 4:15am

yeah, that's funny, you do get the 'greased lightnin' look when you use the oil until you give it a good wash again. But, I think it's worth it as long as you don't have any socials planned!

Lulu, that's true. It's the cooked fats that really leak out of the body when cooked fooders perspire and it's not very nice.

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on June 14, 2008 at 5:33am

I think my body just makes bad fats when I eat cooked, even if I'm not eating fats, but more than that, the energies are so different between raw and cooked food, and the energies 'good or bad' even affect my hair.

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Permalink Reply by The Raw Greek on June 14, 2008 at 5:21am

Hi Guys,
I have been personally researching this for a while. I tried the baking soda and vinegar thing and found it just matted my hair up too much (i have thick, curly hair) and my bf told me i stank of vinegar. I probably should have perservered with it for a while but i didn't like my BF's reaction. Anyway i made a body wash which i now also use as a shampoo and face wash and that seems to do the trick, there are no suds, but the results are clean, nice smelling hair and body. The recipe is:
• 1/4 cup of water
• 1/2 tsp cornstarch
• 1/2 tsp honey
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp aloe Vera gel
• 2-4 drops each of lemon and orange Essential oil
After washing my hair i then use a couple of tiny drops of olive oil (almond oil is also good) scrunched throughout my hair to make my curls shiny, i have been doing this for years. It works a treat. I now only wash my hair once ot twice a week.
Lots of live
Gina

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on June 14, 2008 at 5:35am

Thank you, I love the smells of citrus essential oils. I think I'll try your recipe.

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Permalink Reply by The Raw Greek on June 14, 2008 at 6:24am

Hi All,
I forgot to mention why you should use each ingredient.
Aloe Vera contains saponins which is a surfactant and has properties that enable it to attract dirt and oil from the skin.
Honey contains humectants which attracts moisture from the air and transfer it to the skin
Cornstarch is used as a natural thickening agent.
Sea salt is used as a mild exfoliating agent to slough off dead skin.
Lemon and orange essential oils are natural preservatives and antiseptics and smell lovely.
Let me know how you all get on.
xxx

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Permalink Reply by The Raw Greek on August 5, 2008 at 2:24pm

Hi Kayell,
You are right it doesn't last very long, a week at the most. But the recipe is only enough for 2-3 washes, maybe less because it can be used as a body wash too.
Good luck
Gina

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