Sunday, May 16, 2010

Hair care

For some reason my hair seems to enjoy more natural or enriched products then the regular products I buy in a store. I have curly hair, which needs lots of care, which might seem to be news to many of you with straight hair.
Yes, although curly hair looks always curly and beautiful, it requires lots of care. I have never seen anyone with straight hair having to dedicate a day of the week exclusively for hair care ... which was normal in my surrounding growing up. I remember my grandma running behind me with a pot of warm oil to pour on my hair to moisturize it. I also remember listening to statements like "to be beautiful there most be suffering" ... I very much disagree with this statement, we are beautiful because we are beautiful. (full stop). I still like to do something to my hair and skin every once in a while but it is more for the joy of it and the blessing of sitting down for a bit and relax and as a plus enriching my hair and skin.

My conditioner was 1/4 full, it seems as it was time to go and buy a new one. hmmmm. To be honest I rather stretch it by enriching it than buying something that promises something that would never do! This time, I decided to use aloe as the main ingredient. I got my homemade aloe gel and opened the fridge to see what else was there to use, think enrich, enrich, fat, moist, nutrients ...

1/4 full cream conditioner

Found some vitamin C, squeeze it with a spoon to mix better with the aloe gel

After you pour the squeezed vitamin C, add some vitamin E, I always buy the soft capsules, I like to enrich about anything with it and these ones are easy to pinch with a needle for different use

There you go, alone this mixture of aloe with vitamin C and E is powerful. You can use it on the skin or on your hair. It is RICH!. Aloe can be itchy on the skin and when you add vitamin C even more. I use this mixture to any weird thing I find on my kids skin. It kills it. I fought a bacteria on one of my daughter for months, I used anything the doctor told me, expensive creams, antibiotics, etc... the bacteria, kept on coming back. It was annoying. I began to put aloe on it and eventually aloe with vitamin C and it was gone.
Mix well

another powerful ingredient for your hair is egg. Don't worry about the smell, the end result won't smell like egg at all. I also add some apple vinegar, which is said to make your hair shine!

I thought it was a bit to liquid, so I added 2 spoons of yogurt to thicken it a bit.

Mix well. Notice it is still liquid, but a little thicker then before. Remember we will add this mixture to the 1/4 full cream conditioner we bought in the store. Begin to add half of this mixture to it and mix well.

In my opinion the consistency was still good enough to add the rest of the mixture. Mix well

Yeah! now I have a full cream conditioner!. I used it already and my hair was thankful!
If you don't have the possibility to find aloe, you can use heavy cream, and add a little bit of oil to it, you can add the other ingredients as well. There are unending possibilities! begin to play and have fun, eventually you will find the ideal recipe your hair likes the most!

Ingredients
1/2 full or 1/4 full Cream conditioner, any kind. I try to get the one that has the most moisturizing description. Please, it doesn't have to be the most expensive, this is only the base for all the goodness you will add to it yourself. It can be cheap, it most be cheap! (you can enriching right after you bought it and save the half for later, I always use a bit from it and then enrich it, it is up to you)
homemade aloe gel (most not be a specific amount)
Vitamin C ( I used 3000 mg)
Vitamin E ( I used 5 400 mg)
1 egg
1 spoon Apple Vinegar
2 spoon yogurt

Use as normal. After some days it might smell like medicine, those are the vitamins, no worries!

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