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Right now I am shampooing my hair alternating between Suave Shampoo and Tea Tree Shampoo with conditioner....
After I wash I towel dry and apply extra virgin olive oil for moisture....or this wonderful Liquid Shea Butter Hair Treatment my friends Richard and his wife and partner Marilyn of Rocky Mountain Soap Factory make. The bottle will last for months because you only need to use a small amount to accomplish moisturizing...I bought my bottle in March and am just now getting near the end of it....This stuff is da bomb!!! It softens your hair... and because it's a liquid it doesn't cause build up...Richard is the person who taught me and my sister/friend Lawana how to make soap and body cream!! If you get the chance to check out his natural products please do...they are luscious..for real....and this is from someone who plans to make their OWN products...but I really gotta give credit where it's due...ya know.....
I am only washing my hair every two weeks now....I don't know why....no reason in particular...but it's doing fine...
I use ORS Hair Mayo once a month now for deep down and dirty serious conditoning ....and a leave in liquid conditioner or leave in cream conditioner everytime...this is because the climate is so extremely dry here...I do hot olive oil treatments bi-monthly...
I have made a great spritz that I use almost daily, recipe courtesy of Detrel of Locluvers Yahoo Group....well...actually when I know I am going to be out of the house for more than a few minutes...remember.. I am retired....lol....Yayyyyy.....
I have not been latch-hooking my new growth...I just want to see what will happen, ya know....When I find one of the loc roots is thinned I tree it to the nearest loc...using the latch-hook... at the roots only...I will probably start latch-hooking again soon...just want to see what happens without it...that's all....I am still an advocate of using this method...especially if you have suffered from "hand in loc disease" ...lol....
I roll my hair when I shampoo it if I want to....using some new rollers I bought... they are made with cloth on the outside and a foam insert inside...so soft you can sleep in them and they protect your loc ends from damage with the cloth...I roll very loosely using plain distilled water or regular water if I am out of distilled... and with the maintaince I am now using the curls fall out much slower so they last two weeks.....when I don't curl I just let them hang.....it's all good one way or the other.....
Even though I can see that my hair has grown a great deal I am still always surprised that it hasn't grown MORE....my hair USED to grow about 1/2 inch each month when it was relaxed...now it doesn't...all I can figure is it has to do with my hormones...or rather lack of....lol....being menopausal has really been an eye opener for me....one of the main things I have learned over the last few years about hair growth and menopause is this.... the same way pregnant women's hair grows quickly with the extra hormones they have due to the pregnancy, the lack of estrogen causes the OPPOSITE reaction with menopause...sigh...but it's still all good, ya know....just a part of being a woman....lol....
I am going to post some of De's great recipes for natural ingredient spritz's in the next few days if she gives me her permission....aiight????.....
Thank you God for giving me another day of life....AMEN..... |
