Curl Rehab

Oh, baby give me one more chance

Won’t you please let me

back in your heart?

Hello y’all. Let me just tell y’all about how gracious I am, and how some of these products out here just take advantage of me. I have a couple products that just didn’t work for my hair. It happens, I ain’t mad. The question is, what do you do with them? Give them away? Stick them in the cabinet? Apparently, I need to just throw mine out, because I tend to get bored and try to give them another chance. I just want to try to make it work, you know?

Anyway, you may have read my review on the My Honey Child Honey Nut Cleanser and Olive You deep conditioner. I was sad. Because after all the great reviews I read about it, it left my hair a mess! After one traumatizing use, I put it deep in the back of my closet with the other products that got ‘hidden’ at the beginning of Ayurvedic Challenge 2012.

Enter boredom. The Ayurvedic regimen I have is easy, predictable, effective, and just a bit boring. So I got restless. It was either try a new product, or cut off all my heat damage. I chose the less drastic option. Since I wanted to still be somewhat consistent with my Ayurvedic Challenge, I looked for any all-natural products I had, and what did I find? Ahh, you guessed it.

I thought that since I’ve been using an all-natural regimen for the past three months, the product would work differently than before. I was wrong.

Just like last time, the cleanser left my hair SO tangled! Like, bird’s nest tangled. I was really careful to wash my hair in twists and everything. A comb was completely out of the question once I finished that wash.

After the wash. -____________-

 So, what do I do when a shampoo does me wrong? I reach for the conditioner! Aaaannnndddd… The conditioner didn’t help. *SIGH* I had to fix the dc by adding honey and olive oil to it. It was still a task to detangle, even after the extra ‘help’.

Again, I REALLY wanted this to work out. So I thought, ‘If I can’t use this conditioner as a dc, maybe I can make it work as a leave-in’. (At this point, I was clearly reaching. smh). So I made a Kimmaytube leave-in recipe with the conditioner. I added aloe vera juice, castor oil, olive oil, and rosemary and lavender essential oils. I added the mix to soaking wet hair, and put in two frenchbraids.

This was my first time trying french braids in YEARS, and I loved the result! The leave-in concoction didn’t do much by way of slip, but it did make my hair shiny and very soft once dry.

Suffice it to say, I won’t be trying these products again. I realize that the issue with the cleanser was that it was a castile soap base. Castile soap, due to it’s high pH, does nothing but tangle my hair and make it rough! I’m not sure what was up the the conditioner. Maybe it’s just one of those things that works for others, and not for me.

Now I’m also dealing with an itchy scalp from product buildup. I can’t WAIT to get back to my ‘boring’ ayurvedic regimen! Next time I want to experiment, I’ll pick up a new herbal powder at the market or something.

I definitely learned my lesson with that one! What do you all do with your ‘wack’ products?