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INCREASING THE MOISTURIZING POWER OF CONDITIONERIn this post on basic conditioner recipes, Kate asks: I’ve been making your Basic Rinse Off Conditioner (Daily version with 4% BTMS-50, 2% Cetyl and 92.5% Water) for two months now and i like it! But I would like to know: what’s your opinion about adding 5% oil and reduce water...
In this post on making conditioner for newbie Tuesday, Rosi asks: Humectant is not good for frizzy hair, but is good for dry hair. Is there a difference? To me frizziness and dryness walk hand in hand, so how do I know and if I have both, use or not use humectant. Sorry I don’t...
Anonymous asks in this post: I was wondering if there might be any science to back up using a vinegar rinse? I agree that using baking soda to wash hair is a terrible idea, but I have found a vinegar rinse (after shampooing, before conditioning) invaluable. My hair is much smoother and more manageable. I...
It seems that every hair based community I visit and all the blogs touting the no shampoo, baking soda, or conditioner washing programs talk about avoiding build up…but what exactly is build up? Some of this is originally from this post on build up from May 22, 2010…Build-up doesn’t have a specific definition, but it’s understood to...
Take a look at your local drug store’s shampoo aisle and try to find something just for oily hair. You can’t. It’s all for oily roots, dry ends. And this actually makes some kind of sense. If you have longish hair, your ends will be less healthy than the roots because they have been subjected...