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@Saludable84 deets please madam! Did you use the recipe on her website? How is it?? :bookworm:

Eta: ok I see on her website the stew seems easy enough to replicate. I really want to make the deep conditioner. Here's the recipe:
shea butter
Olive oil
honey
rosemary tea
xanthum gum
essential oil blend

Seems easy as well.
 
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beauti said:
@Saludable84 deets please madam! Did you use the recipe on her website? How is it?? :bookworm:

Eta: ok I see on her website the stew seems easy enough to replicate. I really want to make the deep conditioner. Here's the recipe:
shea butter
Olive oil
honey
rosemary tea
xanthum gum
essential oil blend

Seems easy as well.
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No. But it looks like a simple cassia treatment. I used:
Water
Wheat germ
Cassia
Neem oil
Amla Powder
Brahmi Powder
Peppermint EO

I was not paying all that money for stuff I had in the house.
 
She had a giveaway during the summer and I was one of the winners. I got to choose three products. I received the Hair Stew, DC, and shampoo bar. I haven’t used the Hair Stew yet, I kept it in the fridge but I plan to pre poo with it.

I do like the shampoo bar even though I prefer liquid shampoo, but it’s a good alternative because it suds and doesn’t strip the hair. I’ve used the DC a couple of times. It works better as a pre poo/detangler for me since it’s pretty oily.
 
flyygirlll2 said:
She had a giveaway during the summer and I was one of the winners. I got to choose three products. I received the Hair Stew, DC, and shampoo bar. I haven’t used the Hair Stew yet, I kept it in the fridge but I plan to pre poo with it.

I do like the shampoo bar even though I prefer liquid shampoo, but it’s a good alternative because it suds and doesn’t strip the hair. I’ve used the DC a couple of times. It works better as a pre poo/detangler for me since it’s pretty oily.
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Wow! Congrats!

I can't wait to hear your review of the hair stew!
 
Sitting with my homemade concoction. The texture was like a whipped butter and not the runny/goopy texture hers is. Will update when I rinse.

Update: My hair feels really nice. It does feel a little stiff, but moisturized at the same time, if that makes sense. I didn't use any moisturizer or leave-in besides flaxseed gel to two strand twist with. My curls were beautifully plump and clumped. So far, I like it. I will update again after a month of using these techniques.
 
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beauti said:
@Saludable84 deets please madam! Did you use the recipe on her website? How is it?? :bookworm:

Eta: ok I see on her website the stew seems easy enough to replicate. I really want to make the deep conditioner. Here's the recipe:
shea butter
Olive oil
honey
rosemary tea
xanthum gum
essential oil blend

Seems easy as well.
Click to expand...
Saludable84 said:
No. But it looks like a simple cassia treatment. I used:
Water
Wheat germ
Cassia
Neem oil
Amla Powder
Brahmi Powder
Peppermint EO

I was not paying all that money for stuff I had in the house.
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Okay I'm doing sort of a combination of these two recipes without the Xanthum Gum most likely. I don't really want the mix too thick. I'll see how it goes when I have an opportunity to give this a try.
 
I reused her shampoo bar again the other day, and it's amazing.

Amazing!

I was able to skip prepoo and FULLY detangle my hair with it. After predetangling and finger detanglingling with it, my KareCo Tangle Buster Brush slid right through.

After rinse out, my hair felt strong and hydrated AND moisturized, and it was just hanging with all sorts of extra hang time.

I reordered 2 shampoo bars a few days ago.
 
I want to try her shampoo bar, but I'm curious about the ingredients.

Her site says


**NOTE: SHAMPOO BARS DO NOT CONTAIN LYE - THESE BARS ARE MADE THE OLD FASHIONED WAY AND HAVE BEEN MADE THIS WAY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.


What does this even mean? I'm not a soap maker, but I thought that lye was needed make soap?

Some time ago, I tried using her online chat to ask. The message was picked up, but she never replied.
 
Okay, the shipping SLA is 7-12 business days. It should ship by the 15th. If I don’t receive a shipping notification I’ll reach out then.
 
snoop said:
I want to try her shampoo bar, but I'm curious about the ingredients.

Her site says


**NOTE: SHAMPOO BARS DO NOT CONTAIN LYE - THESE BARS ARE MADE THE OLD FASHIONED WAY AND HAVE BEEN MADE THIS WAY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.


What does this even mean? I'm not a soap maker, but I thought that lye was needed make soap?

Some time ago, I tried using her online chat to ask. The message was picked up, but she never replied.
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Some people use soap bases/melt and pour soap. Those mixtures contain lye but keep them from having to handle the raw lye.
 
snoop said:
Yeah, but that isn't a method that's thousands of years old. (At least I don't think so...)
:look:
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She might be using the wood ash method. I have heard of it before and I believe it may take the place of lye. That one is older. some people call the base wood ash makes, lye. Others say it is similar to lye due to its alkalinity.
 
Lylddlebit said:
She might be using the wood ash method. I have heard of it before and I believe it may take the place of lye. That one is older. some people call the base wood ash makes, lye. Others say it is similar to lye due to its alkalinity.
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Thanks! I just wonder why she keeps that hidden. I don't think it's much to ask what's in someone's products if I'm using them (or in my case, want to). I've heard good things so maybe I'll stick it up and try it.
 
I received my two items I ordered. the Leave in soft conditioner and the Hair o matic mix.

The bottles both say keep refrigerated. I just checked the website, and it says keep refrigerated for longer storage.
 
May mom and I used to make soap as a hobby growing up. You make soap through a chemical reaction requiring a diluted lye solution and oil. A properly formulated soap recipe uses more fat than is required for the chemical reaction. you can add significantly more fat for "superfatting" for luxury/ more expensive soaps. Alternatively, you can have just slightly more fat for a margin of error. The reaction that converts raw ingredients into the soap can take days or weeks depending on whether the soap is made using a hot method or cold method.

The type of oil used changes the quality of the soap's foaming action. For instance, castile soap is made with olive oil and produces a specific time of foam. Palm oil makes a "harder" bar of soap helping it last longer. Shea butter makes a soap that has smaller denser foam (almost creamy) and the excess shea butter makes the cleaning process more moisturizing.

There are different legal ways to list ingredients for soap. One is by listing ingredients that were initially added the other is a list of the ingredients present in the final product. Many soap-based products don't list lye because it should no longer be present in the final product.
 
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