Coffee,Tea,ACV,AVJ & Ayurvedic Challenge 2013

Saludable84 said:
Got some coconut milk powder at the airport. Cant wait to try it. Will get to it sometime this week maybe. We're you ladies diluting it with water and then adding it before your DC?

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Saludable84
I added the milk to my tea rinse until I got the powder. Now I mix the straight powder into my ayurvedic and DIY DCs :lick:
 
Pre-pooing overnight with hair trigger in the scalp and grapeseed oil on the length. Will rinse with leftover tea blend of black tea, hibiscus, nettle and horsetail from Friday's henna treat.
Have some neem oil, trying to figure out how to use it, very strong smelling.
 
Moisturized with Blue Roze coco leave-in & KeraVeda Brahmi oil on scalp..Sealed with Lace Naturals more moisture cream...

*Blue Roze-Coco leave-in,so nice & silky..Contains Amla/Brahmi & coconut milk...Thin milky lotion,in a spray bottle,I took the top off & poured it in my hand.

Happy Hair Growing!
 
Saludable84 I do like mshoneyfly and add the powder/milk to my rinses:lick:

DarkJoy so far on my list:
Neem
Tulsi
Reetha
Brahmi
Til (sesame)
Baheda
Piyaz (onion)
Kuari (Aloe Vera)
Triphala

I don't remember what most of these are for but I got them off of some website:look:
I am so excited and if I don't get lucky thursday I have another chance as next week I'm doing a Habitant for Humanity Build in an town that has a high indian population so I must be able to get lucky there too:yep: And now I have the tip of using the sanskrit:yay:

OH and it's a sign...I was in the grocery store this morning and there was an entire section FULL of dabur products..amla oil, vatika etc. Their products are full of mineral oil and such so I didn't touch them BUT I was intrigued:yep:
 
What's a good intro moisturizing, ayurvedic item? I've been on "team too much" before and just want to take it slow.
 
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MileHighDiva From my very first use of tea's (that first blend had hibiscus, marshmallow root, probably green and I'm not sure what else), my hair fall has drastically reduced. Bhringaraj alone hasn't reduced my shedding (as I brought it into the mix well after others) but I do find that it has increased the moisturizing effect of my tea blend.
 
MileHighDiva, non-ayurvedic wise, nettle tea was the first tea I rinsed with. I had almost zero fall after that, which is why it's in my everything. Shikakai seems to be good for this too. Not as good a the nettle (for me) tho.

Nix08, I secretly use the Dabur Jasmine Oil. Yes, it has mineral oil. I use it as a pre-poo tho for an hour a cpl times a week and it works really nice when combined with the V05 cowash. I mean, why not? I wash it out pretty quick. ANd hell, I already use grease, a big fat LHCF nono. But my hurr says diff. This past 2 months, I have not protective styled and my hair is retaining and healthy almost better than it was in crochets for 3 months!

There is NO jasmine in that oil btw :look: But I think my hair likes the cottonseed and soybean in it. I might just mixtress that myself and use my own jasmine oil to scent.
 
Just bought this cute little number off ebay. I kept breaking tea balls or destroying them in the garbage disposal :lol:. This should solve that. Also FINALLY ordered 2oz of bamboo since my hair, nails, and skin loved it both on the hair and internally.

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mshoneyfly, I cowashed tonight and applied tea as my final rinse. I did not rinse the tea out. During the week when I cowash I don't DC. However, on the weekends I will do a DC and apply tea as the final rinse.
 
@mshoneyfly it's a tea brewer thinggie for loose leaf. Matter of fact it arrived just after that last post. Ordered last week. Tea in a removable basket on top, pour hot water over. If youre drinking you can drink from the thermos. I'll use for long brews and dilute in the spritzer.

Look, just brewed rose petals to drink. :-)

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I need to devise a cleansing brew for when the oil becomes too much.

I think mustard oil may be irritating to my scalp but the above refresher brew instantly makes it feel better. So I'll keep using the mustard oil until I can confirm that it's no good and keep the above brew consistent:yep:
 
Nix08 said:
I need to devise a cleansing brew for when the oil becomes too much.

I think mustard oil may be irritating to my scalp but the above refresher brew instantly makes it feel better. So I'll keep using the mustard oil until I can confirm that it's no good and keep the above brew consistent:yep:
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It might be the erucic acid that is prevalent in mustard seed that is irritating your scalp. Do you blend the mustard oil or use it straight?

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Finally rinsed out my prepoo last night. Added a marine mud treatment to the prepoo for an extra couple of hours, cowashed it out and did a final rinse with the leftover tea mix from my henna on Friday.
 
Tried the coconut milk powder in my coffee rinse. Made my hair a little hard. Have conditioner in now so we will see how this goes.

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DarkJoy said:
Just bought this cute little number off ebay. I kept breaking tea balls or destroying them in the garbage disposal :lol:. This should solve that. Also FINALLY ordered 2oz of bamboo since my hair, nails, and skin loved it both on the hair and internally.

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I like that. I think I'm going to look for something similar around town :yep:
 
I have been reading where people are saying coffee and tea make their hair hard. It always feels hard for me immediately when I pour it on. But when I put my DC on top, it is immediately super slippy. I thought that was what was supposed to happen...no? I tea rinse weekly with black and rooibos and peppermint tea. I love the color and it seems to help with shedding. I always have some, but not massive amounts. So, what's normal?
 
It never occured to me to blend it @Wenbev you may be on to something:yep: I'll try mixing it with sesame or almond oil:yep:

Saludable84, it's amazing how things work differently on different people. I wait until I'm several weeks post to start using coconut milk/powder as it really softens my ng. Whereas coconut oil is no good for my hair and I've recently discovered that it's also no good for my skin....it's lovely for oil pulling though (that's the ayurvedic tie in:giggle:)
 
I'm really loving this tea brew thinggie. Filled the basket with oolong and schlepped it to work. Will order another for my hair. There is also a 13oz steel model but I like the 9oz pretty glass.

On a rinsing note, midweek cowashing tonight, followed by a rooibos & oolong only rinse under the SM Strengthening DC. Then silk tea spritz for my leave in and seal.
 
Doing a CAT
Coffee (Columbian under Marie Dean's Coffee & Kokum DC'er)
ACV Rinse (MOP Burdock Root Crème Rinse)
Tea (with my Leave-In & a dab of Oil)

I did a Pre-Rx with Nature's Ego Avocado DC'er which has: Neem, Bramhi, Cassia, Amala
 
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