Coffee,Tea,ACV,AVJ & Ayurvedic Challenge 2013

biancaelyse said:
@DarkJoy

This happened to me also. I was a 3C and now I am a 3B/3A. My hair jas gone from small pencil diameter curls to fat crayon sized curls.

I apply my powders full strength as a paste mixed with water or acv
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biancaelyse thanks for responding! The bulk of my curls are the diameter of a coffee stirer if not tighter. You can imagine how difficult that makes retention and just combing. ANY manipulation = hair loss. Even just washing. I also do the powders at full strength plus the ACV :) Are you happy with the new curls?
Nix08 said:
@DarkJoy I'm planning to reduce my use of amla (except in thriphala, nupur henna where it's already mixed in) and see if it makes a difference. I like it's effects but it's a very fine line between good and bad for my hair. Maybe once a month or something I'll use it.

Is it wrong that I'm excited to get home and finish double broiling my ayurvedic oil blend:look:

Maybe I'll make amla oil:look:
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It aint wrong Nix08! LOL! I cant wait to get home and mix up that gallon of tea for this weekend and next week :giggle:
kxlot79 said:
@DarkJoy

My hair is fine (about a third the diameter of a piece of thread in most places) but dense and tightly curly: teeny pen spring curls. And I have normal porosity.
I've only applied my ayurvedic powders full strength and I've never used neem except when it's pre-mixed in something commercial. I think the SM yellow label has it as an ingredient and I love that stuff.
I've heard of some ladies who don't see curl pattern changes for years of consistent use, which makes me think it's still a possibility.

Did/Do you use ayurvedic powders with the intention of loosening your curl or was that a happy accident and now you're just questing for uniformity?
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I think we have similar curl tightness KLOx79. The curl loosening was a happy accident and I want it more uniform. Are you trying to loosen?
 
@DarkJoy My hair is healthy and sheds very little so I am happy with that. Also, my hair hangs longer because I have less shrinkage and frizz so overall there have been more benefits.

My hair hangs longer and is less bushy right now.

I know from experience that when I stop using the ayurvedic powders, my hair will revert to the tighter curls so I can always go back.
 
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faithVA for the spritzers I keep out of the fridge I just use a lot of EO. Serves as a good enough natural preservative to last a week if ambient temperature isn't too hot. Last winter I was getting ~10days as the ambient temp stayed pretty cool indoors.
 
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DarkJoy[/USER];19041583]faithVA for the spritzers I keep out of the fridge I just use a lot of EO. Serves as a good enough natural preservative to last a week if ambient temperature isn't too hot. Last winter I was getting ~10days as the ambient temp stayed pretty cool indoors.
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Thanks. Cool. So maybe like 10 drops per 4 oz? Would that be enough?
 
Roughly, yes faithVA. I think I put 10+ drops (depending on how strong I want the 'flavor') and plus I mix n match to make interesting scents :lol: I lose track of how much after a while:look:
 
DarkJoy Yes,Amla powder helps to bring your curl pattern back,but it's very drying,so I always up my moisture...The Brahmi,fenugreek,Rhassoul is great for full/full hair..

Happy Hair Growing!
 
DarkJoy

I didn't really believe in curl loosening from henna until recently, so no I wasn't trying for that. I've read that for some ladies the changes in curl pattern are permanent but for others just semi-permanent.
I'd only be nervous with uneven pattern or multi-texture, since my hair is pretty amazingly uniform texture-wise.
Did you have multi-texture before ayurveda? I haven't read about too many people with a uniform texture.
 
Did a cassia this afternoon mixed with some eo's and some other oils and condish I threw in there, my hair came out feeling thicker and stronger. I hope it lasts. I'm going to try to use my ayurvedic powders more often.
 
Finally for my hair Veda bringraj oil with Amla and that other good stuff. Excite to mix it in something.

Please excuse my iPhone
 
I have spritzed with my tea blend 2x a day since Sunday. So far so good. My hair is tightly twisted in flat twist so I can't really tell if it is moisturized, but I can tell it isn't super dry. It is only slightly fuzzy for being up for 5 days. I think it is going pretty well considering I am not sealing with oil at all. And my scalp likes having that little spritz of moisture at the end of the day.
 
I wanna do something with my hair today, but IDK what :look:

I probably should just leave it alone and just silk tea spritz and seal. Maybe wait til Monday for a full powder cleansing.
 
I have my first ayurvedic paste on and will rinse out shortly. I am considering a twist out and so I mixed up some henna. I have some tea steeping and my fenugreek on soak. I premixed my deep oil conditioner as well. I have so much hair prep on. I had to stop the hair set up and put groceries in the freezer. I have to be glad my hair is growing and needs henna at the roots, 1/2 inch. The only thing frustrating is all of the required treatments. Oh well. It should look good after I finish.:look:
 
Loving my ayurvedic oil blend:lick:

Stteaming with it and will coffee/tea rinse shortly. I realized that my acv and saa mix was irritating my scalp.

So the last time I used it I only put it in the lower length of my hair. I wonder if I have too much saa in it or if the saa is building and irritating me?

I plan to do a bentonite clay wash. ..I simply use a lot of water with the clay and rinse with it. ..easy as pie ( well eating pie:look:)
 
I think I've put myself on a 4 week schedule. I love the colors but even more so the shine and richness. I see the color I'm bright light and I just love that peekaboo effect:yep:

A friend was just telling me about her friend who is living here but from Angola. . And how every Saturday her mom and her would henna their hair. .. I thought that was so sweet!

IDareT'sHair
 
Jobwright said:
I am making another mix now. Decided not to chance it on my old mix. I used 2 cups of water this time, 3 Rooibos, 2 black tea, 2 tsp each of fenugreek, slippery elm and marshmallow root powders. In the morning, before I apply it to prepoo'ed hair, I will add honey, sunflower oil, and AOHSR. Thinking about adding peppermint oil, but not sure yet. Maybe I will just add the peppermint oil to my sulfur mix so it is applied to my scalp and not my hair.
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This is my second use on this mix. Did not add peppermint to the mix. Thinking about putting a little Kapur in the mix for today...
 
Doing a CAT

Columbian Coffee under Ynobe's Amala & Nettle DC'er (Ayurvedic)
ACV Rinse with Hairveda's ACV Phinising Rinse
Tea Red Roobis
 
Jobwright said:
fenugreek butter...that sounds interesting, share your results and mix PLEASE
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What I decided to do was to melt the butters I wanted to use over a double boiler (big pot filledl halfway with water, brought to a boil, then lowered to simmer, then placed a big glass bowl on top of the pot to gently heat and melt the butters in) and then I added 2-3 teaspoons of fenugreek powder (I ground my seeds up in my vitamix), 1 teaspoon of hibiscus powder, and a a half-teaspoon each of amla, brahmi, and bhringraj. ReviveUk on YouTube says to use about one tablespoon of herbs for every 100ml of oil. I have had this mixture infusing in the double boiler for nearly an hour. I'll let it infuse for about an hour-hour and a half total, and then use some cheesecloth to remove the solid herbs/powder from the melted butter. Then, I'll let the butter infusion cool to a soft solid and begin whipping it. I'll also be adding some honey, glycerin, tea trea oil, and vitamin e.

I'll take a pic when I'm done to show what it looks like.
 

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You ladies were talking about preservatives the other day...have any of you considered citric acid? I recall seeing a packet of it at the Indian grocer. And I keep thinking about it:look: I wonder if it would allow me to leave all of my teas out in the shower? But would it negatively alter the brews? :perplexed:

ETA: X-nay that:nono: It's not a preservative rather it alters the PH.
 
Nix08

Gonna oil my scalp with it this evening. I think I might have added a bit too much fragrance oil...smells nice and covers that tea tree smell, but STRONG, lol.
 
I wore a twist out today. Not sure whether it was the tea or just the act of spritzing my hair 2x a day but my hair was not super dry when I took the twist out today. So that is a good thing. So I will use up the tea that I have made up and hopefully I will see continuous improvement over the next few weeks.

I also went to another health food store. They have all of the teas. I saw the Horsetail and the Saw Palmetto that the other store didn't have. I didn't buy any since I already have more stuff than I can use in the next 60 days. But now I know where to go to find it.
 
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