Frederick Frekkai is Stealing Our Hair Secrets!!

[Energee]

We hear ya. Wasn't trying to be rude or anything. I think that what happens is that because you're into haircare you now notice things that you won't have noticed before.
It's like when you get a new pocket book all of a sudden you notice everyone with the same pocket book but won't have noticed it before you got it.

OP means Original poster.

YOU (and the OP too) have GORGEOUS HAIR! I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw it......LOL.

 

[Enchantmt]

ACV rinses have been around for years. I remember reading about them along with lemon rinses, tea rinses, and using lemons for knees and elbows in beauty books my sister had that were printed in the 60's. Not books targeted for black folx, but my point is that it's not a new practice. It's good to see this info being put back into the main stream. The sooner folx get educated the better it is for everyone.

 

[lejardinier]

I used to get my hair cut at FF when Alain was still there. Back in the beginning of his career he couldn't find a backer to help him start his hair care line. Instead each FF client was given a list of products to purchase to take care of your hair when you couldn't get to the salon. It was a pretty extensive list and included lots of things that you got from your kitchen and all of the shampoos/conditioners/treatments were from health/natural markets. It was only because one of his clients was married to the president of a huge international corporation that he has the line that you see today. I'm sure it was hard for Frederic to turn down the kind of money he was offered from his backer. I know for a fact that if it were up to him he'd be mixing conditioners and oils from the health food store in the back of his salon like he used to before he became famous. I'm sure he his inclusion of cider vinegar, lavender, olive oil and herbs comes from his background and the kinds of things that were used by the women in his family in France.

 

[pistachio]

Why is it that only a few hair companies marketed toward mainly black women, (Mizani, Affirm, etc) do well with our hair? It seems like "white" products work much better. I mean, if I wrote a list of all the good black hair care products and the good white ones (for black hair), there be far more good white products.

It makes you wonder who or what are they researching when they produce black hair care products.

I think back in the day we only used petroleum(grease, cheap) and mineral oil(again, cheap), and it's as if they took it and ran with it. And even now with the whole "organic" craze, I still think there's more mineral oil in some products then they'll lead us to believe...

 

[Longhealthyhair]

Speaking of ACV rinses...

do you clarify after or before the prepoo? what's the sequence if you still want to prepoo and deep condition? Thanks in advance ladies.

can someone answer this. I really want to do an ACV rinse at my next wash (friday).

 

[Amber_moon]

While these tips have been going on for YEARS, y'all DO know that there ARE people who get PAID to join forums and read about what "consumers" are using and doing... then they report it back to the client. They get paid GOOD money to do it too. I wouldn't be surprised if many of them are reading this very thread right NOW.

They are paid to blend in and "look" like regular board members.

It happens ALL the time.