adw425
Well-Known Member
I work at one of the schools in the Atlanta University Center and sometimes I forget where I am in terms of what I can get my hands on as the first place I usually go is online. I walked up the street at lunchtime, which is not unusual. However, I usually walk over to West End Mall or Family Dollar or further down to Angies Beauty Supply although I hardly go to the BSS anymore because: I have lots of stuff already and more and more I am into more natural products.
Anyway, I walked across the overpass today over I-20 at Lee Street and kept straight. I told myself I would stop at the African store to browse as they have beautiful fabrics, clothes, earrings, statues, masks, drums, etc. I hadn't stopped in there in over a year. Next to it (I did not know it was there) was a new store called the International Beauty Supply. It sounded interesting to me because of the word International and I thought they may have some hair products in there that are different from all the other BSS's like maybe Minoval products or products that contain rachette, etc. Anyway, the door was locked, much to my disappointment, although I cannot imagine why it was closed at 1:10 pm when folk are on lunch and may want to browse and buy, but I digress....
I went into the African store and it just took my breath away. There were tons of new products in there: Nubian Heritage's entire line, Saniyah (sp?) hair products (I am not familiar with this line, but the products looked great at a glance), lots of African Formula products, Dudu Osun, etc. They had a huge tub of raw shea butter, huge round blocks of African black soap, huge baskets filled with round balls of raw shea butter soap and on and on.
I was not supposed to spend any money today because I had already placed an order earlier for jojoba and tea tree oil from Tea Tree King and Jojoba King, but I could not resist.
I bought a 16 ounce container of raw shea butter (since it is warm here, it is a perfect scooping and spreadable consistency), raw shea butter soap (not packaged stuff like Nubian Heritage and African Formula, I plucked it out of a basket); palm oil soap -- again not packaged up or perfectly shaped, but something it looks like you would buy in a, open air market in Africa or the Carribean.
I started talking to the lady about palm oil telling her how I add palm oil to my conditioner and she was like: "How do you know about palm oil for hair and skin" and I was like: "You'd be surprised at what I know" (smile), so we had a nice conversation about palm oil and aloe vera, coconut oil and she told me the lady in the shop right around the corner sells palm oil, which I either usually order online or go up to the Sweet Auburn Avenue Market to buy. I also bought some black seed oil, which I will be adding to my scalp concoction.
In all I spent $22.00 and feel I got some really great natural products. I am pretty happy! I will walk back up there next week to the International Beauty Supply to see what they are about and report back.
Anyway, I walked across the overpass today over I-20 at Lee Street and kept straight. I told myself I would stop at the African store to browse as they have beautiful fabrics, clothes, earrings, statues, masks, drums, etc. I hadn't stopped in there in over a year. Next to it (I did not know it was there) was a new store called the International Beauty Supply. It sounded interesting to me because of the word International and I thought they may have some hair products in there that are different from all the other BSS's like maybe Minoval products or products that contain rachette, etc. Anyway, the door was locked, much to my disappointment, although I cannot imagine why it was closed at 1:10 pm when folk are on lunch and may want to browse and buy, but I digress....
I went into the African store and it just took my breath away. There were tons of new products in there: Nubian Heritage's entire line, Saniyah (sp?) hair products (I am not familiar with this line, but the products looked great at a glance), lots of African Formula products, Dudu Osun, etc. They had a huge tub of raw shea butter, huge round blocks of African black soap, huge baskets filled with round balls of raw shea butter soap and on and on.
I was not supposed to spend any money today because I had already placed an order earlier for jojoba and tea tree oil from Tea Tree King and Jojoba King, but I could not resist.
I bought a 16 ounce container of raw shea butter (since it is warm here, it is a perfect scooping and spreadable consistency), raw shea butter soap (not packaged stuff like Nubian Heritage and African Formula, I plucked it out of a basket); palm oil soap -- again not packaged up or perfectly shaped, but something it looks like you would buy in a, open air market in Africa or the Carribean.
I started talking to the lady about palm oil telling her how I add palm oil to my conditioner and she was like: "How do you know about palm oil for hair and skin" and I was like: "You'd be surprised at what I know" (smile), so we had a nice conversation about palm oil and aloe vera, coconut oil and she told me the lady in the shop right around the corner sells palm oil, which I either usually order online or go up to the Sweet Auburn Avenue Market to buy. I also bought some black seed oil, which I will be adding to my scalp concoction.
In all I spent $22.00 and feel I got some really great natural products. I am pretty happy! I will walk back up there next week to the International Beauty Supply to see what they are about and report back.
I better learn my way down there...
I'd love to try that shea butter & shea butter soap!
