Jamaican Ladies: Please Reply: Help me out!

[Mahalialee4]

I received my raw Jamaican black castor oil and love it. What are the ingredients? It has a unique odor, and is very dark and they say the village ladies make it. What is the odor from and what is the color from, and can you use it as a laxative as well as for the hair? If you use this product, what has it done for your hair? I am excited at the prospects. On my hair it feels so much like a special balm and my scalp actually wanted to inhale. However they make it or whatever they do, they have provided me a keeper product and I am very thankful. Bonjour

 

[JamericanGurl]

I have no clue what's in it?

My grand used it on hair , skin and we took it internally (by mouth). I use it now, but as a hotoil treatment. I softens my natural hair.

 

[babyanjel]

According to my grandmother it's a castor plant that bears a small fruit and it's all boiled down and cooled...her mother used to make it...That's all i know about it

 

[billyne]

that sounds cool....where can i buy some?

 

[Country gal]

Is it better than the regular castor oil in the store?

 

[carameldiva]

you can get it at www.sams247.com . i like it alot can't say that it is better than my reg. castor oil. but it is a keeper.

 

[mscounselor]

From what my mother told me...its the purest form without it being refined.

 

[Mahalialee4]

I am really tired of refined things. I try to get as much unrefined product as possible, understand about the processing and really appreciate the traditional ways. I am soo thankful that someone is carrying it on. I think that they brown the seeds first to get that smoky, acrid smell and taste too. Bonjour

 

[Trinity1]

I'm Jamaican/Indian and my mom knows about this but has never used it....
Sorry.



TeeTee2

 

[OnPoint]

I was just in Jamaica and I could not find a bottle anywhere!!! That's funny when you think about it.

 

[mscounselor]

I was just in Jamaica and I could not find a bottle anywhere!!! That's funny when you think about it.

If you went into a regular store or the market you wouldn't find it. Jamaican stores tend to carry what the people want....and thats anything American (or atleast where I/ my family is from). My mom says you have to go somewhere specific and promised we would look for some next week when I go.

 

[Shawnee66]

My mother lives in Jamaica and she has a bottle. She said somebody made it for her.

 

[madamdot]

Yes its from tree a that has a kind of nut like fruit. They were all over my backyard when i was growing up and my mother would pick the nut, shell it, put it out in the sun and I think boil it. Usually she would send it to my grandmother to make the oil because we use to have so much ... and my grandmother would send us a bottle.
So if nothing else is added, its a natural product. We use to use it to "steam" our hair in JA.

In fact I think I may have some here from when I went home the last time. Unfortunately, I recently discovered my hair hates oil and water mixture and its too thick to leave on my hair as a moisturizer. But my mother loved it on her hair.