Shea Butter Growth And Retention Thread 2020

Length Milestones you wish to Break Through in 2020

  • Pixie/Chin

    Votes: 3 2.8%
  • Neck length/Shoulder

    Votes: 17 15.9%
  • BSB/BSL

    Votes: 34 31.8%
  • Mid Back/Waist

    Votes: 38 35.5%
  • Hip/Whip

    Votes: 15 14.0%
  • BCL/TBL

    Votes: 8 7.5%
  • Classic

    Votes: 4 3.7%
  • Mid Thigh

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • Knee

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Total voters
    107
Can you guys recommend a product? I can't do fully raw, it's too hard and heavy for me. I'm not willing to mix anything up on my own. And I'm not willing to pay more than, say, about $20 for 8 oz. Is there anything out there for me?

Right now I have only 1 cream leave in. I'm not about that product junkie life. It's QB cocoa tree detangling ghee. I probably have 2-3 weeks' worth left. I do like it, and would just buy again, but am open to another product. Thanks in advance
 
Can you guys recommend a product? I can't do fully raw, it's too hard and heavy for me. I'm not willing to mix anything up on my own. And I'm not willing to pay more than, say, about $20 for 8 oz. Is there anything out there for me?

Right now I have only 1 cream leave in. I'm not about that product junkie life. It's QB cocoa tree detangling ghee. I probably have 2-3 weeks' worth left. I do like it, and would just buy again, but am open to another product. Thanks in advance
Have you thought about trying the twist cream from Melanin Haircare? It’s $16.99 for 16 ounces and Shea is the second ingredient (water is the first).
 
You could also try Aunt Jackie's Hydrating Sealing Butter. Shea butter is the 2nd ingredient in that one too. I believe its around $5 so it could be a good comparison with Melanin
oh no! 2 choices. i don't do well with choices. okay, this is going on a mental list. i'm going to try the melanin first, because i wanted to try the oil too ... then again, that $6 at Walmart as opposed to $45 to get my 2 melanin products + shipping ...
 
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Can you guys recommend a product? I can't do fully raw, it's too hard and heavy for me. I'm not willing to mix anything up on my own. And I'm not willing to pay more than, say, about $20 for 8 oz. Is there anything out there for me?

Right now I have only 1 cream leave in. I'm not about that product junkie life. It's QB cocoa tree detangling ghee. I probably have 2-3 weeks' worth left. I do like it, and would just buy again, but am open to another product. Thanks in advance

Have you tried Strands of Faith? She has really perfected the art of making Shea work across various product types.
 
So I had my baby at the beginning of January. I had just washed my hair not too long before I delivered. It took me until yesterday to have enough time & energy to wash and style my hair. This is the longest I have ever gone without washing my hair. I have to give props to Shea butter for enabling one of the easiest detangling sessions I’ve ever had. Like someone upthread mentioned, once the warm water hit my hair the tangles all melted out. It’s also been easier than ever before to part my hair & access my scalp. I’m loving this!!
Edit- oh and I’m certain my hair is longer than it was before. However, I’m going to need much more time to blow it out before I can report results for sure.

Congratulations!!!!!!!:rosebud:
 
I've been using the shea butter as a pre treatment before washing my hair - amazing it gives me a really good stretch as I mainly do WnGs. Also I use it to slick back my gel again amazing I didn't realise how useful it can be for slick backs as it just smoothes my hair so well before I even apply gel. So I usually put my warm water on my hair then apply a leave in and warm up shea and apply then apply the gel.
 
I do believe the Alikay leave in is setting my scalp on fire for about 24 hours after I use it. Thought it was the rice water but I didn’t use it today after washing. I now need to find another natural liquid leave in to try that has aloe Vera as a top ingredient.

I also used black rice water as my moisturizer every other day for the last two weeks and sealed with the Shea yogurt. My hair was so soft and I saw a big decrease in shedding, but didn’t seem to improve breakage.

Going to try a hard Aphogee treatment on wash day in 2 weeks.


I mix rose water with aloe vera juice in a spray bottle. I use this concoction almost every night.
 
I just ordered the melanin hair care twist elongating style cream. You all have convinced me to give shea another go. I don't have any negative recollection of it, just don't have any particularly strong impression of it, and I've forgotten what it's like after not using it for a while. My QB cocoa tree detangling ghee is almost out. I just finished doing a mid-week remoisturizing with it, and my twists look great. I'll give the shea a try and if I don't like it, I can always go back to the cocoa ghee.
 
I just ordered the melanin hair care twist elongating style cream. You all have convinced me to give shea another go. I don't have any negative recollection of it, just don't have any particularly strong impression of it, and I've forgotten what it's like after not using it for a while. My QB cocoa tree detangling ghee is almost out. I just finished doing a mid-week remoisturizing with it, and my twists look great. I'll give the shea a try and if I don't like it, I can always go back to the cocoa ghee.

Cocoa ghee has been the only product that stood the test of time. I’ve used it as a leave-in for at least 10 years.
 
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Can you guys recommend a product? I can't do fully raw, it's too hard and heavy for me. I'm not willing to mix anything up on my own. And I'm not willing to pay more than, say, about $20 for 8 oz. Is there anything out there for me?

Right now I have only 1 cream leave in. I'm not about that product junkie life. It's QB cocoa tree detangling ghee. I probably have 2-3 weeks' worth left. I do like it, and would just buy again, but am open to another product. Thanks in advance

I know you don't want to have three choices but I have another recommendation. Taliah Waajid's Curly Curl Cream is great and has shea butter as the 2nd ingredient. It's about $7 for 6oz but a little goes a long way and my hair loves it.
 
I know you don't want to have three choices but I have another recommendation. Taliah Waajid's Curly Curl Cream is great and has shea butter as the 2nd ingredient. It's about $7 for 6oz but a little goes a long way and my hair loves it.
Thanks. This is something you can get locally, right? I'll think about it for next time. I just ordered the melanin hair care, which was, with shipping, $27 for 16 oz. So $7 for 6 oz is not bad if I can get it locally.
 
I'm out of Shea butter and too lazy to buy more. I did massage castor oil (just enough to lubricate my strands) in my hair tonight and it felt good.

Why didn't someone slap me for being too lazy to buy more shea butter sooner?

My has been drying out even with deep conditioning until..........just made my new batch of shea butter mixed with grapeseed, castor, olive and jojobo oils!

My hair is doing a happy dance :circle:
 
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