Shea Growth and Retention Regimen 2015

What color is your Shea Butter mix? Before yesterday, mine was a yellow color with lots of chunky bumps. I FINALLY decided to use an electric mixer and it's more whipped, smooth, and a light banana color. Melted just so right in my hands when rubbed together and in my hair :)
 
I usually wash my hair twice a week but this week I only washed once. I still moisturized and sealed with shea butter every night and my hair was very soft all week.
 
Still using my Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie around 4xs per week. My hair is very moisturized (thanks to the Steaming Challenge!).
 
So far with me spritzing my hair every other day with homemade teas (black, green, nettle, and coffee) followed by slathering Shea Butter to all of my hair has been very soft and silky.
 
Used my SM curl milk and a wonderful whipped butter by Valanalana to seal. Hair feels so moisturized. Loving this challenge for the winter.
 
My hair hasn't been this moisturized since I've included my tea spritz and mixed my Shea Butter thoroughly. Just beautiful I say :)
 
Continuing to use SM jBCO leave in morning and night. Couple of times a week, I switch to Naturelle Growth pumpkin butter , which is also shea based.
 
I made a shea butter mix with shea butter, mango butter, coconut oil, vitamin e oil and grapeseed oil. I whipped it and it was fine but after letting it sit for a little while it became so thick and hard to work in my hair. Should I add more oil to the mix? How do I make it creamier and less thick
 
^^^I made my own shea butter mix yesterday. I used shea, olive oil, glycerin and lavender. I whipped it for about 20 minutes to get it super fluffy. You could try to whip it again to lighten it up or maybe add more coconut oil? I'm not sure this was my first time making my own mix.
 
H0tPinkButtafly said:
I made a shea butter mix with shea butter, mango butter, coconut oil, vitamin e oil and grapeseed oil. I whipped it and it was fine but after letting it sit for a little while it became so thick and hard to work in my hair. Should I add more oil to the mix? How do I make it creamier and less thick
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Maybe your ratio of Shea Butter and oils are off. Did you use a tub of Shea Butter? Like for me I buy a tub of Shea Butter and use only half of it and include my variety of oils. So yeah, try adding more oils or half'n the concoction to store later, but still add more oils.
 
Almost done with my homemade batch of Shea Butter. It's kinda strong with the tea tree oil so next time I'll try essential Lavender oil. I should have to make more buy the weekend. How long does your batch of Shea Butter last ya'll? For me about 2 1/2 weeks.
 
Washed my hair and sealed with Shea Butter mixture, I've also noticed I haven't gotten any single strand knots since I've started using Shea Butter.
 
Leo24Rule said:
Maybe your ratio of Shea Butter and oils are off. Did you use a tub of Shea Butter? Like for me I buy a tub of Shea Butter and use only half of it and include my variety of oils. So yeah, try adding more oils or half'n the concoction to store later, but still add more oils.
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I didn't use a whole tub, I took a few spoonfuls out then added the oil without measuring it.. That's what I was thinking. I'm going to add more grape seed oil to thin it out more
 
I've stopped sealing with Shea butter for the last two weeks while my hair has been in twists. I will remove the twists in two weeks and will begin using Shea butter blends weekly again. I have been conditioning my hair with a Shea butter based conditioner while in the twists.

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I made a new batch of shea butter mix, but this time I used an electric mixer. I mixed in cocoa butter, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, rice bran oil, and flax seed oil. The end result is the creamiest, fluffiest butter I've ever touched. I put it in my hair last night after my DC and today my hair feels just lovely.

I've still got quite a bit of Shea butter left, but once I use it up I'm going to buy some really high quality white shea butter. Hoping I'll have even better results with higher quality ingredients
 
Cowashed my hair late last night and mixed shea and mango butters into my DC for extra soft hair. And then after twisting my hair up, I sealed with my shea butter and castor oil mix.

^^I've always noticed that my shea mixes come out softer the longer I use the hand mixer on them. So even though I have a lot of castor oil in my current mix, it's still fairly solid because I got lazy and mixed with a fork while it was melted.
 
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Sprayed my hair with some water and moisturized with Kinky Kashmere conditioner. Its main ingredient is shea butter. Then I did some twists for a twist out tomorrow. Too damn cold to be playing with wash n gos.
 
SweetlyCurly said:
Is her pumpkin butter pumpkin scented?
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@SweetlyCurly,

The scent is very faint, but I have had this for a year now. I was disappointed when it first arrived because I expected it to be a softly whipped product, instead of a firmer butter. In fact, I really hadn't used it until recently.

I thought that this had disappeared from her website, but I see now that it is back.
 
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Pennefeather said:
SweetlyCurly,

The scent is very faint, but I have had this for a year now. I was disappointed when it first arrived because I expected it to be a softly shipped product, instead of a firmer butter. In fact, I really hadn't used it until recently.

I thought that this had disappeared from her website, but I see now that it is back.
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Thanks for the review. Yeah, I don't like firm butters so I'm glad I didn't go for it.
 
Dilettante said:
I made a new batch of shea butter mix, but this time I used an electric mixer. I mixed in cocoa butter, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, rice bran oil, and flax seed oil. The end result is the creamiest, fluffiest butter I've ever touched. I put it in my hair last night after my DC and today my hair feels just lovely.

I've still got quite a bit of Shea butter left, but once I use it up I'm going to buy some really high quality white shea butter. Hoping I'll have even better results with higher quality ingredients
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Where are you buying this "high quality" white shea butter?
 
Leo24Rule I know butters n bars is supposed to have very nice quality shea butter at a decent price. I still have quite a bit of the yellow stuff (which has been working for me so far) to use up so I haven't done a lot of research into vendors yet
 
Cowashed this morning. Used kinky kashmere conditioner as a leave in (shea butter based) and sealed with Valanalana whipped shea butter). Hair feels awesome!
 
Used SM JBCO leave in yesterday as well as Jakeala nappy butter. My ends love this stuff but I am a little heavy handed. I'm going to try her whipped Shea too.
 
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