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I bought some about 2 wks ago from an Indian grocery store, but I didn't get the cow ghee, I purchased the Pure Butter Ghee by Royal Cuisine, Is there a difference in the 2?
CICI24 said:Yes its called Ghee clarified butter. my friend from Cameron also uses this I think they use this all over Africa. My friend told me it was good for hair growth but it stinks. I tried a while ago its okay I was to impatient to wait and see the results it is high in protein also.
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HairPhoenix said:My curiosity wheels are turning... I am wondering if African Americans originally used butter as a substitute for the Ghee butter after they were brought to America... and then started using substitutes that were easier to come by like fats, lard, and grease... and then people started mixing other less organic ingredients to make hair grease... then, as with most manufacturing processes, they found cheaper and more readily available ingredients to mass produce product; which may explain why so many hair greases have so many unnatural ingredients... and nowadays we realize that the more natural the ingredients are, the better... so we have come full circle back to Ghee butter.
I'm not saying this is the case, but I'm wondering if that's how the process went... hmmm...
kitchen_tician said:HairPhoenix: I think this helps support your theory. I just applied some ghee and I have on my plastic cap.
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0510/feature2/learn.html
Did You Know?
You probably didn't know that Afar men dress their hair with clarified butter. The butter, known as ghee, conditions their hair and protects it from the sun's brutal rays. Afar men's hair is often worn teased out in large Afro-style hairdos, or else woven into tight curls and liberally applied with ghee. Women wear their hair carefully combed and arranged in a series of shiny hanging ringlets.
Yes, the product you are talking about is Ghee and boy is it stinky. But it works like a charm. When I was younger, I lived very close to the Fulani ethnic group (they are spread over many countries, but predominantly in West Africa) and they use it on their hair. I swear the women have got gorgeous thick hair *drools*. They used to offer it to my mum to use on our hair, but it was so stinky, we just used it to cook rice (yum yum...so tasty). LOL
If you really want to get the good unprocessed stuff that they make themselves, get yourself a friend from West Africa who visits regularly and have him/her buy it from a local market for you!
Exactly! We call it Mai Shanu (oil of cow) and I have family members that swear by it. Sure is stinky though- for me. But may revisit as a hot oil treatment
Exactly! We call it Mai Shanu (oil of cow) and I have family members that swear by it. Sure is stinky though- for me. But may revisit as a hot oil treatment