vatika coconut oil

[tri3nity]

I found a little indian grocery store that carries the most tempting hair oils. The owner tells me that she had in fact been getting a lot of women of all nationalities coming in for the vatika coconut oil and how they buy the different things to mix it with. How do you guys use your oil? Deep conditioning purposes or sealing?

 

[likewtr4chklit]

I just massage my scalp with it at night.

 

[It~Can~Grow]

I use mine as a prepoo.

 

[tri3nity]

I use mine as a prepoo.

Like a hot oil treatment? With a plastic cap? And for how long?

 

[It~Can~Grow]

Like a hot oil treatment? With a plastic cap? And for how long?

Pretty much since I always have to put the bottle in the microwave...

I put the oil all over, plastic cap and sit under my heat cap for 15 minutes.

 

[A.Marie]

I use it in combination with other oils to oil my DD's scalp.

 

[Vintageglam]

Whilst I love this product it really stinks so I only use it as a prepoo. When I am finished I will make my own Vatika frosting based on the Hairveda recipe.

 

[Chaosbutterfly]

I oil my scalp with it, mix it in my DCs, use it to pre-poo, and when it's cold, I blend it with some castor oil and seal my hair with it. The castor keeps it from hardening up. When it's warm, I just seal my hair with it straight.
I love my Vatika Oil.

 

[fattyfatfat]

chaos, you took it back with that rikki lake siggy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! homegirl got her wig and wig cap taken off!

 

[Lanea87]

When I use to use it I just used it to seal and mixed it with my DC's....

 

[sheba1]

Whilst I love this product it really stinks so I only use it as a prepoo. When I am finished I will make my own Vatika frosting based on the Hairveda recipe.

Oooh, please share!

I love Vatika oil for oiling my hair and scalp before my conditioners. I also rub it in my hair before leave-ins and just any ole time, really.

 

[Vintageglam]

Oooh, please share!

I love Vatika oil for oiling my hair and scalp before my conditioners. I also rub it in my hair before leave-ins and just any ole time, really.

Sheba here are the ingredients. I plan to just make a "guest-imation" of quantities needed in order of appearance. I have all the ingredients and will just add either Rose Otto Oil, Fragrance oil or whatever I fancy for fragrance.

I am based in the UK/ France so it would cost me far too much in the shipping and like.

I suppose its a bit like the ladies on the board who infuse their own oils etc.

HTH's

Ingredients include: Pure unrefinedCoconut oil, Amla extract, Henna extract, Lemon extract, Fragrance.

http://hairveda.com/oils.aspx

 

[Galadriel]

I use my vatika oil to seal my ends, lightly moisturize, and to mix in with conditioners.

 

[WorkInProgress88]

i use it on my scalp and new growth like a hot oil treatment

 

[tri3nity]

I oil my scalp with it, mix it in my DCs, use it to pre-poo, and when it's cold, I blend it with some castor oil and seal my hair with it. The castor keeps it from hardening up. When it's warm, I just seal my hair with it straight.
I love my Vatika Oil.

So, Chaos, have you tried using it with an essential oil, say peppermint or adding some silk amino acid to use as a mild protein treatment. Sorry for so many questions ladies, just trying to get some safe and effective uses for this oil.

Oh and it gets hard?

 

[baddison]

I love Vatika Coconut hair oil. I use it to seal. I even love the smell

 

[shunemite]

So, Chaos, have you tried using it with an essential oil, say peppermint or adding some silk amino acid to use as a mild protein treatment. Sorry for so many questions ladies, just trying to get some safe and effective uses for this oil.

Oh and it gets hard?

In the winter it'll freeze coz it is only liquid at regular room temp. I don't use Vatika itself but I did use regular coconut oil in the summer. Unfortunately in the fall one day it got cold, froze on my hair, and I looked like I had dandruff on my scalp so I've left it alone until the weather warms up again. That doesn't happen to everyone though. It could just be coz I have fine hair. Idk.

 

[MizzCoco]

I just use it to seal, and sometimes as a hot oil treatment. Sometimes I use add it to my DC as well

 

[IrisDaVirus]

Use it for scalp massages
Mix it in with my other conditioners (it's AWESOME when I use it that way)

 

[tri3nity]

In the winter it'll freeze coz it is only liquid at regular room temp. I don't use Vatika itself but I did use regular coconut oil in the summer. Unfortunately in the fall one day it got cold, froze on my hair, and I looked like I had dandruff on my scalp so I've left it alone until the weather warms up again. That doesn't happen to everyone though. It could just be coz I have fine hair. Idk.

OOOOH! That's what happened
It got cold one day here in Houston (never gets cold in Houston!) and I had used some regular coconut oil to grease my scalp and it got hard. I didnt know what was going on. I thought I had over-proteined my hair. Well now I know.

 

[Starronda]

Just wet my ends and used this to seal. Love Vatika, and I dont mind the smell

 

[Chaosbutterfly]

So, Chaos, have you tried using it with an essential oil, say peppermint or adding some silk amino acid to use as a mild protein treatment. Sorry for so many questions ladies, just trying to get some safe and effective uses for this oil.

Oh and it gets hard?

You know, I can't say that I have. The only thing I add to it is castor oil.
If I had any, I might try to add peppermint oil to it, but I wouldn't add SAA.
I think I'd put SAA in something that penetrates more, like conditioner, so my hair can really reap the benefits of it.

 

[Chrissy811]

OOOOH! That's what happened
It got cold one day here in Houston (never gets cold in Houston!) and I had used some regular coconut oil to grease my scalp and it got hard. I didnt know what was going on. I thought I had over-proteined my hair. Well now I know.

LOL that happened to me the first time I used coconut oil too, but I'm in Chicago you can imagine my surprise when I felt my head and my bang was stiff as a board.

 

[tri3nity]

LOL that happened to me the first time I used coconut oil too, but I'm in Chicago you can imagine my surprise when I felt my head and my bang was stiff as a board.

I can imagine! When I said cold, it was like maybe 45 degrees and we almost froze to death here. We do not do cold well

 

[sharifeh]

I just used some vatika on my ng tonight, hopefully it won't freeze on my head since I'm indoors.

 

[Kellum]

I use Vatika oil I to oil my hair and scalp before my Ayurveda regimen.

 

[Ms Kain]

So, Chaos, have you tried using it with an essential oil, say peppermint or adding some silk amino acid to use as a mild protein treatment. Sorry for so many questions ladies, just trying to get some safe and effective uses for this oil.

Oh and it gets hard?

Oh I love this stuff! Especially when I am conditioning on dry hair!


The only thing is that when I melt the Vatika, I don't put it directly in the microwave because 1) the temperature of oil is very unpredictable and so are items coming out of the microwave and I'd rather not risk scorching my scalp and 2) just like the microwave can take away some of the nutritional properties in food, it's just as likely that it would diminish the very nutrients I'd want to go into my hair.....erplexed

So what I do to heat it is fill a bowl with water, heat THAT in the microwave for about 2 minutes and then I just put the Vatika oil in a tint bottle and put the tint bottle in the water so that it will melt the Vatika indirectly!

Then I just go through my hair with it. I do the whole scalp making sure I have coverage. Then I put the conditioner I planned to use on the rest of my hair (I usually put 10 drops of peppermint in with my conditioner because I love how it makes my scalp tingle!!), cover it and then sit under the dryer for 15 -25 minutes. Then I rinse.

It always feels fabulous!

I only do this when I'm using a moisturizing shampoo afterwards though; never a clarifying shampoo because that would defeat the purpose of conditioning on dry hair, ya know?

So yeah.......that's my lil' Vatika reggie! Next to pure coconut oil and Amla Gold mixed together, this is my next favorite prepoo!

~ Hera

 

[empressri]

I use a little all over my scalp and then about a quarter size puddle through the length of my hair. It doesn't smell the best but man oh man does it keep my hair soft!! My hair only freezes if I go outside with no hat and if it's 20 degrees below God's toenail but it softens up once you go back inside! I just wished it smelled better cause that stuff softens like no other.

 

[IrrationalThoughts]

My hair usually hates coconut oil, but Vatika is the business. makes me happy! use it in DCs and Pre-poos, when I am feeling crunchy.

 

[tri3nity]

I use Vatika oil I to oil my hair and scalp before my Ayurveda regimen.

What's an ayurveda treatment? Is it for growth or strength?