Suburbanbushbabe

I read Jillipoos thread on mixing products, and followed some links from Beauty Brains blog to this:

http://store.naturoli.com/product.ph...cat=285&page=1

They have a sampler I'm going to buy. I've used soapnut liquid to handwash, but not soapnut soap. I'm going to try it as a shampoo bar and see what happens. Naturoli was supposed to have shapoo specific bars, but I didn't find them.

Apparently soapnuts are naturally antibacterial and anti microbial. Here's a soapnuts blog:
http://www.soap-nuts.info/


Interesting post on Beaty Brains about the siloxane cone BTW.
http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/09/2...pentasiloxane/

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breezybaby

Aritha is ground up soapnut

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Staples (used in many ways):
Coconut milk
Castor oil
Coconut oil
Honey
Shea butter

redcelticcurls

The comments section in that post were beyond ridiculous, but the post was interesting.

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Med/Coarse, porous curly.

jillipoo

Soap nuts. Sounds like a yummy snack.

Let us know how the sampler turns out, SBB.

And interesting about 'siloxane, no? The more I read about silicones, the more I'm convinced that most of us are avoiding all of them equally when in fact, they are not created equal at all....

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CONDITIONERS and LEAVE-INS: Mop Top Daily Conditioner, KBB Nectar, Aubrey GPB or Island Naturals, Robert Craig, Any Jessicurl
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redcelticcurls

I do remember having a hard time with cyclopentasiloxane making my hair quite lanky and greasy looking pre cg. Perhaps it's a YMMV thing.

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Med/Coarse, porous curly.

pelicano

I tried soapnut on my hair but didn't find it too good (lots of build up etc), but I use it to wash my towels and underwear.

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Sarah.

Based in the UK. 2-something (2b?) hair. Very porous, fine and brittle/fragile

Hair loves: Drip drying, glycerine, shea butter, oils
Hair hates: Plopping, any kind of gel, most conditioners (scalp issues).

kathymack

I've put aritha in my Ayurvedic herb infusion, didn't find it as cleansing as a soap bar. The soap bar, however, is saponified oils with the aritha product added. It should cleanse as well as any of the other bars you use.

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3a (Corkicelli), highlighted, fine, low porosity
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CG since 3/11/08

SE PA

HGs: Curly Kinks Satin Roots, Curlycue ReNew and Coil Jam; homemade FSG and okra gel; soap bars; DM MiraCurls Curling Gelly; UFD Curly Magic; Shescentit LIs; Sevi conditioners; Botanical Spirits Puree, CJ Repair Me

Suburbanbushbabe

Agree on not all cones being equal. The longer I go on this natural hair journey the more open I am. The Loma conditioner I'm using has a cone (down the list) and I love what it does for my hair.

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