missbanjo

Since I'm mixing something up in the kitchen at least once a week and I know there are others. Why not have a thread for it? Recipes are up to you. Maybe you'll inspire somebody!

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Southern Colorado Curly
Mix of 2s med-low porosity, med-fine texture, lots of hair
Playing: Beautiful Curls curl activating cream & L/I
Clarify 1-2x a month, lo-poo once a week, cowash 2x a week
Regimen: dime SheaM C&H Milk, 2 nickels LOOB/Biotera Gel, dime SheaM Smoothie/dime SheaM C&H milk mixed, plop overnight, 2 nickels BRHG, diffuse 10 minutes

missbanjo

Trying another flax cream. Using my usual FSG and BTMS this time.

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Southern Colorado Curly
Mix of 2s med-low porosity, med-fine texture, lots of hair
Playing: Beautiful Curls curl activating cream & L/I
Clarify 1-2x a month, lo-poo once a week, cowash 2x a week
Regimen: dime SheaM C&H Milk, 2 nickels LOOB/Biotera Gel, dime SheaM Smoothie/dime SheaM C&H milk mixed, plop overnight, 2 nickels BRHG, diffuse 10 minutes

Ceri

That's funny you mentioned the FSG with BTMS, I was just playing around with a formula myself for something like that. I'll probably try it this weekend.

Sat I made a few batches of CP soap and today I made up a batch each of my solid shampoo and solid conditioner. Tomorrow will be soap again.

Since I sell at my local Farmer's Market on Sun, I try to make something after work at least 3 days a week after my day job.

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3a/3b Medium Texture & Normal Porosity
Modified CG since November 2009
Low Poo - (Once a week) My homemade solid poo bars
CO-wash/Condish - (I'm lazy, one step only!) I make my own solid conditioner bars
LI - My conditioner bars
Styling - Homemade FSG
I plop and defuse daily!

I love MUSE

swtndspcy

I have been working on a quasi curl fuel recipe.
My first recipe was fantastic for curl enhancement, but was sticky. I am thinking maybe boiling the mag sulfate and agave with the water for a minute to help it really dissolve might help this.
My recipe was
1/2 c distilled water
1/4 c AVG
1/2 tsp agave
1/2 tsp silk amino acid
1 tsp mag sulfate
1 tsp veg glycerin
1-2 tbsp condish
and a crap ton of FO to cover the antiseptic smell of the AVG. (LOTD)
I may also scrap the AVG in favor of aloe juice. Which is what the curl fuel uses. I just used AVG cause that's what I had. Plus, until my husband finishes up that ginormous jar of pickles in my fridge, I have no where to store some aloe juice! LOL

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Fia- 2b/c,n,i
normal/high porosity, normal elasticity

Co-wash - SN Coconut, TN smoothing in winter
RO - Renpure Red/ GVPCB
LI - SM C&SM, SMCES
FSG+ecostyler, LALSG or any of the various gels I have
Super soak, Plop, Pixie Diffuse
IAgirl's gelatin PT, honey and coconut oil added to GVPCB for DT. Low Poo with SMC&HCS or Organix coconut or sulfate wash with SN coconut once a month
My hair and body HG - coconut oil!! I <3 that stuff. I'm a Shea Moisture C&H junkie

curledlove

I mixed castor and jojoba oils last night for an oil treatment. Left it in for about an hour and BAM awesome hair! I love oils more and more every time I try them

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3c/4a
WL (25") straightened
APL curly

Teri Laflesh's book "Curly Like Me" sits on my desk and everytime I get frustrated and an impulse tells me to shave my head, I look at it in hopes that one day my hair will graze the top of my butt.

BekkaPoo

Made a shea butter/amla oil/grapeseed oil sealant mix. I think the amla oil is giving me zits though, and not in good places -- behind my ears, for one!

I'm going to redo the mix with just grapeseed oil.

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famus_darling

Great idea for a post!

By he way, can someone explain the benefits of BTMS to me? Is there a process for using it? I know it does not come in liquid, right?

This week I made a pre poo conditioner for my daughter.

Avacado
Coconut butter
Coconut milk
Olive oil
Liquid amino
Yogurt
Banana, apple, and carrot baby food

I have tons left so I'll use it for about a week; for my hair and my baby girl's hair.

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Me: 3c, very thick
BC- May 2010
Current routine:
pre poo: avacado, banana babyfood, grapeseed oil, and silk amino acid. Cleanser: DC No Poo 1x a week and BC 1x a week. DT: GVP Cond balm and grape seed oil
Co-wash: GVP CD, TJ tea tree
Leave-in: GVP CD, TJ tea tree, and grape seed oil
Styling: HETT and castor oil
DD (8 & 6 yo): both4s (1 thick, 2 thin) – keep in 2strand twists
DD (4yo): 3b (very thin, hard to grow) – keep in single braids with lots of beads for protection

Shondadini

Well today I whipped up some whipped Shea butter lol. I took about 8oz of Shea butter, about 3/4cup of evoo, and some orange essential oil. It's really creamy!

missbanjo

Famus, it's a wicked good conditioning agent. I don't know specifics but a lot of curlies love it.
Some info:
Lotioncrafter BTMS - Lotioncrafter LLC
Conditioners Containing Behentrimonium Methosulfate | Curly Nikki | Natural Hair Styles and Curly Hair Care

My recipe last night didn't turn out as planned. My original FSG with BTMS didn't have enough BTMS so back to the drawing board. I decided to make it from scratch instead of doing a test sample with 1 3oz tube of FSG. I get the Flax extract done, the herbal extract done, mix them together, get the BTMS in and finally to the right temp.....
Power goes out at 7:40pm
I'm sure it was due to the fire and they wanted to cut power to those affected and went into overkill. At 8:40p I finally went to bed, late. The power comes on at 10:12p and the electric company calls to let me know at 10:45p, uhhh thanks.

So this morning I reheated it and blended it up. We'll see if it's shot when I get home.

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Southern Colorado Curly
Mix of 2s med-low porosity, med-fine texture, lots of hair
Playing: Beautiful Curls curl activating cream & L/I
Clarify 1-2x a month, lo-poo once a week, cowash 2x a week
Regimen: dime SheaM C&H Milk, 2 nickels LOOB/Biotera Gel, dime SheaM Smoothie/dime SheaM C&H milk mixed, plop overnight, 2 nickels BRHG, diffuse 10 minutes

IAgirl

I love the BTMS idea. Too heavy for me except in teeny tiny bits!

I tried adding polyquat-4 to protein-ed FSG. The first use was WOW, the second and third were less wow, so probably causing build-up.
Today I added acrylates copolymer to FSG. I think I may like this better.

Last night I used a mix of hops, horsetail, chamomile, and nettles in a PT and it is always a really nice herbal mix for adding body!

Great idea for a thread, Missbanjo. I'll be back to see what creative things you all are up to!

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Fine (ii), not very porous, elastic-y waves and curls (IA = Iowa)
http://scienceyhairblog.blogspot.com/

CurlyCoilyMe

Deep conditioner of banana, avocado, coconut milk and olive oil.

SusieSuze

I created what might be an awesome styling cream!

3 oz. Garner Fructis Fortifying Cream
1 tsp unflavored unsweetened gelatin. (I used Knox)
4 oz hot water.

Blend thoroughly. I saw a few lumps and took out my hand blender and it worked great. I let the mixture cool a bit and poured it into an appropriate 8 oz. bottle.

Used it once so far, and results are quite nice and lasting!! I'm excited to use it more and see if it stands up to the test of time.

Anyone here try using gelatin?

thecurly1

Made a batch of good old FSG, then made a batch of okra gel blended them together! Its kinda a slimy snotty mixture! Only tryed it once so far but the shine is unbelievable !!!

would the abbreviation be FSOG lol

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Armed with the Curl Analyzes!!!
3b,3c
texture: Fine
porosity: Normal
elasticity: Low

co:wash: V05 kiwi lime, CJDF
condish: TS avocado and aloe, GPV cond balm, Yes to carrots
leave in: KCNT
styling: LOVE FSG.. CK, BRHG, CJCQ KCCC, LaLSG
protein: CJ rehab
http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlta...s-journey.html
And yes I'm turning into a PJ

missbanjo

Lol, why not? I was going to make some cleansing condish and leave-in but my back had other ideas Tues. morning so I didn't get squat done.

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Southern Colorado Curly
Mix of 2s med-low porosity, med-fine texture, lots of hair
Playing: Beautiful Curls curl activating cream & L/I
Clarify 1-2x a month, lo-poo once a week, cowash 2x a week
Regimen: dime SheaM C&H Milk, 2 nickels LOOB/Biotera Gel, dime SheaM Smoothie/dime SheaM C&H milk mixed, plop overnight, 2 nickels BRHG, diffuse 10 minutes

missbanjo

My cleansing condish was pretty good but a little too waxy so I'm shelving that recipe for a little bit, it had soapwort extract in it for cleansing properties. It's all gone now and worked very very well. I decided to try soapwort extract and lemongrass extract in Tresemme Naturals Nourishing condish.
1 cup water
1 Tbsp dried soapwort root
1 Tbsp dried lemongrass
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1/2 cup condish
1/4 cup extract blend

We'll see how I like it and I'm eyeballing the SheaM African Black Soap condish now...

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Southern Colorado Curly
Mix of 2s med-low porosity, med-fine texture, lots of hair
Playing: Beautiful Curls curl activating cream & L/I
Clarify 1-2x a month, lo-poo once a week, cowash 2x a week
Regimen: dime SheaM C&H Milk, 2 nickels LOOB/Biotera Gel, dime SheaM Smoothie/dime SheaM C&H milk mixed, plop overnight, 2 nickels BRHG, diffuse 10 minutes

madametj

What is BTMS? Didn't see it on the acronym cheat sheet.

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Hair Type: 3b/3c (I think! lol)

Quit using heat 9 months ago

missbanjo

Behentrimonium Methosulfate


I also cooked up some okra mudd this week. Used it once so far so not sure on it yet. I started from Kathymack's recipe of
1/2 cup okra (used frozen)
1 cup water
1 teas marshmallow

I kept adding 1 cup water & boiling after straining until I made 3 cups. Then added:

1 Tbsp magnesium chloride
1 1000mg tablet vitamin E
1 1/2 tsp agave nectar
2 1 4 tsp Optiphen preservative
6 drops lavendar EO
6 drops rosemary EO
2 tsp xanthan gum

I wasn't going to add the EOs but it really did have the okra stench before I added them.

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Southern Colorado Curly
Mix of 2s med-low porosity, med-fine texture, lots of hair
Playing: Beautiful Curls curl activating cream & L/I
Clarify 1-2x a month, lo-poo once a week, cowash 2x a week
Regimen: dime SheaM C&H Milk, 2 nickels LOOB/Biotera Gel, dime SheaM Smoothie/dime SheaM C&H milk mixed, plop overnight, 2 nickels BRHG, diffuse 10 minutes

Gretchen

Hey everyone! Since you're all recipe-crafters, I wanted to ask you to please share your fantastic curly hair recipes with all the other NaturallyCurly visitors in our new recipes section! Lisa Price from Carol's Daughter is sponsoring it and we've got amazing curly hair recipes for all hair types!

Check it out and add your recipes, please!

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Gretchen
NaturallyCurly.com co-founder
3A

You are beautiful!

Fmasuhr

i made a mix of aleo vera gel honey tea tree and a bit argan oil, left it in my hair for an hour. i was just playing round with it, and its the first time ive done somthing like that so im still figuring out wat my hair likes. i found that it was really good at untangling and when i washed it out i was left with a really clean scalp but my hair wasnt really softer or smoother or shinyer......

sweetmx85

I made flax seed gel for the first time, just 2 cups water 1/4 cup flax seed added a little castor oil and lavender eo. i really want to find vitamin e oil to put in next time but im not sure what to buy or where yet

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