NATURAL RECIPES FOR CLARIFYING (CG) - Page 2

HalfWavyHalfCurly · 05-11-2007, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by curly-oreo

Hey thanks for posting those recipes, do you have any more from the curly girl book?

There are several others in the CG book but few are really popular, here's a couple of the ones that seem to work best:

ALOE AROMA SCALP THERAPY

After you've rinsed or shampooed your hair in warm water, apply 1 tbsp. aloe vera gel to your scalp. (Use the edible type of AVG, the kind that has to be refrigerated after opening.) Massage gently for several minutes. Rinse hair and condition as usual. Or leave in, as an alternative to hair gel.

*I was once was told by a woman with pretty kinky hair that she left AVG taken directly from the plant one day or more and after she rinsed it off and did a roller set her hair was (temporarily) straight and shiny as she'd never had it before.

AVOCADO WRAP

1 ripe avocado
3-4 tsp. honey
8-10 drops almond oil

1. Peel and core the avocado, then mix in a blender with other ingredients.
2. Apply to wet hair, concentrating on the ends.
3. Wrap hair with clear plastic wrap or towel. Leave on for 20-30 mins.
4. Rinse thoroughly with warm water.

There's also "Love Is In The Hair" and you can find it here: http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlta...ic.php?t=91394

Mamacurl3 · 12-27-2007, 02:31 PM

Just giving this a bump. I think I'm going to try the no-poo on myself and my daughter. Her head gets really sweaty and smelly in the summer, will these help with that? Or is she doomed to be a smelly no/low-poo kid?

CurlyBrunetteGirl · 12-29-2007, 10:46 PM

I used the baking soda rinse, and my hair looked fantastic. I think my conditioner builds up easily, so I need to do this every two weeks or so. But I have color treated hair, so will the BS strip the color?

mamaherrera · 07-14-2011, 02:11 PM

Do you all think co-washes are enough to get hairsprays/gels out fo the hair daily??

Anyone find that the lemon juice causes hair to get lighter, cuz |I don't want that

Also, do you all think that the clarifying rinses get down to the scalp, as you can't rub them if they just fall through the hair??

finally, what's a good applicator to use to get teh baking soda in the hair??? when I was using a spray bottle it took me over a half hour to get all that stuff in my hair, just by little squirts.
Any suggestions??

bliss611 · 07-18-2011, 09:04 AM

Thanks so much for this! And for bumping it up - very helpful!

Only thing is I'm not sure which one to use...

I am mod-CG - I generally lo-poo 1x per week. Lately been lo-poo-ing a bit more (every 4-5 days or so) with the heat causing a greasier scalp and using more products to keep the frizz away in high humidity/dew points.

But I still have a gunky feel to my scalp and I don't want to lo-poo more than I am. I am also using a John Masters pomade to fight frizz and it has beeswax in it.

So just wondering, which of these rinses would be the best for my situation with greasies on the scalp and possibly waxy build-up on the strand?

TIA!!!

mamaherrera · 02-20-2012, 06:21 PM

I know this post from bliss 611 was a year ago, but I would also like to know which one of these recipes is best for waxy/perhaps product buildup?? Or maybe a baking soda rinse followed by a lemon rinse?? Is a baking soda rinse better or less effective than a baking soda scrub???

Devushka · 02-26-2012, 07:36 AM

I'm pretty exclusively CG and can report what works for MY hair in case it helps with yours.

I love baso washes followed by ACV rinses. I always mix my baking soda in with the conditioner I'm cowashing with (often just basic conditioners like VO5 or Suave Naturals which are CG) instead of mixing it with just water as the recipe several posts ago said. When I'm cowashing with baso, I mostly focus on massaging it on my scalp but do a pumping/scrunching motion with the mixture on the length of my hair because I don't want to do a harsh "scrub" with the baso on the cuticle of my hair. (<-- So maybe what I do is something halfway between a rinse and a scrub.) I always rinse well with water and then rinse with ACV mixture. My scalp and hair feel great afterwards!

Again, I'm pretty thoroughly CG, so I don't get a lot of product build up, and so periodic baso washes and ACV rinses are all I've needed when I want to clarify. I don't use products with beeswax in them since I generally haven't liked how my hair felt afterwards, so I don't know how well baso/ACV works for clarifying beeswax buildup.