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bluefoxicy
My hair is really friggin' nasty lately because I've been water-only washing it (besides that I sometimes skip a day for showers in the winter--and in the summer wind up taking anywhere from 2-6 in the same day augh). I shower at night and in the morning it's super greasy!
But I started that Monday, it's been 4 days. I'll give it 2 weeks for improvement and maybe a month to see how it turns out.
The other attempt I want to make is Castor Oil and Olive Oil mix. Castor oil to strip the oils (loosen the aerated, hardened waxy Sebum and the nasty, bacteria-fermented stuff that smells horrible), olive oil to partially replace and also to expand the oil volume to resist the castor oil. The idea is that a volume of castor oil is only effective against so much volume of oil, thus you raise that volume with something benign or good for the hair/skin--say, olive oil--to not completely strip the scalp dry. The fresh oils act like a solvent for rancid and hardened oils as well, and effectively carry away all that crud (along with the dirt etc) as an emulsion, which fails to form an emulsion with water and thus is easily rinsed away. In other words, the nasty stuff gets gooped up in the olive oil, and the water washes the olive oil and nasty stuff away.
That is of course semi-personalized and difficult to get right: a different blend is needed for a different amount of sebum in the hair and scalp, and you need enough sebum to keep the excess oils from sticking to the hair (i.e. more castor oil rinses away more oil, so more olive oil leaves more oil behind by over-dampening the castor oil).
Does anyone have any experience with this and any general guidelines for a good starting point with C/O oil ratios? Also any harm in using Pinaud hair tonic with these methods (for fragrance as well as hold)?
But I started that Monday, it's been 4 days. I'll give it 2 weeks for improvement and maybe a month to see how it turns out.
The other attempt I want to make is Castor Oil and Olive Oil mix. Castor oil to strip the oils (loosen the aerated, hardened waxy Sebum and the nasty, bacteria-fermented stuff that smells horrible), olive oil to partially replace and also to expand the oil volume to resist the castor oil. The idea is that a volume of castor oil is only effective against so much volume of oil, thus you raise that volume with something benign or good for the hair/skin--say, olive oil--to not completely strip the scalp dry. The fresh oils act like a solvent for rancid and hardened oils as well, and effectively carry away all that crud (along with the dirt etc) as an emulsion, which fails to form an emulsion with water and thus is easily rinsed away. In other words, the nasty stuff gets gooped up in the olive oil, and the water washes the olive oil and nasty stuff away.
That is of course semi-personalized and difficult to get right: a different blend is needed for a different amount of sebum in the hair and scalp, and you need enough sebum to keep the excess oils from sticking to the hair (i.e. more castor oil rinses away more oil, so more olive oil leaves more oil behind by over-dampening the castor oil).
Does anyone have any experience with this and any general guidelines for a good starting point with C/O oil ratios? Also any harm in using Pinaud hair tonic with these methods (for fragrance as well as hold)?