Category Archives: Treatments and Recipes

How to Use Castor Oil for Hair Growth

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Growing natural hair requires patience and tender love and care.  I remember when I had my big chop!  There was a time when my hair was growing really fast and a time when things went on a plateau.  The plateau phase is so frustrating for hair growth!  It’s like watching paint dry all day.  I guess I was Ms. Impatient until I started a hair regimen that actually showed results.  Continue reading

The Baggy Hair Method Explained and a Simple How To

Happy Thursday lovelies. Today’s topic is an important one if you have curly dry hair , have breakage, or simply just want to acheive longer hair and retain length. The baggy method can really give you the results you want but only if its done right. This particular hair care method works by helping to add moisture back to your strands and this helps to prevent breakage and encourages your hair to grow.

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 Now here’s how to do the ponytail/ bun and full head baggy method in order to get the results you want: Continue reading

My Experience With The Henna Hair Treatment: What a MESS!

So a week ago and after reading on a few blogs and watching a few videos on Youtube, I decided to take the plunge and do a Henna treatment on my hair. Needless to say it was a hot mess!

Items you will need for the Henna TreatmentHenna for hair.

1. A large bowl

2. At least 150g of Organic Henna

3. A dirty old towel/ T-shirt

4. Distilled water

5. Carrier Oil

6. Essential Oil

7. Wooden spoon/Spatula

8. Gloves

How I mixed the Henna treatment: Continue reading

Top 7 Home Remedies For Long Hair Growth

Natural hair questions.Looking for more natural ways to grow longer hair? Using home remedies for hair growth is an option that will always be available to you. Why? Many of the home remedies for long hair are easily accessible, not to mention most of the ingredients you will need do not cost a fortune!

Its been long thought that women needed to buy super expensive salon shampoos, conditioners and treatments in order to properly care of their hair. This couldn’t be further from the truth, most of the expensive salon products available in the market today, contain key ingredients that you can easily find in your local health foods store or even right inside your kitchen cupboards.

Check out the natural home remedies below whether you’re struggling with hair loss or simply just want to find out about the various ways to grow longer hair. Continue reading

Growing Long Hair: Olive Oil for Hair Growth

Natural oils for natural hair. When it comes to growing your hair, there’s a connection between growing long hair and using olive oil for hair growth. Even if  you already have some sort of minor, moderate or severe hair damage, and even if you feel as if you have  already lost hope for healthy long hair, fear not, you can still nurture and take good care of your hair in order to stimulate healthy hair growth all while using non chemical, safe and highly effective methods.

Women love it when their hair looks good. Whether this includes styling one’s hair using hair curlers, coloring their hair, relaxing the hair, perming the hair or straightening it using other methods etc. – the truth is hair is a big fashion statement to most women. Although changing your hair color and hair style can and usually does look chic and stylish, some of the hair products you may be using can have high concentrations of chemicals which cause more harm than good to your hair if used for a prolonged period of time.

You can grow long hair with olive oil since its an effective natural method you can use in order to achieve healthy, long hair growth. Keep reading to find out more about the benefits of using olive oil for hair.

Is Olive Oil Good for Long Hair Growth? Continue reading

Get Rid of Hair Breakage With Herb Rinsing!

I’m done wearing box braids for a while simply because after a while, even though my hair did grow a few inches from wearing these braids, overtime I started to notice that my hair was breaking and shedding like CRAZY after taking off the box braids.  Once I took off the braids, any length and growth I’d gained was lost and  there would be tiny small broken hairs on the bathroom sink and floor if i ever combed my hair!

So what did I do? I started using heavy protein treatments and various other products that claimed to reduce shedding and control breakage, sadly all I got was increased shedding and my hair became very dry.  So a few months later I started to look into aryuvedic hair treatment methods Continue reading