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I've been using vinegar instead of conditioner and it works better than the conditioner! LOVE it! Also, I just donated my cut hair to Locks of Love and encourage anyone else to do the same. I think you have to have at least 2 inches cut off to donate.
 
I used apple cider vinegar on my hair last Friday (ran out of the white vinegar) and until now, my hair is still fantastically soft and smooth. But damn, I didnt realize how much STRONGER the smell would be...I thought it would be confined to my room and bathroom, but my housemates were able to smell it through the entire house ! (of course, some of them complained, they hate vinegar smell :p As for myself, Im quite used to it lol...) When I used white vinegar it never stunk up the place as bad. Ive since shampooed twice since then, and I can still smell traces of that sour smell on my hair. Kinda gross but worth it ;)
 
n3ophy7e said:
Yeah it was fine actually!! My skin was actually a little dry after only washing with water.....go figure?!
I'll try again this morning :)

I'm not sure if this product is just in Australasia but anyone who is up for trying a new lip treatment, TRY THIS!!:
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It's just divine <3
And it can be used for dry skin, small cuts and grazes, insect bites etc.
SO GOOD!!
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nooooo neo - Paw Paw is actually bad for your lips! Read more here.
 
Says one person who writes a beauty column. If I listened to everything I read telling me that I shouldnt use this or that blablabla, I'd go out of my mind. :p BUT...you may be on to something. I myself use non petroleum based lip products...I find coconut oil based and beeswax based products moisturize my lips the best.
 
joannie_mhm said:
nooooo neo - Paw Paw is actually bad for your lips! Read more here.
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Interesting joannie, thanks for the link!
Weird though, my lips certainly aren't dried-out from using it. In fact, I have to apply the ointment way less frequently than when I was using Blistex...
 
There's been a lot said about the good/bad benefits of Lucas' Paw Paw Ointment. I stopped using it because I trust joannie (and my flatmate's) advice when it comes to this sort of thing, however, I have to say that over New Years when my lips got extremely wind and sun burnt to the point of blistering, it was the ONLY thing that provided any relief at all. I highly recommend it if your lips are actually damaged.
 
mariacallas said:
Says one person who writes a beauty column. If I listened to everything I read telling me that I shouldnt use this or that blablabla, I'd go out of my mind. :p BUT...you may be on to something. I myself use non petroleum based lip products...I find coconut oil based and beeswax based products moisturize my lips the best.
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I use jojoba oil, plain. But recently I felt the pull of a pre-made lip gloss in a tube by Alba Bontanica (Terragloss). It's just been so long since I got one. It uses non-petroleum stuff and mineral tint, with a good vanilla flavor. My boyfriend still makes fun of me when I use it ("not like me"), but I love it. Reminds me of my Lipsmackers/glitter mascara days.
 
Here is where I start talking about LUSH again. ;)

They've been making amazing solid shampoo and conditioner for years. I've linked to the Australian site, but there's also the US LUSH.
All of their products are cruelty free and derived from natural products wherever possible and I can personally vouch for the quality of their products.

I have used Ultimate Shine as a shampoo [full of violet leaf, ylang ylang and elemi essential oils], Jungle as a conditioner [with bananas, figs and cocoa butter to soften your hair; kumquats and passionfruit to make it shine; Avocados for vitamins; oil and protein to protect] and Hsuan Wen Hua as a leave-in-conditioner [with more avocado, vinegar and watercress] on and off for years.

I tend to alternate between LUSH and other brands of haircare as I've found as the seasons change, so do the needs of my hair. My hair-dressers have all agreed that it's a good idea to swap brands every once in a while to give your hair what it's craving. Dry hair can sometimes start to feel oily, and vice versa.

Exerpt from the website:
We believe in making effective products out of fresh fruit and vegetables,
the finest essential oils and safe synthetics,
without animal ingredients,
and in writing the quantitative ingredient list in English as well as Latin on the outside.

We also believe in buying only from companies that test for safety
without the involvement of animals
and in testing our products on humans.

We believe in making our own fresh products by hand,
printing our own labels and making our own fragrances.

We believe in long candlelit baths,
massage, filling the house with perfume
and in the right to make mistakes, lose everything and start again.

We believe that our products should be good value,
that we should make a profit
and that the customer is always right.
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Mz_Thizzle said:
That seems like it would be really drying to hair, have you tried it with success?
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Yes. I mentioned earlier using a pounded plant to shampoo my hair, as was done here for centuries before shampoo. Usually you can leave lemon juice on your hair for about a minute and rinse it off, in place of conditioner. I reckon intuitively you would think vinegar dries the hair too :D
 
Dtergent said:
Yes. I mentioned earlier using a pounded plant to shampoo my hair, as was done here for centuries before shampoo. Usually you can leave lemon juice on your hair for about a minute and rinse it off, in place of conditioner. I reckon intuitively you would think vinegar dries the hair too :D
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No because vinegar is a base, which is what soap is anyway, but I would imagine that the acidity of lemon juice is what would dry out your hair.

Using pounded plants sounds like a good idea, thats pretty much what it sounds like the LUSH product that COTB described does. I might give that a try.
 
Vinegar is an acid I think! :)

The vine we pound is called gugo, it gets a bit lathery when pounded. We throw in lemongrass stems for good fragrance and then put lemon in the rinsing water. Works well (if you have time). I'm sure there is some counterpart. Hibiscus flowers can be used also!
 
My mistake! It appears you are right. I was thinking back to some middle school science projects and must have remembered wrong. Shows how much I learned :| lol
 
Wait - how do you use the hibiscus flowers??? Do you make a tea first and then rinse with it??? This sounds like something I want to try.......

We are going to make our first attempt at making lip balm.......I had bought a lip balm base a while back (just beeswax ,Olive oil, and Carnauba wax).....we just got the tubes and some other stuff to add in- I'm so excited:) All the lip balm talk had me getting even more excited.
 
^Ah, careful not to get it too hard with the beeswax! I gave up altogether but a friend makes some and has to do some remelting and whatnot.

Just pound the flowers in water. You can use the leaves too, but the flowers have more soapy stuff. These should make a lather or slimy thing.

(We used them to make bubbles when we were kids! Get a bendy stick (the middle of a coconut leaf usually) and form a ring and dip it into the water-flower mixture. Blow bubbles!)

I forgot to say that before the vine thing I usually put coconut oil in my hair and lay out in the sun or do some garden work. The vine is a good cleaner-- it can dry your hair. I think it's probably a bit like soap nuts. The coconut oil + vine thing is perfect, plus some lemon.

It is the ultimate luxury for me to be able to do this for more than 4 days straight. I wish I had more time :p
 
^ How many flowers do I use???
I have Hibiscus flowers but they are dried and kind of small-

And as for the lip balm-I'm more nervous about it being too runny!!!! ahahah I've been thinking that all evening- I am adding essential oils-vitamin E and almond oil to a base.......(which is the beeswax mix) - Do you know when you did it how much oil you put in? I am putting them into tubes so if they are too runny it will ruin all the tubes!!! I'm nervous. We are going to try it tomorrow I think.
 
I'm not sure about the dried flowers. We use only the fresh ones. I would suppose that it's not an oil component that makes lather/bubbles but something that dries out along with time. Dried leaves and flowers are not eligible. SOrry :D I think those are better to make into tea!

I think if you are using beeswax it is not so much worry. In my experience that gets pretty hard! I used cocoa butter too, but not enough. Don't worry though, just experiment. You can always re-melt it and add a bit more off something.
 
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