The Kinkdom of Kiya

I'm dragging my feet, hoping that TLHC comes back up before I try the caramel treatment. Hrm. Maybe I can find the cached page(s) on google. Or, the wayback machine.

Yeah, that'll work.

Anyhow, I finally made the order to lotioncrafters (they take paypal!!! :lol: :blush) without editing my order at all.

My next 'thing' is either going to be some hair 'growth' stuff - waiting to hear results on that one - or some bulk ayurvedic herbs. I made some SAF tea today, and I have two empty conditioner bottles worth in the fridge - plus I'm 'pre-conditioning' with the 'leftover' now.
Yes! There is a cached page! Here it is, with all of it's caramely goodness.

*settles down for a good reread*

The thread is twelve pages long, so it'll take me a bit. ;)

Okay. One of the first things I notice that she says (reading this thread with an eye towards tweaking the recipe perfectly to make up for the lack of wheat germ oil and to include measurements based on a two pack of banana baby food - a little over half a cup.... I think. Bugger. I need to figure out how much nanner I have).
Anyhow!

I think the purpose of the different oils is to get the unique benefit that each provides naturaly. You could probably substitute something equally good for wheatgerm oil. I think the whole point is to ustilize as many different natural conditioning agents as possible.
I don't ever use measuring cups, I do it all by "feel" and "eye", but for the fluids, I use one part each ingredient (all equal amounts), except for the water. I add that last, and only if I need it when it gets too viscous. Everything when mixed should fit into a medium sized bowl.

Red Palm oil is pretty darn moisturizing, so, so far, I'm feeling pretty good about using that as a sub for the wheat germ - and since it's semi-solid, it'll do nice in 'thickening' up this whole mixture.

Okay - I have seven ounces of babyfood bananas (FULLY RIPENED BANANAS, CITRIC ACID AND ASCORBIC ACID). The citric acid in it might make it even nicer for my hair. But - one part each ingredient - dude, that's a WHOLE lotta caramel. Even if I only use one of the baby food packs (3.5 ounces) that's still a lot. Let's say I use three ounces of each ingredient (I'd certainly only have to make a batch once every blue moon or so...)

3 oz coconut oil
3 oz olive oil
3 oz red palm oil
3 oz shea butter
3 oz honey
3 oz molasses
3 oz Apple cider vinegar
3 oz banana baby food
water (as needed to thin)

That's three CUPS of the stuff. Not bad, really, assuming I use a cup and a half each time, that's REALLY only two treatments.... which would be.... three months. Hrm, not bad at all - those two baby food things (for 1.07) will last me half the year. I should start calculating how much my hair stuff costs me.

*reading on*

Hrrm. I can only go to page 3 in the cache'd stuff, and the wayback machine only has the 'you are not logged in' screen. So.

*sigh*

I think that's going to be the recipie, then. Though, I think I might cut it down to 2 ounces each of everything but the banana. That's an even 1/4 cup, and will be MUCH easier to measure out.
So. Final recipe for tonights experiment (and it's almost 6pm already!) is:

1/4 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup red palm oil
1/4 cup shea butter
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup Apple cider vinegar
3.5 oz banana baby food
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup molasses
water (as needed to thin)

I'll melt the red palm and coconut oil, along with the shea butter - just to thin it out and warm them up a little. While those are melting, I'll blend together the bananas, olive oil, and ACV. I'll add the 'warm' oils to that, then add the honey and molasses to the whole mix. I plan on using the blender to do this - no sense overworking ;) I doubt I'll want to add any water, esp. considering that my hair will be damp from the SAF 'pre-poo' :lol:

Hrmmm...let me go and do this now.

BBL.

Oooh, that feels (and looks) NICE!! If it leaves my hair feeling anything like how my hands felt after putting it in - oh DREAMY.

Two things.
1) When I was drying my hair off after rinsing out the SAF tea and before putting in the CT, I realized that my hair was SHINY. No product, just smoothing my hair back from my forehead - SHINY.

2) So far this weekend, I haven't used ANY conditioner!! I've used all natural stuff, and if I can keep this up (assuming that when I rinse my hair out tomorrow, it feels perfect and fabulous, and I just use the AD to braid it up) I could almost make it through without conditioner! I say almost, because I would want to use the Kiya Pudding, and that has conditioner in it. *sigh* I don't know. It's really SO easy to use. But maybe once I have the Honeyquat and the SAA, I won't NEED the conditioner anymore?

I had accidentally measured out 1/3 cup of each of the 'solid' oils, so I have a little of those left over - I poured them into the old dark glass jar - I'm sure I'll find a use for them, at some point.