How to use oil and how to get it off when you used too much
I have super-low porosity hair and last night I put the 1/4 teaspoon of castor oil in my 1/2 cup of 1:2 acv-water mixture, shook, and then put on my hair, and left in. It was too much and now my hair is a total greaseball. It's oily and I brush and brush but it doesn't really untangle. HOW DO I GET IT OUT
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I put the castor oil/avc-water mixture in my hair.
Hair looked greasy. Felt greasy. Could not brush out some tangles.
Night 2:
bs wash (1:16 baking soda:water, plus 1/8 tesp salt),
rinse,
honey wash (1 tbsp honey, 3 tbsp filtered water),
rinse,
another bs wash, same as before
avc-water scrub and soak for 2 minutes (1:2),
rinse,
splash of avc-water on hair only (1:4),
left in,
eventually dipped bottom 3 inches of hair in avc-water (1:2),
also left in (hair was still wet so this was further diluted by gravity)
I really scrubbed with all of these steps, and since the castor oil was all over my scalp and hair, I also scrubbed my hair length with the bs both times, which is not a recommended thing to do.
My hair was shiny and clean when I was done, but very dry and quite brittle, so I decided not to brush it just yet. I probably could have done it, as my hair was pretty healthy and strong to begin with (so my definition of 'bad' might still mean my hair is a lot more healthy than yours when you call it 'bad'), but I am not the most patient brusher. Even while still drying, I could tell that my ends felt oddly rough and dry.
Morning of 3rd day of Ordeal:
blended juicy pulp from 1 large freshly cut aloe leaf, 1/3 cup of honey, 3 egg yolks (totaling about 1 cup of thick mix the density of gravy but more viscous like syrup), (wanted to add yogurt but didn't have plain, sugar free)
scrubbed hair length and scalp for 2 minutes,
let soak for 15 minutes, (easy to do)
avc-water soak for 2 minutes (1:2),
rinse,
splash of avc-water on hair only (1:4),
left in,
dipped bottom 3 inches of hair in avc-water (1:2),
left in
Froze leftover half cup of gunk for next oil mishap. My hair is nearly belt length and this was enough for two servings.
Hair was shiny, soft, moisturized, and easy to untangle everywhere except the two-day old tangles. Used wide-toothed comb. My hair tips were still oddly dry and rough, but nowhere near as much as before. I did brush a half dozen tiny pieces of aloe tissue/pulp from my hair. They came out easily while my hair was still wet. (I don't know if that would change if I had let my hair completely dry first or if I had found pieces in hair later after it was dry. I *think* it would still come out easily from dry hair.)
Morning of 4th day of Ordeal:
Hair is still soft, shiny, moisturized, easy to untangle. Hair tips still slightly more dry/rough than normal, but very acceptable.
There's no reason you have to space out the washes like I did. I would have dipped my hair tips in some other kind of oil, like maybe coconut, if I had some, but what I ordered is still in the mail.
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Maybe 17 minutes, just to be on the safe side, to make sure that the last spot on your scalp/hair where cleaner was applied has had 15 min to soak.
That's how long it takes hair shafts to absorb whatever cleanser you put on it, which means an 8 minute soak, or even two 8 min soaks, won't be nearly as effective as one lasting twice as long.
Maybe I wouldn't have had to do some many steps on my hair (to get all the oil out and rescue my hair from what I did to it to get everything out) if I had applied this technique to my baking soda and/or honey washes, but I didn't learn it until after I started researching about natural conditioners because of what the over-washing did.
Also, between bs and honey washes, I didn't check my hair to try to determine if all/enough of the castor oil was gone. I decided beforehand that I was going to do x, y, and z to remove oil and then did it because I wanted the oil OUT! So maybe I could have stopped with only one bs wash.
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