PolarCathy
January 24th, 2011, 04:22 AM
Hi ladies and gents :)
I eat tons of blackberries and today I had this gut feeling to put some blackberry pulp into my hair/scalp. I found nothing about it with Google in about 20 minutes so I decided to go ahead and try it out. (Is it only me that has never heard of it?)
I am water-only and I thought, if nothing else, it would do good things for my scalp, it probably has a mild exfoliating effect (I am guessing here). I do not have any scalp issues but I thought that the iron, potassium etcetera content and the vitamins can't be bad. I know though that it contains salicylic acid which is very similar to the aspirin and Google spits out that aspirin does have such effects on itchy scalp (with dandruff also). I am not afraid of any coloring effect because my hair doesn't take the dye anyway since WO.
So what I did: I ate 2/3 of the stuff for breakfast :) and then the rest, I just put it in the mixer with a few drops of tea tree and lavender oil, and then poured the whole thing on my wet hair using gloves ;) (because I know it does color skin and nails pretty quickly), massaged it into my scalp, put on the shower cap and a towel, left it on for 20 minutes and rinsed with cold water. What do you think? (I don't know the results yet, my hair is damp yet.)
If my dry hair looks fine I will probably experiment with this thing like once a week or so to see if it accelerates hair growth. (I have read such things about aspirin.)
Thanks
polar
I eat tons of blackberries and today I had this gut feeling to put some blackberry pulp into my hair/scalp. I found nothing about it with Google in about 20 minutes so I decided to go ahead and try it out. (Is it only me that has never heard of it?)
I am water-only and I thought, if nothing else, it would do good things for my scalp, it probably has a mild exfoliating effect (I am guessing here). I do not have any scalp issues but I thought that the iron, potassium etcetera content and the vitamins can't be bad. I know though that it contains salicylic acid which is very similar to the aspirin and Google spits out that aspirin does have such effects on itchy scalp (with dandruff also). I am not afraid of any coloring effect because my hair doesn't take the dye anyway since WO.
So what I did: I ate 2/3 of the stuff for breakfast :) and then the rest, I just put it in the mixer with a few drops of tea tree and lavender oil, and then poured the whole thing on my wet hair using gloves ;) (because I know it does color skin and nails pretty quickly), massaged it into my scalp, put on the shower cap and a towel, left it on for 20 minutes and rinsed with cold water. What do you think? (I don't know the results yet, my hair is damp yet.)
If my dry hair looks fine I will probably experiment with this thing like once a week or so to see if it accelerates hair growth. (I have read such things about aspirin.)
Thanks
polar