Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
Count me as another fan of this treatment. I used my regular conditioner (Joico Kpak Intense Hydrator) and it mixed up beautifully into a wonderful texture and smelled just heavenly. I had time to kill so I left it for about 3 hours.
Now I don't have particularly dry or damaged hair, which I guess is why I waited so long to try this, but when I rinsed it, my hair felt like virgin hair! It felt that good wet and dry! I'm definitely going to do this regularly... maybe once or twice a month? LOVED IT!!
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
How long can you store left over SMT?
BTW, I llloooooovvvveee this treatment. My hair adores it. I'm definitely keeping it in my regime. I'll be using this every other week and the weeks that I dont do it I'll be doing the carmel treatment. :cheese:
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
Just now trying this for the first time...after one and a half years being here! It felt great putting it on. Wonder how it'll turn out. My hair needs the moisturizing really badly.
ETA: I kept it on almost 2 hrs because I was on hold w/tech support for xbox live. It took a while to rinse it out but so far it feels less crunchy than before I did it. Texture of the mixture felt so good. I used an old bottle of Giovanni 50/50 conditioner which was useless as a regular conditioner. It didn't have near enough slip for my hair. But it seemed to work like a dream in SMT. I used Lily of the Desert Aloe, and regular old Kroger honey. 4 tablespoons conditioner, 1 tbsp honey, 1 tbsp aloe. I only coated from the ears down, not my scalp. I put a shower cap over the coated ends, and wrapped a towel around my whole head to keep it on.
Hmm, my hair feels like hair again :-)
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
Ok well I'm an idiot. I didn't realise you could leave a rinsed-out and dried SMT and not have to wash your hair again later. I thought it'd be like a heavy oiling, so I planned to wash my hair next morning, expecting my hair to be stringy. Well my ends were so soft and healthy-looking, I almost thought to myself I should leave the ends and just do a scalp wash.
I did my weekly full-wash. Now my ends feel like straw again! :justy:
Now that I read back through this thread, most people don't wash/condition again any time soon after an SMT.
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
I just tried SMT today and I love it! My hair is so soft now! I think I will use it once a week.
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
I am going to try the SMT for the first time tomorrow evening. I'm excited and anxious about it because I don't have a microwave to heat the concoction up in.
I would guess, though, that I can heat it in a glass bowl over simmering water. Is this an accurate guess?
Also, how much would one with my length hair (nearly classic, 38.5", thicker hair) use? I see many people posting something like 4 tbsp of conditioner, to 1 tbsp of the other ingredients. It seems, though, that this wouldn't be quite enough for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
Ok I should have read the conditioner list before trying AO honeysuckle rose.. Eugh! It looked like :puke: lol
Anyway.. I bought a nice *organic* honey especially for SMT (with a diff condish) and *typically* it resulted in icky horrible non-blendable chunks of goo.. only after it was heated in the microwave however. I didn't want to risk sticking unheated SMT on my head and later finding that either it lightened my hair or that it separated into chunks in my hair.. so I mized up another lot with cheapy-o store brand honey... and it worked perfectly :rolleyes:
So, what gives? You'd think more quality ingredients would be a good thing, no? Le sigh.
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
I'm thinking of giving this a try. I tried the HALO (I think?) rinse (sorry I don't know how to link that thread) and it didn't really work well for me. Perhaps it was me and not the ingredients?
I know many swear by this treatment, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed, that when I get around to it, I'll be in the SMT fan club! (o:
Hijack warning: Love your avatar BunnyBee!!!
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
I like SMTs too, I have never tried heating the honey or the mix and it works just fine. I have not noticed any lightening. I actually don't measure, just squirt a lot of conditioner on a small bowl, add almost as much honey, add not very much of aloe vera juice (works better than gel for me), mix, apply, let sit.
To the person who doesn't have microwave oven, sure you can heat the honey without it: boil water and put the honey in a heat proof container in the hot water so that the water doesn't get into the honey container. Cover. Stirr occasionally.
Re: The much-recommended SMT (Snowymoon's Moisture Treatment)
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BunnyBee
...so I mized up another lot with cheapy-o store brand honey... and it worked perfectly :rolleyes:
So, what gives? You'd think more quality ingredients would be a good thing, no? Le sigh.
That's interesting. I'm a honey snob when it comes to eating the stuff and I never usually buy the kind with the obscure 'product of USA' comment on the label.
I bought cheapie stuff and it worked well. But I did wonder about the quality of the honey....