vegan yogurt-like products for hair masks ???

[Arctic]

Hmmm, I have some soy protein isolate and also normal soy flour AND chickpea flour ("gram flour"). I wonder how those would be like as masks! I don't know for sure, but i would think protein isolates would have smaller molecule size, no?

[woolyleprechaun]

Thanks. So that's why woolyleprechaun brought up fenugreeks in the context of this thread (vegan non-dairy yogurt) because the popular way of using them is mixed with dairy yogurt. I have to say I was a little perplexed as what the fenugreeks got to do with non-dairy yogurt, but now I sort of understand.

Yes, that was the connection! I could have been a little clearer there... You know when you are having a discussion with yourself and forget that others can't hear it? Yeah, that happened.
But anyway, I have no experience of vegan yoghurt substitutes being used on hair, mainly because all the yoghurt substitutes I've ever purchased have been made from substances with no known benefits.

[truepeacenik]

Hmm... What about skipping the fermenting and thickening and going straight to the protein liquid, with a thickener? Like agar?
The flours are a possibility. Using soy flour in soy milk (or whatever sub you use)?
I'm trying to remember if cooking enlarges or shrinks protein molecules.

And yes, isolates are smaller.