Homemade Treatment Effectiveness Poll

**SpinDance** · January 18th, 2011, 10:38 AM

For the past year I've used SMT, Fox's Shea Butter Cream as needed for extra deep treatments or smoothing. I've been doing deep oilings more regularly, at least once, sometimes twice, a week for longer than that. I missed the recipe for Kimberlily’s Coconut Hair Butter till now, but have been making a mixture of about equal amounts of coconut oil and Shea butter, melted, add about 15% of that volume of jojoba oil and/or sweet almond oil with a bit (maybe 5% of the original coconut/Shea blend) of Better Botanicals Herbal Hair Oil added. This blend makes a soft cream, which I mostly use on my skin, but sometimes also put on my hair overnight. I've been making this for just a few months, but it has been working fine.

**kidari** · June 14th, 2011, 10:23 PM

I've been using coconut oil as a prewash all the time very lightly on the ends and a heavy oiling about once a week for a year now. Nothing else has worked better for my hair that I've tried thus far. I'm really excited to try the SMT this month for the first time. With heavy oilings, I've been doing them more frequently for over 2 months now and the more often I do them, the more my hair is happy. In the last month I experimented mixing it with olive oil in conjunction with the coconut oil and my hair loves it even more than the coconut oil by itself. It's thicker, glossier, and all around more manageable with heavy oilings.

**celebriangel** · June 15th, 2011, 11:03 AM

Sometimes my hair just feels dry and brittle and tangly - normally when I get ill. Deep oilings with EVOO are great for these times.

SMTs are nothing short of miraculous. I shove a finger-scoop of panacea salve in them these days as well for extra awesomeness.

**Amber_Maiden** · June 15th, 2011, 02:52 PM

Definitely deep oil....

**swearnsue** · March 18th, 2012, 09:16 PM

I have been doing deep oilings consistantly for about 8 months and it's made my hair so much healthier and thicker. I used to have dry F hair and now I'm a M and hair is shiny and smooth. I use some oil I made up, Castor, Coconut, Olive, Sesame, some Rosemary oil I made with Castor oil and sunshine, some EOs like clove, patchouli, clary sage and sweet orange. The first 2 months I had lots of baby hairs come in all over my scalp. I still see baby hairs come in but as many as those first months. I massage the oil into my scalp and hair and leave in for a couple of hours then shampoo out. I do this with OCD regularity twice a week!