Wind-in-Tree
April 25th, 2009, 08:13 PM
Hello everyone, I hope that someone here may be able to answer my question about cassia?
Although I do not post often, I am a regular visitor of the forum.
I have learned a lot since I came here and have more faith that my hair will recover past hair loss.
As a girl I always had long hair, probably about waist length.
Now, I feel that I am back to who I am supposed to be and am trying to reach that length again.
At this moment my hair isn't quite at apl but is getting thicker.
The end are quite 'fairytaly' and thin but are not split or dry.
I have a very basic hair routine, mostly common sense care.
I oil every day with coconut oil, am careful when handling my hair and am wearing it up all the time in either an French or a Dutch braid.
After reading about cassia here on the forum, I thought it might be the exact thing my hair needs to get through difficult times, maybe just in my head....patience is not one of my virtues...not when it comes to my hair anyway.
My hair is shiny and looks good, just thin from mainly going through stressful times in my life. But the promise of having thicker hair seemed exactly what I needed.
My sister was kind enough to send me two different kinds of cassia from Europe.
One 'treatment' ( just the amount necessary for one treatment) from the store's own brand which they just scoop out of a big jar and another from Henne Color, Paris.
I used the last cassia, Henne Color, and my hair didn't really respond.
It almost seemed thinner and fell out after I had rinsed the cassia.
It was very shiny but not thick at all.
Not worth going through all the mess, I thought.
But I was looking at the ingredients of the package and am wondering now if this was really cassia and if the other ingredients may have had something to do with the sleekness of my hair, which was nice but I was really looking for some added strength.
The ingredients of the Henne Color are:
Chinchona, Cassia Italica, Rosemarinus officinalis, Thymus vulgaris, Betula alba, Urtica diolca, Lawsonia inermis.
Clearly there are herbs added but could they be the cause of not gaining any added strength?
Maybe I should try again with the 'plain' cassia?
I would really like to treat my hair with a little help from cassia but why bother if it only seems to make me lose more hair right after the cassia treatment?
Any help will absolutely be appreciated! :)
Although I do not post often, I am a regular visitor of the forum.
I have learned a lot since I came here and have more faith that my hair will recover past hair loss.
As a girl I always had long hair, probably about waist length.
Now, I feel that I am back to who I am supposed to be and am trying to reach that length again.
At this moment my hair isn't quite at apl but is getting thicker.
The end are quite 'fairytaly' and thin but are not split or dry.
I have a very basic hair routine, mostly common sense care.
I oil every day with coconut oil, am careful when handling my hair and am wearing it up all the time in either an French or a Dutch braid.
After reading about cassia here on the forum, I thought it might be the exact thing my hair needs to get through difficult times, maybe just in my head....patience is not one of my virtues...not when it comes to my hair anyway.
My hair is shiny and looks good, just thin from mainly going through stressful times in my life. But the promise of having thicker hair seemed exactly what I needed.
My sister was kind enough to send me two different kinds of cassia from Europe.
One 'treatment' ( just the amount necessary for one treatment) from the store's own brand which they just scoop out of a big jar and another from Henne Color, Paris.
I used the last cassia, Henne Color, and my hair didn't really respond.
It almost seemed thinner and fell out after I had rinsed the cassia.
It was very shiny but not thick at all.
Not worth going through all the mess, I thought.
But I was looking at the ingredients of the package and am wondering now if this was really cassia and if the other ingredients may have had something to do with the sleekness of my hair, which was nice but I was really looking for some added strength.
The ingredients of the Henne Color are:
Chinchona, Cassia Italica, Rosemarinus officinalis, Thymus vulgaris, Betula alba, Urtica diolca, Lawsonia inermis.
Clearly there are herbs added but could they be the cause of not gaining any added strength?
Maybe I should try again with the 'plain' cassia?
I would really like to treat my hair with a little help from cassia but why bother if it only seems to make me lose more hair right after the cassia treatment?
Any help will absolutely be appreciated! :)