Re: Catnip for split ends?
I thought I'd appraise everyone on my catnip experiments recently.
I decided to try my catnip infusion as a CO the other day. I wet down my hair in the shower and squeezed out the excess, poured catnip in like normal and massaged it a bit, leaving it on like a normal treatment, bagged for an hour. When I rinsed in the shower I massaged my scalp a bit more, rinsed, and then did a distilled water final rinse. I put just a tad bit more in as a leave in.
As a leave in, I'm not sure I'm going to like it, it was just ok. But my hair doesn't seem to like leave ins of any kind, other than several types of oils.
As a CO though.....I'm adding this one into my regimine for sure. :D I will probably replace at least one wash with this. My hair behaved like it had been cleansed, very fluffy and soft. My scalp felt soothed and felt clean like I had washed. I had very little sebum-y smell, even after day 2. The only thing was my bang area was a bit oily looking and separated still. That's easily remedied though...I will occasionally spot clean them anyway. That's where my hair first shows the greasies and shows them the worst as well. Yesterday I spot cleaned my bangs only and put in a little argan oil....my hair looked and felt soft and smooth all day and no separating of the bang area.
:cheese: for catnip!
Re: Catnip for split ends?
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Originally Posted by
rymorg2
I thought I'd appraise everyone on my catnip experiments recently.
I decided to try my catnip infusion as a CO the other day. I wet down my hair in the shower and squeezed out the excess, poured catnip in like normal and massaged it a bit, leaving it on like a normal treatment, bagged for an hour. When I rinsed in the shower I massaged my scalp a bit more, rinsed, and then did a distilled water final rinse. I put just a tad bit more in as a leave in.
As a leave in, I'm not sure I'm going to like it, it was just ok. But my hair doesn't seem to like leave ins of any kind, other than several types of oils.
As a CO though.....I'm adding this one into my regimine for sure. :D I will probably replace at least one wash with this. My hair behaved like it had been cleansed, very fluffy and soft. My scalp felt soothed and felt clean like I had washed. I had very little sebum-y smell, even after day 2. The only thing was my bang area was a bit oily looking and separated still. That's easily remedied though...I will occasionally spot clean them anyway. That's where my hair first shows the greasies and shows them the worst as well. Yesterday I spot cleaned my bangs only and put in a little argan oil....my hair looked and felt soft and smooth all day and no separating of the bang area.
:cheese: for catnip!
This is intriguing! I suggest for spot cleaning your bangs, try washing them with catnip but rinse it out right away. And if necessary, do it twice.
That is what I do to remove sumblock on my face.
If you are washing with shampoo and bagging catnip once during the week, for the next wash with catnip only, theoretically you should just be able to wash and go, no bagging or timing of any length required. You have already conditioned with it once deeply, post shampooing.
Re: Catnip for split ends?
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ktani
This is intriguing! I suggest for spot cleaning your bangs, try washing them with catnip but rinse it out right away. And if necessary, do it twice.
That is what I do to remove sumblock on my face.
If you are washing with shampoo and bagging catnip once during the week, for the next wash with catnip only, theoretically you should just be able to wash and go, no bagging or timing of any length required. You have already conditioned with it once deeply, post shampooing.
I'll definately try that.
That's true, but I'm trying to get as much goodness out of the 'nip as I can now, to speed up results LOL. In a pinch though if I'm short on time I'll keep that in mind too.
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rymorg2
I'll definately try that.
That's true, but I'm trying to get as much goodness out of the 'nip as I can now, to speed up results LOL. In a pinch though if I'm short on time I'll keep that in mind too.
True. This is all theory on my part. I have yet to try catnip this way. I am so set into my routine, lol and I have been stretching out hair washings. I can now go almost a week without my hair getting too oily but it depends on my diet.
I do know for sure that if I start to wash my hair more frequently again (twice a week), that one of the washes will be catnip only.
My skin gets clean with it but never dried out (I use my hair dilution) and the fact that catnip can remove my oil based sunblock, still amazes me, but it does.
Re: Catnip for split ends?
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ktani
True. This is all theory on my part. I have yet to try catnip this way. I am so set into my routine, lol and I have been stretching out hair washings. I can now go almost a week without my hair getting too oily but it depends on my diet.
I do know for sure that if I start to wash my hair more frequently again (twice a week), that one of the washes will be catnip only.
My skin gets clean with it but never dried out (I use my hair dilution) and the fact that catnip can remove my oil based sunblock, still amazes me, but it does.
That's what I'm hoping....to stretch my washes a bit more but we'll see. The very fact that I can go for 2-3 days between is good enough.
Re: Catnip for split ends?
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rymorg2
That's what I'm hoping....to stretch my washes a bit more but we'll see. The very fact that I can go for 2-3 days between is good enough.
It really will depend on someone's hair and scalp, how oily or not etc., as to how much one can or cannot stretch a wash but I find that catnip is perfect for me at my dilution and lately, even when I have used more shampoo than normal, my hair remains perfectly conditioned, for me.
Re: Catnip for split ends?
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ktani
It really will depend on someone's hair and scalp, how oily or not etc., as to how much one can or cannot stretch a wash but I find that catnip is perfect for me at my dilution and lately, even when I have used more shampoo than normal, my hair remains perfectly conditioned, for me.
That's wonderful ktani....I hope to get to that point eventually. It'll take some time though and I already see results.
Re: Catnip for split ends?
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rymorg2
That's wonderful ktani....I hope to get to that point eventually. It'll take some time though and I already see results.
Results are individual too and I am so glad for you that you have. I did at the beginning too but I need to and did wash out my build-up before thre best catnip results were apparent.
My hair is still improving with catnip. No downside for me yet. It has almost been about 4 years.
Re: Catnip for split ends?
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ktani
Results are individual too and I am so glad for you that you have. I did at the beginning too but I need to and did wash out my build-up before thre best catnip results were apparent.
My hair is still improving with catnip. No downside for me yet. It has almost been about 4 years.
That's terrific!
I forgot to add that when I did my CO I had ZERO breakage and very little shedding than even with the diluted DW. HOORAY!!!!!
Re: Catnip for split ends?
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rymorg2
That's terrific!
I forgot to add that when I did my CO I had ZERO breakage and very little shedding than even with the diluted DW. HOORAY!!!!!
That is very encouraging.
I still use shampoo but in the shower my hair no longer tangles when wet and I know that my hair is less stressed over all. My brealage is waaay down from what it was pre catnip, and even with catnip over 1.5 years ago. Increasing the timing did the latter for me.
