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Originally Posted by ktani
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Yeah I've seen it, Thanks :flower:Quote:
Originally Posted by ktani
Do not make catnip tea when you are overtired or distracted. I made a batch the other night and made a dilution of just under 350 ml of boiled ater. I did not realize exactly what I did until I filled my shampoo bottle. I did not have the time to experiment. I dumped it down the sink and started over. I thought that it looked like too much water, when it was in the mug. I hate waste, lol.
I have never used an under eye cream or lotion. My skin is fairly sensitive and most such products either make my eyes puffy or the skin irritated.
I have been continuing to dab on catnip tea around and under my eyes after washing my face with it, and leaving the dabbed on tea, unrinsed off. Results? No irritation or puffiness, the skin all around my eyes is moisturized and the dark circles I can get when I am overtired, are gone.
Please for give me, I skimmed the thread but didn't see any thing about results with catnip and cassia.
Has anyone used catnip and cassia? I would also be interested how it compares to chamomile and cassia if someone's used both.
An update:
On Friday, I washed my hair with one egg and ACV.
Then catnip treatment for 1 hour.
Both with the egg and with the catnip, I added ACV to lower the pH to about 4.5-5.
I used the newly arrived catit garden catnip (lots more of buds than the Armitage I had before, smelt flower while Armitage smelt like hay).
Afterwards, my hair felt not enough conditioned, and I hade to use pretty much camellia oil. Hair was OK after that.
I wonder if I should not lower the pH, but instead let it be natural, wich means pH 7-7.5 for the egg and 6.5 for the catnip.
Or maybe just ACV to the egg.
I think that the low pH in my catnip, may have been to drying or to astringent.
My scalp just loved the egg, it has never felt or looked better.
Catnip is good for it too, my scalp likes a bit of oil.
I will keep testing, and updating.
I want to have correct pH for my scalp, but my hair doesn't seam to like low pH.
I would not worry too much about the pH with catnip alone. It is still acidic. When I added acv to it, my hair did not like it either.Quote:
Originally Posted by HotRag
No one has tried catnip with cassia that I am aware of.Quote:
Originally Posted by freecelt
Ok, thanks. I might have to try it when I get some :) .
I have also been continuing to squeeze out extra water from my hair prior to conditioning/colouring with catnip. It is continuing to work better for me, consistantly.
In bitter cold wild winds, no tangles or weather damage to deal with, when wearing my hair loose and free.
I have tried catnip and cassia together a few times now. It has been fine. I have to admit to not having experimented very thoroughly with catnip on its own though, so I cannot really compare the effects.
When using catnip alone, I didn't do very much for me, so for the time being I stopped faffing with it, planning to revisit it later. But since I have to mix the cassia with something I thought I might just as well use catnip. My current cassia routine is as follows:
1) Wash hair, normally with sulfate shampoo on these occasions (for other washes, I also often CO or use non sulfate shampoo alternatives).
2) Apply honey lightnening treatment, close to the instructions in the honey thread, ie I mix 1 part honey with 4 parts water and let sit for one hour before applying, but as I haven't got any distilled water at the moment I just use boiled and cooled tap water.
3) Bag and let sit for about one hour. In the meantime, mix cassia with catnip tea and a glug of olive oil.
4) Apply this mix to hair that still has honey mixture in it, rebag and let sit for another hour or so.
5) Rinse, condition, finished.
I get nice results from this, but as I said I haven't systematically investigated all components of this routine separately so couldn't say which ingredient or technique does more or less good. It was more of a case of combining the treatments that interest me in such a way that I can give them a shot with minimum time and effort involved, avoid any of the known clashes (like adding stuff to honey or applying conditioner before catnip) then cross my fingers and hope for the best!