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Originally Posted by Roseate
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It is about what works for you. I'm glad that this does for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roseate
My lazy catnip experiment today (more like running late and pressed for time): I made the tea and divided it into 2 cups. In one cup, I put a squirt of my Aubrey Organics JAY Desert Herb shampoo and mixed it all up, applied to scalp and massaged and rinsed. In the other cup I added a squirt of Aubrey Organics conditioner, mixed it up, poured it over all my hair, worked it through, waited 3 minutes and rinsed. The shampoo worked much better for me diluted in the catnip tea, and it dried very nicely afterwards, so this will be my conditioning method when I don't have 30-60 minutes to let the catnip sit on my hair. I feel like I still get the conditioning effects that I love from the catnip on those days when I am on the run and need to shampoo my hair and only have 5 minutes.
ok, I just this afternoon, while bored at the office, was inspecting the ends of my hair. Out of all of it, all I could find was 3 split ends. However, Im sure that where there are three, there are three more, and three more, etc.
so Im on board. I bought some fresh catnip from my herb lady when I was in salem a couple weeks ago. I plan to spend some time steeping it tonight and then pouring it on and over.
*grumbles* stupid split ends.......:patrol:
Just FYI everyone, I found organic pure catnip at my dollar tree last night!
Update
Where I am living, we are in the middle of a huge snow storm. I have been exclusively washing my face with catnip as an experiment. It does remove my oil based sunblock and even with fierce winter winds and indoor heating, my face is not dry, chapped or requiring anything more than sunblock, to keep my skin moist.
Fantastic!Quote:
Originally Posted by mooglewoo
Please update how it goes with it.
It may be helpful if there can be a list of brands of organic leaves and flowers that are reported to work well.
Hagen Catit Garden is one.
I have been experimenting with catnip stain or dye. If I leave the tea to steep longer than just cooled, 2 - 4 hours as opposed to 1.5, the tea stain does deepen in colour and cover my grey/white hair better, I think. It is still light blonde, just a bit darker. The conditioning is the same.
I missed this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fencai
I apply it a little at a time in my hand and hold it on the hair for a few seconds, in different areas, multiple times.
It really helps if you squeeze the excess water out of your hair first, gently.
I have never use the multiple pouring method. I save some catnip for my skin out of what I brew to use on my hair and I want to concentrate on specific grey/white areas.
I hope that all went well for you.
It helps as well if there is no conditioner residue on the hair or another barrier to water, like oil, so the catnip tea has direct access to the hair. You can oil a bit afterward if you need to. I do not need to.
cool thanks! I plan to use for the first time tonight after I wash my hair.
Do you rinse it out? or leave it in?
I'll do like you said and hold some over the ends in different spots.
I'll report back later tonight on how it all went!
I always rinse it out. And not to mislead you, I hold the catnip over places against my head, and pour some through the ends after, scrunch them and pin up the ends and then bag my hair. This is done with my hair all forward.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fencai
Then after about 1/2 hour, I remove the bag, apply catnip to the top, front sides and top back and rebag it with the ends down. They get dripped on a bit.
Then I remove the bag, add more catnip to my greyest areas for a few minutes of cool down, then rinse it all out, all forward again. It sounds more complicated than it is. I get 0 tangles, BTW, doing all of that.