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1. As often as you like. I use it every time I wash my hair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sissy
2. Yes you can but hopefully you will need less. If you do, less conditioner should wash out easier, not leaving a residue, which can impede the catnip's effects.
3. Same as number 2.
4. I saw my last split end over 1.5 years ago. I lose track. My situation was different. I had buid-up when I started. In the last 2 years or so, since I increased timing, the condition of my hair has improved even more.
Ktani,Quote:
Originally Posted by ktani
It sounds like you've had incredible results with catnip rinses. Do you ever use conditioners or leave-ins now?
I would like to use both catnip rinses and my conditioners. I just purchased quite a few Aubrey Organics products to try and they haven't arrived yet so I have MORE than enough conditioner to work through :) Still, the more I look at it I am very pleased at the look of my hair with just a catnip rinse. It is shiny looking and it almost seems like I used conditioner :)
I'm going to try to do a catnip rinse every other day to start with because I feel my split ends just keep multiplying. How long before they should cease? I plan to use some conditioner or leave-in afterward for extra conditioning as my hair does tend to be dry. I hope this will not impede the catnip from preventing split ends too much?
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Originally Posted by ktani
I use absolutely nothing but shampoo and catnip. I tried experimenting with using conditoner and catnip almost 4 years ago but it did not work out. Catnip does not stain over conditioner. Instead, I concentrated on getting catnip to work better on its own and for me, it does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sissy
My hair is now in better condition than when I used conditioner, with no split ends, no breakage taper and less breakage than I ever had.
OK, I checked my catnip now and there are a few buds but not very many, nowhere near as many as in the first picture ktani linked. So I may look for another source with more buds at some time...
I was going to try catnip again yesterday but it got so late in the evening that I didn't rinse it out. My hair is ok today, so I may experiment a bit more with just leaving the catnip in. I know this didn't work so well for ktani, but does anyone else successfully and regularly leave the catnip on their hair?
Coming to think of it, running around with a dripping head for an hour or so is one thing that does put me off catnip. When you all say you bag it, what is your exact routine for this to prevent drips? I seem to only be able to control them when I wrap clingfilm around my head which is a bit of a pain and waste of plastic. Any better tips?
Thanks,
Kaz x
I bag my catnip in the bath/shower, so drips are not a problem for me. When I have done it out of the shower, I used to wear a towel around my neck and that worked fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kazazi
How have been currently washing my hair and applying my catnip treatment
I wash my hair all forward, or upsidedown.
Shampoo method
1. I gently separate my wet hair by pulling it apart sideways with my hands, rather than finger combing it but I do use 1 finger at one point to go through it, to make sure there are no tangles, before washing it. I use the force of the shower water to aid this. My hair no longer tangles, so this is very easy for me.
2. I apply shampoo that has been emulsified, by putting some on my arm (the rest has been poured out in my hand that I dip into), and appling small amount to various areas.
3. I add more water and lather my scalp, bringing the lather down through my length. I do not apply shampoo directly to my length. My hair is still all forward. I do not bring all of the hair up onto my head.
4. I rinse out the shampoo, my hair being all forward and repeat step 1.
I then squeeze out all excess water from my length.
Catnip method
5. I shake my catnip in the bottle (optional habit) and pour small amounts into my hand and apply it to the back of my head (nape), sides, back underneath top and length, holding the catnip on each place applied, for a few seconds and repeat this in those areas except for the length (I pour some catnip through that at the end and just pin it up and bag the whole thing for 1/2 hour.
6. I then take my hair down, flip my hair back, and apply more catnip with the same method, to the front sides, top, top back (top of the canopy) and rebag my hair, with the length down and outside the bag, for another 1/2 hour. This is to get the catnip colour evenly distributed.
7. I remove the bag and reapply more catnip to my greyest areas, let my hair cool down a bit, flip it all forward again and rinse it out with cool water, using step 1.
I do it all without thinking now and it does take time but I am colouring my hair each time, not just conditioning. I have no roots doing this. I do have grey/white coverage and great conditioning, with no split ends and minimal breakage.
What I am starting to do now is use catnip as a second "shampoo", using less of my conventional shampoo, before colour/conditioning as above. There are times when my hair is more oily and this has worked once very well. The catnip "shampoo" is just applied to scalp and length, and rinsed straight out, not timed or bagged.
Thanks, ktani. So do you use a showercap to bag or literally just a plastic bag, or something else entirely?
I like the just spending time in the bath whilst incubating time. Will try that next time!
You are most welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kazazi
I just use freezer bags or bag, (Glad freezer bags, 11 x 14 inches) because I wash and reuse one. My current bag is months old. They are the ones that come with with ties. I stretch out the opening. It looks very weird because I do not crush it around my hair, so the air just makes it sit 14 inches above my head but it is a nice tight fit and when I have done this outside of the shower, I can see the condensation from body heat.
The freezer bags are extra thick plastic and they do not tear. I let my fingernails grow, then cut them all off and these bags never rip or tear when my nails are long and I stretch a bag. To stretch one, I just grab the opening and use my palms to get the opening wide enough not to pull my pinned up hair down, while bagging my hair. I twist the extra width at my forehead and tuck it under there.
By having squeezed out the extra water post shampooing, my hair does not drip as much from the catnip. The catnip is absorbed better, by my hair.
I think mine looks like number 2. Is that what we are aiming for?:)Quote:
Originally Posted by ktani
Yes, with lots of little round bits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alley Cat