| All natural treatments for the hair can turn out to be real messy.
I PASSED the halfway point of the monthly challenge with my head help up high. That is, until I went for a haircut recently, and my stylist commented: “Why is your hair so oily?”
That was a bit of a downer. I feel my hair looks and feels fine, but it just goes to show that sometimes one can be falsely optimistic about something so personal. Maybe all the unusual (not to mention, icky) shampoo substitutes are taking a toll on my scalp after all.
Anyway, I am persevering and going to test out more wacky ideas for Week Three. If raw eggs and honey didn’t do my hair in, then surely it’ll be able to withstand a treatment of yoghurt and bananas?
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Slopping yoghurt on my head didn’t seem like much of a problem at first. After all, I enjoy eating yoghurt and its nutritional values (protein, calcium and vitamins D, B2, B1, B6) are widely accepted.
What I didn’t expect was the stink. While apple cider vinegar made my head smell sharply acidic, yoghurt gave my hair a pungent, sour stench akin to vomit! I kid you not, and in comparison, the vinegar now seems like child’s play.
Then came the bananas, also rich in nutrients (potassium and vitamin B). They were odourless, but incredibly difficult to wash off. Even after vigorous rinsing and washing, I was still picking banana bits off my hair throughout the day. Gross!
I tried two different methods – mashing and blending the banana before adding in the honey, but the problem persisted. No matter how fine the mixture, there was still residue.
It should be noted that using yoghurt and bananas in my hair is not advocated as a shampoo, but more as a conditioner. (I’m back to using baking soda to clean my hair, by the way). The two are touted to be hair-strengthening treatments – seen as a replacement to commercial conditioners.
Note to self: I’m staying off yoghurt for a while. Can’t get the memory of the stench out of my mind.
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