Well as promised I am showing you my mixture of one of the most popular recipe's in the natural hair community, which would be KimmayTube's leave-in conditioner recipe. This was actually my first time making the leave-in conditioner and while I did not use the exact products that she used in her You Tube video (such as the Kinky Curly Knot Today Leave-In Conditioner
), they were close enough, plus I added my own twist to it.I used 2 tablespoons (1 oz.) of Beyond the Zone Split Mender
Leave-in conditioner, 2 tablespoons (1 oz.) of Whole Leaf Aloe Vera Juice
, 2 teaspoons each of Lavender Jamaican Black Castor Oil
and Jojoba Oil
with 1/2 teaspoon of Vitamin e oil
for preservation. You will see me mixing up these items together in the video below and you will see how I accidentally spilled some extra Aloe Vera juice in which may account for why my mixture came out so watery.The purpose of this leave-in conditioner is to give hair a proper pH balance so that your hair can also be moisturized at the same time. A proper pH balanced product can instantly seal the cuticle of the hair shaft and should leave the hair feeling soft. I put the mix into the refrigerator and the leave-in conditioner did thicken up a bit and had a better consistency after about 4 days. I did end up trying my leave-in conditioner on a section of my hair and I immediately felt the difference in the way it felt and this mixture gave my hair a lot of slip. I would definitely recommend trying Kimmaytube's leave-in conditioner recipe because it can be cheaper than purchasing a commercial leave-in conditioner, and I will alternate between this and Beauty Without Cruelty Leave-in Conditioner
which is organic and really good in my opinion.Let me know if you decided to try this recipe and how it worked for you. I am seriously considering purchasing the new One n Only Flat Iron that has Argan Oil
infused into the ceramic plates and if I do I will definitely be doing a review on it. Update: I purchased a Helen of Troy Ceramic+Titanium
Professional Flat Iron on 11/22/10 and I will be testing it out very soon.Be sure to check out some of my other blog posts regarding protecting your natural hair and growing it long.
Have you ever tried the leave in with the KcKT?
ReplyDeleteHi Valarie,
ReplyDeleteNo I have not tried the KCKT, but I would like to try that in the near future. I will be sure to include an update on this post when I do.
Thanks.