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🪴requested loc regimen & product recommendations

I am just speaking from my experience & if you find anything that you want to tweak to fit your experience, feel free!

🪴Products🪴

1. Aloe Vera water - great for keeping dry, itchy scalp & dandruff at bay. You can buy a gallon of aloe Vera water from target & Walmart

2. Aloe Vera gel - a great gentle hold gel that doesn’t leave build up. Walmart sells large aloe Vera leafs in the produce section & you can make your own organic gel!

3. Flaxseed gel - another great gel that doesn’t leave build up. Miss Jessie’s flaxseed gel is great and so is making your own organic flaxseed gel with flaxseeds!

4. Rose water - great for moisturizing the scalp, skin & locs. Rose water seems to be a little tricky to find at local hair stores so if you can’t find it, I would recommend ordering it offline. You won’t regret it.

5. A continuous spray bottle - this is great for misting the locs in the morning instead of drenching them with a spray bottle. This is also what I use to make my own spritz concoctions.

6. Tea tree essential oil - I find that this helps with itchy scalp and keeps the scalp bacteria free. You can buy this at local beauty supply stores or the grocery store. It should come in a very small bottle and is very concentrated so PLEASE DILUTE!

7. Peppermint essential oil - helps with blood circulation which helps with hair growth, & it helps to reduce itchy scalp. This is the best oil for hair growth in my opinion. It helps to thicken my hair and in turn, made it longer in time. This also comes in a small bottle and needs to be diluted.

8. My spritz concoction - combining 1 part aloe Vera and 1 part rose water in a spritz bottle, I add a few drops of peppermint and tea tree essential oils.

9. Sweet almond oil - helps to reduce frizz & is a great emollient, which means it helps to retain moisture when applied correctly. Only buy 100% almond oil. Nothing diluted with other oils.

10. Coconut oil - helps to reduce frizz & is also a great emollient. You can buy organic coconut up from the grocery store or beauty supply store.

11. Grape seed oil - excellent light oil that can be applied to the hair without sealing the hair off to any other products. It is meant to penetrate the cuticles, not to seal in moisture. You can buy this at the grocery store or a beauty supply store. Again, you want 100% grape-seed oil.

12. Jojoba oil - the best but most expensive oil you can use on your hair. It is very light weight and will leave the hair supple, soft and glossy. It is the closest oil that mimics the natural sebum oil your scalp and skin secretes every day so it’s no wonder they call it liquid gold. A 12 oz bottle of this oil will cost you $27 but it’s worth every drop. I definitely don’t buy it all the time but I’ll buy it as a treat when I can.

13. My coconut oil blend - melting the coconut oil, I add drops of peppermint & tea tree essential oils to the oil. For every 4 oz, add one drop of the essential oils. Stir and let the coconut oil solidify.

14. My scalp oil blend - combine jojoba, sweet almond, and grape-seed, diluted peppermint and tea tree essential oils to a application bottle for easy application to the scalp.

15. Shea moisture Jamaican black castor oil cleansing shampoo - this is an awesome cleansing shampoo that doesn’t leave my hair stripped dry but you can feel the magic working. My locs are always lightweight after using this product. You can find this at target, Walmart or a beauty supply store.

16. Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint pure Castile soap - this also is a great cleansing shampoo. It’s not as great as the Shea moisture one but it does a good job for my locs too!

🪴Regimen🪴

1. I wash my hair once a week, every week like clockwork. I wash with a stocking cap over my scalp to ensure my baby locs aren’t unraveling. I wash with a cleansing shampoo every time because I don’t want to take any chances with product build up. It is also a great way of giving my hair a clean slate to absorb all the amazing products I put on it next.

2. After washing 3 times & making sure to rinse my locs until the water is clear, I wrap my hair in a cotton t-shirt for 30 to absorb as much water out of my locs as possible. A micro fiber towel would be better honestly.

3. After 30 minutes, I spray my locs and scalp with my spritz blend.

4. After, I apply my scalp oil blend to my scalp in four sections to make sure I don’t miss any sections.

5. After that’s done, I massage the oils in my scalp and rub any excess oil down the shaft of my locs. I also put this oil on my ends.

6. Lastly, I apply the coconut oil blend to my scalp, locs and ends to loc in all that great moisture

7. Bonus step! Cover hair with plastic cap for 30-60 minutes for a deep conditioning hot oil treatment

***Remember! Moisture comes from water! Oils seal in that moisture. Without some type of water, you are just sealing in dry hair***

7. When I retwist or style my locs, I use aloe Vera or flaxseed gel. I like Shea moistures curl soufflé but because of it’s weird texture, I don’t recommend it to everyone. I also like Taliah Waajid’s tight hold cream but I haven’t used it enough to recommend it either.

🪴And that’s it! This is what I’ve been tweaking for 7 months and I will continue to listen to my hair and what it needs as the months turn into years. 🪴

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