It has almost been 3 weeks since a last washed Z's hair, and it was definitely quite a detangling session! The details:
- Deep Conditioned: Applied Shea Moisture Organic Black Soap Purification Masque (used the last ounce today) and Coconut Oil to dry hair before lightly misting with homemade moisturizing spray
- Did not remove style yet
- Focused on the ends and scalp
- Covered her hair with the "conditioning" cap (pictured above) I impulsively grabbed at Dollar Tree
- Such a flop!!! After 30 minutes, there was no heat generated from the cap so I grabbed my trusted grocery bag and placed it over her hair before covering it with the "conditioning" cap for another 15 minutes.
- Worked much better. Think the cap had too much open space underneath to accumulate any heat. Will not purchase another one.
- Removed hair style
- Cleansed: Did a baking soda rinse (1 tablespoon per 8 ounce of warm water)
- Used a nozzle bottle for application to scalp only
- Focused on massaging her scalp to remove dead skin, dirt, and debris
- Her hair did not lather like mine did after the baking soda rinse (still have to look into this)
- Rinsed hair
- Conditioned: Applied a generous amount of Giovanni Smooth as Silk Conditioner to her hair
- Detangled hair in sections
- Added Extra Virgin Olive Oil to her ends for extra slippage
- 3 weeks of not detangling hair in twists made it a little more challenging to finger detangle her hair in 4 sections. I ended up with 9 smaller sections to ensure I removed all tangles and loose hairs
- Finger detangled before using wide tooth comb through hair (going from tip to root)
- Ran through each section with modified denman brush to remove loose hairs
- Twisted each section to prevent retangling of hair
- Rinsed hair
- Did a final rinse with Apple Cider Vinergar (1 tablespoon per 8 ounce of warm water)
- Did not rinse out the ACV (smell disappears as hair dries)
- Applied Coconut Oil and Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie (LOC Method) to hair it had air dried for an hour (aka while eating dinner)
- Stretched: Threaded hair in 8 sections to air dry overnight in prep for styling tomorrow.
Note: The amount of shedding was not overly drastic. It was as expected after almost 3 weeks of no comb in hair. Z's had a pretty good amount of hair growth over the past 3 weeks. It seems that her hair hits around the 0.5 inches/month growth rate.
