Wash Day Dairy : August 19th 2014 : Clarify with Bentonite Clay

Love how Bentonite clay makes my curls and coils POP!

This week, I went longer on my wash days. I have been doing 5-7 days intervals, but this time, I went nearly 2 weeks. Whew!! At the end of that, my hair looked like this:


Results of banding my hair

My hair actually did not feel too bad, but since I have been putting products on top of products, it did not have its normal shine and bounce.

The night before my wash, I detangled my hair with just Extra Virgin Coconut Oil and covered it with a plastic cap and my bonnet as a pre-poo treatment. The next morning, my hair was SUPER SOFT and shiny. I was almost tempted not to wash it. LOL!

Using my Bentonite Clay Mask, I applied the clay to my hair, covered my hair with a plastic cap for 1 hour. It should have been for 45 mins, but I forgot to make my Tea Rinse.

For 2 months now, I have been doing Black Tea Rinses every wash day, I have noticed differences in my shedding. However, I found this picture on Pinterest, and decided to try Green Tea Rinses.

The ingredient in teas that helps with shedding is caffeine. I am thinking Black Tea will win over Green Tea because it has more caffeine per 8 oz cup than its counterpart.

Beverage	Caffeine Per 8 oz Cup
White Tea	30-55 mg
Green Tea	35-70 mg
Oolong Tea	50-75 mg
Black Tea	60-90 mg
Coffee	150-200 mg

The other thing is that you do not want to have too much caffeine because you could get the reverse situation and even experience more shedding. I have tested this fact and found it to be true when I did the tea rinses twice a week, my shedding seem to increase, then I reduced it to once a week and that seemed better.

Therefore, today, I brewed 2 bags of green tea (equivalent to 70-140mg of caffeine) in a 8oz cup. I will be testing this for the next month to see if it does better than the black tea. The Black Tea worked ok, but when I did not use it (while testing SheaMoisture products), my shedding seem to increase even much more.

After rinsing off the clay, I spritz my hair with the Green Tea rinse, applied SheaMoisture Super Complex Hair Masque on top of it, covered with a plastic cap and my bonnet and went for an hour bike ride. When done, rinsed the deep conditioner off.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO NOT SECTION OFF YOUR HAIR TO PROPERLY CLEANSE IT.

I had some residue on my scalp left over. #VeryAnnoying . I decided to section my hair, and wash my scalp with Eden Bodyworks Cleansing Cowash.

Here is proof that cleansing Cowashes truly cleanses your hair.

Here is my hair afterwards, full of shine, elasticity, and sheen!

Post Wash:

• Applied Oil Mix
• Moisturize with SheaMoisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil Leave In
• Twist hair.

**Testing taking Pictures in "Tv 1/125" mode on Canon T3i EOS