Co Washing

I co washed for the first time last week. I have read about it a lot on numerous blogs and decided to try it, not giving it much hope, and I have to say, I don't think that I will be using shampoo for a while. I instantly fell in love with co washing. It was so easy to do! Washing my hair with shampoo and conditioner took me around 3-4 hours to do. yep that long! Now, when I co wash, it took me about 1 hour 50 mins. to do. I co washed with White Rain Freesia Spirit Conditioner, but before I did that, I moisturized my scalp with some warm olive oil and a few drops of lavender oil because my scalp was a little dry. I part my hair in four, and I Bantu Knotted the ends.

My scalp with the olive oil and lavender oil

I left it on there for about 30 mins, then I washed all I could with water (cold) first (I don't use hot water to wash my hair) I added the conditioner and washed gently.

My hair with the conditioner, can you see how much natural hair I have? Me neither...

I gently massaged my scalp, and let the conditioner run down my hair to clean it. I used to was my entire hair by bundling it on top of itself, but that just caused sooooo many knots and tangles.....

dark times....... dark times...... I rinsed that out and reapplied some more conditioner and I repeated the washing, but this time I lightly "crunched" the ends to help get the rest of the oil out. I left the conditioner in for about 40 mins and I rinsed it out.

My hair in sections, with the conditioner, see my natural hair now??

After I blow dried my hair, BIG mistake! It came out all puffy and trashy at the ends, a sign that I really need a trim! I tamed my hair with some carrot oil, coconut oil and my Bergamot oil mixed together.

I was NOT happy! see one side of my hair is longer than the other side?

It looks a bit nasty I know.

My now tamed hair

My hair looked and smelled great! and that mixture kept my hair moisturized! I think from now on I will be co washing very often!