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BENEFITS OF RICE WATER... Do you ever know that the rice water you usually throw away has a lot of vitamins and minerals?  Well, it’s true! ....It also comes with many benefits as well. The best part about rice water is that you can make it at home in a very simple way! Would you like to know more? Keep reading! How To Make Rice Water... Rice water is super easy to prepare. Here is a step by step guideline that can help you with the process: 1. Scoop out a bowl of uncooked rice and wash it with cold water. 2. Make sure the final water is free of dirt. 3. Keep boiling the rice until it has been cooked. 4. Once the water has been drained in a pot, pour it in another vessel. 5. Let the water cool down so that you can store it in a glass jar. 6. The rice water is now ready for regular usage. Another way to prepare rice water is by fermenting the rice in water for 3 days in a glass jar.... 1. Get a good amount of uncooked rice. 2. Rinse it thoroughly. 3. Get a glass jar and pour the ric...

Protective hairstyles are styles that protect your hair, keeps your hair in place with your ends tucked in and do not cause any pain to your scalp.  They allow for easy moisturizing with care, and low manipulation, which in turn helps your hair growth! Protective hairstyles preserves your hair health and protects it from damage that can result from harsh wind, cold, fingers, and more. The goal is to keep your ends tucked away to prevent frequent manipulation of the hair. The importance of wearing protective hairstyles is clear, they help keep your hair healthy. Many women who do not use protective styling in their regular hair routine can experience a lot more breakage than those who do use these styles. This is why many people don’t get the hair growth and length retention they want. The ends of your hair are the oldest and most fragile parts of your hair. You want to treat your ends with a lot more tenderness than other parts of the hair.  Wearing protective styles can: Enco...

KNOWING YOUR HAIR TYPE As a Naturalist, you need to know your hair type.  Your hair type is primarily based on your hair’s curl pattern... the amount of curl in your hair is determined by your hair follicle. The shape of your follicle determines whether your hair is: Type 1  STRAIGHT Type 2  WAVY Type 3  CURLY Type 4  COILY or KINKY These types are further divided into sub-categories based on the tightness or looseness of the curls and coils.   We will look at the different hair types. Try identifying which of these define you. Type 1: Straight Hair This hair type stays straight irrespective of any amount of curling. It typically lies flat from the roots to the tips.  Its texture is soft and silky, and it is extremely shiny. It does not possess any curls. Often, women with straight hair have fine hair.  Besides being soft, you can also see a high amount of oil secretion in this naturally straight hair type. Type 2: Wavy Hair Wavy hair type is...

  What is a Prepoo? A Prepoo treatment is usually an oil treatment applied to your hair prior to shampooing or conditioning. Pre-poo is a fusion of two “words”. Pre and poo. Pre is a prefix meaning before and Poo is a short form for shampoo.  It is simply what one does to prepare the hair before shampooing. Yes, it's true that everything that you put on your hair before a shampoo will be washed away.  It may be hard to see the point of doing this step in the first place. But let's remember that the process of washing the hair can be very stressful on your hair strands, especially if you are still using a sulfate shampoo. In fact, there tends to be a lot of manipulation during the washing, deep conditioning and styling routine. Doing a  pre-poo conditions the cuticle and gets it prepared for the manipulation. HOW TO PREPOO To pre poo your natural hair, you'll need to gather your products which includes the oil you'll be using to Prepoo and a spray bot...

PROTEIN TREATMENT FOR NATURAL HAIR A protein treatment is a conditioner that binds proteins to the cuticle layer of your hair strands, making them stronger, and less likely to be damaged in the future. When your hair lacks protein it feels dry and rough. Protein Treatment helps to strengthen hair, prevent breakage, repair damage, and restore elasticity. Protein treatment for natural hair are very worthwhile. Your hair has to have the right balance of proteins, oils and nutrients to support healthy root and grow healthy hair. Protein treatment conditioners offers lot of benefits, they can add moisture to damaged hair, prevent further damage and can restore life to dull and lifeless hair. Protein treatments are all very effective and you can also make a simple protein treatment at home. How often to do protein treatment depends on the condition of your hair. For slightly damaged hair, once a month is fine. Severely damaged hair will benefit from a protein treatment once a wee...

Finger detangling is basically combing your hair with your fingers alone. This is the detangling method I like the most because your fingers doesn't have any cracks or broken part that can snag at your hair or catch in it and cause it to break. Also your fingers can be really gentle and gentler than most combs if you're patient with it. You need utmost patience in order to properly finger detangle your hair so if you're in a hurry, it's probably a wrong time to try to detangle your hair with your fingers. It's very important you know that IT'S YOUR FINGERS YOU NEED NOT YOUR FINGERNAILS!!! Keep your nails away please. If you use them, then you're better off using a comb in the first place. THE FIRST STEP in finger detangling is to never detangle dry. It's not worth it. Dry hair is brittle, even though you're using fingers, it could break so MAKE SURE you spray your hair lightly first. Use your spritz, plain water or leave in conditio...