Now that we're facing a dry, cold winter with tons of snow coming our way, it's time for you to get cozy with these 3 essential hair care products for extra slip and moisture.
Our Cleansing Conditioning CoWash is a restorative conditioner infused with shikakai powder that provides slip for even very dry, type 4 hair. It restores and rejuvenates hair strands with so much slip and moisture, making hair easy to detangle and style. We recommend you use this as needed to cleanse your hair (and you can even skip shampooing if not needed every second wash). every 5-7 days, depending on your hair needs.
After cleansing you can do one of the following hair recipes below.
Using our Cocoa Butter and Shea Butter you can create skin balms and butters infusing them with other oils such as our Golden Jojoba Oil, or Organic Camellia oil.
You can even whip them together with about 1 part of each shea and cocoa butter with 2 parts (or so) of one of the hair oils we recommended and use in any of the methods below, optionally. You may need to slightly warm or melt some butters on low heat or in a crock pot on low, to get them to whip easier.
As a Deep Conditioning Treatment
Gently, and slowly melt your organic shea and cocoa butter in a pot on your stovetop, or use a crock pot. Use the melted shea and cocoa butter in your henna and Ayurvedic hair recipes. Mix well until it blends and add warm water if needed. You can then apply this hair mask to your freshly washed hair and leave it in your hair for 1-2 hours. Wash out throughly with warm water and/or with one of our Cleansing CoWashes. It is a heavy moisturizing treatment so extra shampooing may be needed. Ideally deep conditioning with cocoa and shea butter is for dry to very dry hair when moisture and conditioning is needed.
Hair Butter & Body Treatments
You can use cocoa and shea butter in your hair and body butter recipes through whipping and mixing it with other oils and shea butter. We have a lot of easy DIY recipes you can follow on our YouTube channel (click the Videos option in the footer of our website).
Foot Treatment
Use your organic cocoa and shea butters, and rub a thick layer all over your feet, including soles. Cover with a sock, and sleep with a this treatment on overnight. In the morning, remove your socks, and shower as usual to remove excess butter. Heals cracked feet, and leaves feet feeling refreshed, nourished, and silky soft.
Dry Skin Spots
Use raw to apply a thick layer on dry, and raw skin areas. Allow to deeply penetrate, and leave on either all day, if comfortable for you, or as a deep overnight treatment.
Hair Sealant
Using melted liquid organic shea and cocoa butter, apply onto your hair as a leave in moisturizer. If this is too heavy for your hair, you can also just treat the dry, damaged areas, and ends of your hair. Use to seal, and hold your protective hair styles. Ideally mixing with other oils makes it easier to apply and use.
Soothing Scalp Treatment
Organic cocoa and shea butter will soothe, and heal irritated and inflamed scalp conditions. Place cocoa butter on the scalp and leave it on overnight. Wash it out the next day and continue with your regular hair regimen and routine.
For general use on skin, take one piece or 1 tbsp of each cocoa butter wafer and shea butter and place it your palm and rub it on your skin. The warmth from your hands will spread the butter all over, and deeply moisturize.