So I ened up letting my rice “ferment” for 4 days. I had it in a kitchen cabinet, and each day I would check on it and close the cabinet door looking like this:
All of the activity happening in my mason jar was making me nervous.
On the fourth and final day, I took the jar out the cabinet and removed the lid. It fizzed as I removed it. I then took a whiff. No—actually, a whiff took
me... I immediately walked over to the kitchen sink and poured alladat ish right down the drain. What was in that jar was foul, rotten, putrid. I would be physically incapable of pouring it over my head. How are y’all doing this?? I thought folks were exaggerating about the smell. I’m not bothered by a lot of the smells people don’t like in hair care (neem, wheat germ, wild growth oil, etc). But that was actual ass. It was ass in that jar. No shade to anyone, but putting dookie water on my scalp is not how I live. Lol.
I still want to try the rice water though.
I think I’m going to do the boil-24 hour ferment-boil method.