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HoneyDew said:I'm confused about Shea Butter.
I don’t see how it can be moisturizing for hair since everyone swears that moisturizers are water based. Isn’t Shea butter just a solid oil?
Is there anyone that only uses shea butter on their hair or are you applying other things first?
toosexy1 said:its a sealant not a moisturiser. no oil can moisturise on its own
Sassygoddess said:are you all saying that in order for my hair to be moist i have to use a water base moisturizer and then some type of seal oil?
please let me know because i didn't know this.
ayoung1981 said:OT:
HD, what are you doing w/ your IC Olive Hair Polisher? (heat protect, shine...)
rosie said:In the summer when I wear my puff (or used to), I would wash my hair, let it air dry over night and in the morning, rub Shea butter in it. It would soften (hard for most products to do) my hair and keep it buttery soft and moist for a few days. I would reapply the butter about 3 days later and wash my hair on the weekend.
For me it worked as a moisturizer. No misting of water, no applying of a water based moisturizer before hand. Pure shea butter that I used to get from Crabapple Soap Factory (yeah, I know, I know, but they had the best Shea butter for the price until the company went down hill).
Before I used shea butter, my hair was hard and never really got soft no matter what I used. Even curl activator gel (which softened my hair) wore off by the end of the day, so I used SHea butter and only shea butter.
C/O wash
Condition
Rinse
Air Dry (hair is rock hard, always until the next step)
Shea Butter
Gave me really soft and MOISTURIZED hair.
Maybe in the case of only water mosturizing hair, I am the exception.
I don't follow that routine anymore, 'cause I am a PJ an CSF went crazy, so I'm still looking for a replacement butter.
I now use cocoshea from Health2go.com (they have a new name, but I can't think of it). To which I mix my curl activator gel. I use it on damp hair now. It mosturizes my hair just as well as the shea butter from CSF did.
FOR ME (YMMV), shea butter (PURE, no other ingredients added) was a moisturizer when I used it that way.
jasmine26 said:I recently used just shea butter to twist my hair and my hair wasn't as moisturized or soft as it normally is. It actually made my hair feel very dry. So, i'm assuming it must be an oil.
camellia said:I use all butters after I have applied leave conditoner or just misted with water.