Mahalialee4
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Southern- W. Indian- Haitian Grandmother\'s Recipes
I was talking with a cousin (who has 4ab waistlength hair), very thick, (sigh!) and we were talking about the things our grannies used on the hair and scalp back in the day, like 1800's early 1900's that a few still use today out in the country. Three things came up. Sulphur, pine tar, lanolin (NOT the refined thick stuff that you could never hope to remove---but the soft, rendered fat consistency that spreads easily). Anyway, she talked about the pure vegetable pine tar that was used for scalp problems. I have started using a pine tar soap, (Grandpa's brand Pine Tar Soap made from a 100 year old recipe. It comes from the Ozarks in the US.)I came across this bar soap at an E. Indian store by the way and I loved what it did to my hair. It was so soft afterward and wasn't stripped even though I lathered up three times. It lathers well in hard or soft water and already has moisturizing oils in the soap. I give it a thumbs up so far. I will be using this soap as my clarifying soap as it removed all the buildup from the glycerine products, vaseline (that I use on the ends)etc., and my hair was so thick and fluffy after. I rinsed with AVC and water mixture. She also mentioned them using the yellow sulphur. She and I both were remarking on how thick our Aunties' and Grandmothers' hair was and strong!!! It was like fine wire. Do any of you have those conversations with older relatives and heard of any interesting recipes and things (POSITIVE) they did for their hair? If anyone has West Indian or Haitian Grandmothers etc. do you know how they made their BLACK castor oil that makes it so dark and strong smelling? I understand that they cooked up batches of the stuff and that it is potent. Does anyone know what the ingredients are? I was told that they make it in Dominique and in St. Lucia and that you can buy it there as well. Hope that I hear from a lot of you. This could prove to be both interesting and beneficial. I plan to check out some of the soap making guilds here about getting some specialty soaps made for me. Later.
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I was talking with a cousin (who has 4ab waistlength hair), very thick, (sigh!) and we were talking about the things our grannies used on the hair and scalp back in the day, like 1800's early 1900's that a few still use today out in the country. Three things came up. Sulphur, pine tar, lanolin (NOT the refined thick stuff that you could never hope to remove---but the soft, rendered fat consistency that spreads easily). Anyway, she talked about the pure vegetable pine tar that was used for scalp problems. I have started using a pine tar soap, (Grandpa's brand Pine Tar Soap made from a 100 year old recipe. It comes from the Ozarks in the US.)I came across this bar soap at an E. Indian store by the way and I loved what it did to my hair. It was so soft afterward and wasn't stripped even though I lathered up three times. It lathers well in hard or soft water and already has moisturizing oils in the soap. I give it a thumbs up so far. I will be using this soap as my clarifying soap as it removed all the buildup from the glycerine products, vaseline (that I use on the ends)etc., and my hair was so thick and fluffy after. I rinsed with AVC and water mixture. She also mentioned them using the yellow sulphur. She and I both were remarking on how thick our Aunties' and Grandmothers' hair was and strong!!! It was like fine wire. Do any of you have those conversations with older relatives and heard of any interesting recipes and things (POSITIVE) they did for their hair? If anyone has West Indian or Haitian Grandmothers etc. do you know how they made their BLACK castor oil that makes it so dark and strong smelling? I understand that they cooked up batches of the stuff and that it is potent. Does anyone know what the ingredients are? I was told that they make it in Dominique and in St. Lucia and that you can buy it there as well. Hope that I hear from a lot of you. This could prove to be both interesting and beneficial. I plan to check out some of the soap making guilds here about getting some specialty soaps made for me. Later.
