I am a curly girl. I am on a quest to find the perfect routine for my curls. Lately, I've been researching a lot of products, styling techniques and do it yourself potions on www.naturallycurly.com . I decided to try to create my own homemade flax seed hair gel and this photo shows my beautiful results. I feel better about putting all natural products in my hair and being nice to my curls. I am very pleased with how my hair reacted and how soft my curls are from using this hair gel.
Homemade flax seed hair gel (FSG):
1 cup distilled water
1 tbsp sea salt
2 tbsp flax seed
3 tbsp aloe vera gel
1 tbsp glycerin
1 tbsp grape seed oil
4 drops lavender essential oil
In a small pot mix sea salt in distilled water, add flax seeds and bring to a boil. Stir seeds and boil for 2 min, remove from heat and let sit for 20 min. Use old pantyhose over a small jar as filter for seeds (I am going to try placing the seeds in a tea mesh strainer ball next time) and squeeze the seeds with tongs to remove more gel. It will be the consistency of egg white or snot. Beat the FSG and then add the all the other ingredients ( aloe vera, glycerin, grape seed oil and lavender essential oil).
Apply to wet (not yet towel dried) hair as follows: use 2 fingers to scoop FSG, rub in hand and scrunch into one side of hair, repeat on other side, flip hair and repeat on front section of hair. Use t shirt or microfiber hair to scrunch hair dry. Plop hair with long sleeve t shirt for 15 min (flip hair onto long sleeve t shirt, use arms to tie turban over head). Use pixie curl defuser method to further dry hair (use low heat, low speed setting and turn off hairdryer in between drying sections of hair, this reduces frizzies).
