Hair Products Under My Sink

Confession of a former product junkie: I’ve tried a number of hair products over my 4 years natural hair journey. During this period, my hair has fallen in love with a number of different ones and my hair has also hated some as well. The reasons are varied, but from the love list I've narrowed my buying to the hair products listed below. However these days I'm no longer interested in trying new hair products. Instead I am focused on exploring oils and creating my own formulas. 

• Burt’s Bees Hair repair- deep conditioner
• Burt’s Bees avocado pre-shampoo
• ACV homemade formula w/o the apple
• Homemade leave-in conditioner
•  Herbal Essences Totally Twisted curls & conditioner
• GoingOhm sweet hair pudding 
• Cantu Shea Butter leave-in conditioner
• Shea Moisture shampoo
• Shea Moisture conditioner
• Shea Moisture Curl Smoothie
• 100% Shea Butter
• Sweet Almond Oil
• Peppermint Oil
• Jojoba Oil
• Coconut Oil

Personal Decision: Going Natural

I have heard many reasons from different people as to why they decided to go natural. Some did it because of self-actualization, bad perms that resulted in hair loss, and for others the decision was solely based upon it being a fashion statement or even trying something new. However no matter what the reasons were we've all decided to take this journey. 

As for me my number one reason was based upon the fact that I have inherited the genes for early graying form my father. So I started to color my hair when I had a perm, needless to say that was not a winning combination for me. As a result my hair started to thin out and also break off. I knew I had to choose, so I decided I was going to go natural. 

Of course as any Naturalists can tell you it's not an easy journey, because many of us have not seen our hair in its natural state since we were in Elementary school. Going on this journey is a chance to find out what products best work for our hair and what hair styles best suit our lifestyles.

Even beyond figuring out what and how to care for our hair in its natural state, some of us have to be concerned with how the people in our lives will accept our decision to go on this journey. For example women who are married are often time concerned with their spouses acceptance (this is not always the case, because many spouses/significant others are supportive). The need for acceptance doesn’t stop there, because sometimes we are even concerned about our friends and other family members reactions on our choice to take this personal journey.

Thankfully, for me I had no such worries as my friends and family are supportive of my choice to wear my hair in its natural state.