Hey, can you please show us how you use hair oil on your scalp and how you wash it off with rhassoul clay? Because I tried to use kaolin and it just made my hair sticky, I also am not able to wash off oil (one teaspoon) with only one wash with my soap 😢
So appreciate the research and common sense here. I have baby fine and thin hair. I’m now in my 50’s. I started in January to implement your advise. I got results, not just noticed by myself but I’m now getting comments like, “your hair looks thicker”. That is amazing! I never knew how fragile my hair was. I am now gentle with it, way less heat, protective styles, shower filter, oils, healthy eating, and msm. Making friends with the way your hair is naturally…is important. Be content, worry less about what others think. Enjoy what the Lord made.🙂
I colored periodically over the past 10 years. I did start going gray 5 years ago and decided to embrace my gray in 2020, my hair is now my new obsession. I have enjoyed these videos.
Gray and silver are my favorite, along with copper reds. If I grow silver hair like my tia on my moms' side I will just not need to color it. I will do gloss treatments to cut out the yellows caused by hard water. No amount of filtering cuts the hard water that is Hialeah Caca Water system.
Wash my hair once a week. Keep it up most the time. Don’t ever use heats or products in it. Oil with avocado oil. Don’t dye it. My hair is almost waist length now. Love your content
In the old days people ate a lot of animal proteins and fats which are rich in necessary minerals and vitamins that our bodies need to grow healthy hair and nails as well as maintain bone health and prevent cavities/maintain teeth and gum health.
Hey girl! Are you able to address the topic of haircare after a workout, especially for us curlies? Would love to hear any natural tips for this. Your content is such a joy to discover and learn from ♥
One thing I'm noticing nowadays after 4 months of using Katherine's advice, is how shiny my hair is getting. It looks like the most expensive glittery gray metallic surface! I'll remember the cold hair rinse, i remember my mum mentioned that back in the day - and complaining her hair got oilier more quickly... But she never had a BBB! THanks Kat you're making such a difference❤
proud owner of thigh-length hair ❤ rosemary water also prevents graying! my husband uses it :) my house has well water, and it can be very hard water at times, it can even give my strands a whitish tint :/ ill try out the apple cider vinegar rinse, i barely do anything to my hair besides oiling the mid length to the ends, maybe the rinse will help with some of the hard water leftovers on my hair, definitely will be looking into a filter attachment! your hair is gorgeous 🧡✨️
Does ACV dry hair? Mines soooo dry and brittle, frizzy. Been trying to grow ig for 20yrs it's finally got to my tail bone but had to cut 3inch off cause the bobbles I wear break the ends. Xxx
@@traceyannsummers9819 do an egg mask! And then go easy on the ACV. The egg wash will reset your hair texture and make it beautifully soft. The ACV has to be diluted! I got that wrong in the beginning as well and had to learn the hard way 😅
I love your take on grey hair. I heard back in the day that shepards would move their flocks from pasture to pasture when their darker sheep would start to turn lighter in color. This was due to not enough minerals in their diet. Greys show up more quickly on those of us with darker hair, like those sheep. I thought this was interesting because my hair stopped getting grey when I started to destress and eat more proteins ect, foods in higher minerals.
How interesting about the sheep! I'd never heard about that before. I am now naturally grey and really enjoying it, especially thanks to Katherine's hair care tips. It is also a whole lot less work since I stopped dyeing it!!
As someone who has had long hair for decades, I mostly agree with everything said here and in her related hair care videos. But I have very different hair than Katherine (who has gorgeous, curly, DRY hair.). Maybe my routine below will help people adapt the important principles Katherine teaches to their own hair. My hair is medium fine and mostly straight. It is oily with a tendency toward itchy, yeast-caused dandruff. My ends would be happy never being washed. My scalp wants a daily bath. So it's a balance. I have learned that to extend the time between washes, I MUST USE HEAT on my scalp. Otherwise, the yeast sets in and starts causing itchiness and dandruff by day 2. Also, no-poo options always leave my hair with way too much oil and itchiness. So I combine "new" hair care with "historic" hair care with great success. (Basically, combine the Blowout professor with Katherine and a touch of Abby Yung and you have it.) Wash day One Day a Week only using professional, modern methods. This is scalp care that protects ends. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prewash: oil ends only to protect against the coming heat and moisture. Shower: HOT water to shampoo. Tepid water to rinse out conditioner. Shower Products: professional shampoo (wash scalp only, not hair... then rinse and repeat). professional conditioner on mids/ends only. Post-Shower: Microfiber wrap for 15 minutes, then Professional leave-in conditioner and detangle with Wet brush. Then professional heat protectant. Dry: Blow dryer on hot with ceramic boar bristle brush to shape. Make sure the scalp takes most of the heat focus, to kill yeast. Between washes. Historic methods that protect ends and dry clean hair. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Limit handling hair to a detangle/style both AM and PM. Midday handling increases scalp oils. Nightly, use homemade dry shampoo and a boar bristle brush to "dry wash". Nightly, if root hair feels dry, lightly oil ends of hair. If root hair feels a bit iffy, do NOT oil ends of hair. Nightly, style hair "up" (loose milk maids/loose bun on top of hair). If root hair feels iffy, the style should stuff the ends of the hair up at the crown (ends will soak up the oil and give my scalp an extra day.) Wrap head in a silk scarf to significantly reduce braid shed and breakage. Morning, detangle with Wet Brush. only oil ends with a few drops of lightweight hair oil if they seem dry and dull. wear hair loose day one or two - otherwise use protective hair styles (Katherine has awesome videos on this.) By combining methods this way I have had great success in extending time between washes and avoiding build up of sebum on the scalp or excessive dryness at the ends. I haven't had a trim in over a year and do not think I need one at all. My hair is healthy and has no split ends and usually makes it a week between washes this way. I hope that helps someone with hair more like mine than Katherine's. I'm very jealous of the no-poo people, but that's for my dry-scalp friends.
Thank you for putting your knowledge out there. My hair has never looked or felt better sense using your techniques. I have always dreamed of what I call princess hair. Which is to your hip hair just like yours. I've always tired to take care of my hair but in a modern world your only taught modern techniques. I am so happy I have found you my hair feels so much healthier then it ever has. My face doesn't break out like it use to. Thank you so much for making a difference in my life.
If I didn't color my hair it would be white. I can go without the heat but the white just depresses me. I tried to grow it out, made it to my ears and just couldn't do it. My hair is almost to my rear, I am just gentle with it and although I color it every 4 weeks I try not to use heat and let it dry naturally.
I just turned 49 a few days ago and I decided a couple of years ago that I'm not dying my hair anymore. I don't have too many greys yet but they're there. I don't use heat on my hair either and I'm always telling my 19 year old daughter to do the same because I've noticed the difference in my own hair and she has beautiful brown thick ringlets.
I haven't used heat on my hair for about 25 years. It was past my waist until I got vivid a year and a half ago. I lost about 50% of my hair to vivid and ended up cutting to just below my shoulders. It's starting to grow back out, but it has a ways to go to get back where it was. Oh, and it's coming back curly.
Great vid! In February of 2022 I started picking out the dreads that had developed on my head over the really drippy cold winter and my once magnificent mane had been reduced to a very uneven bob. I'm just wanting to get my hair back to wild man length of just below my shoulders, and just about a month ago started researching. You were one of the first ones, thankfully, and then there's this guy called Blowout Professor. He had great info on the basic structure of hair, but since I had the good fortune of finding your hair oil recipe first I took in his advice on bottles of carcinogenic, endocrine disrupting sludge with a high dose of critique. He goes so far as to recommend heat on a regular basis, and then we can sell you bottles of sludge to compensate for the damage. He merely mentioned in passing that some people like boar bristle brushes, then took the rest of the time of the brush chapter of his video talking about plastic. Since I took on periodic oiling with castor oil, ditched my plastic wide tooth comb for dry finger only, and the boar bristle brush and my returning mane is coming out more shiny and not greasy, less frizzy than it was when I was 20, 10, 5 years younger. Also the growth is seeming faster what with the ends getting much better treatment than they could ever get with a plastic comb. I have yet to mix up a batch of your oil recipe and want to do that soon. Easier to afford in the near future is some clay and vinegar to finish off my chucking out of all the modern hair 'care' methods. Thanks so much for sharing these things! My beard is doing so much better also, soft, shiny and not at all frizzy.
Over the past 3 months I have noticed something amazing which is that I dont need commercial shampoo on my scalp. I rarely need to scrub my scalp anymore- a dip/rinse in the tub and a quick wash/condition on my hair, 3x a week is great. I think I was mistaken about the need to use all that soap on my head. I do have clay and vinegar whenever I will scrub my scalp. It might be my age - 63 but whatever it is, life is so much easier.
I have extremely dry skin and hair. My doctor told me to take a bath, not a shower, once or twice a week at most. Since I'm sensitive to waaay too many chemicals, i switched to natural castile shampoo with an apple cider vinegar rinse some years ago and my hair and scalp are so much more comfortable now. I occasionally put 1/2 cup of crushed sage leaves in an old knee-high stocking and put it to soak in a gallon of hot water when I go to bed, then add it to my final ACV rinse the next day. This gives my white hairs a tinge of brown, just enough so the hairs are no longer transparent, as well as making the hair feel wonderfully soft and healthy. I grow the sage in my garden, the flowers feed the pollinators, and the leaves feed me and my hair!
THANK YOU for sharing this! 🙏🏼 I will try it out. Could you please tell us more about the herbs used for preventing, or even reversing, gray hair? And how to use them 😃
I dyed my hair for many years and it most likely did damage it, especially as I also had chemo a few years ago which caused some thinning. I then decided to go grey naturally and I've had soooo many positive comments about it! It isn't very evenly grey - I always had a much lighter streak from the top of my head but as the rest is going more grey this is becoming less noticeable. My hair is in much better condition now than it's been in for years, mostly because six months ago I started to follow a lot of the advice you gave on your channel. I'm so pleased with the results! I think grey hair suits an older face, too. I think one's skin tone alters with age, and dyed hair can look so unnatural. During the latter years of my hair dyeing, I did go quite light, not trying to retain my original natural very dark hair. It was probably easier to go grey from this lighter hue as well. I celebrated my 70th birthday at the end of last month (still not sure how I feel about that! - huge milestone somehow!) and am now definitely celebrating my natural grey hair. I have a filter jug for drinking as I can't stand the taste of our local water. As for showering I haven't investigated filtering this, but I only wash my hair once a month now so its effect is probably minimal. I also tend to wash rather than shower on a daily basis, concentrating on those areas most needing washing, and my skin is in good condition. I am convinced that too frequent showering can dry one's skin in the same way as too much washing can be damaging to hair. We are fortunate to live in a soft water area. I try to use natural soap as much as possible. I ration the amount of direct sunlight I receive too - I like to sit for about 15 mins in direct sun on sunny days for the Vitamin D but too much can definitely cause harm to skin and hair. I do use an apple cider vinegar rinse at the end of my hair washing routine. I now use a DIY shampoo made from pure Castile soap with a little jojoba oil mixed in, with some peppermint and rosemary essential oils. I found I couldn't get on with a clay wash but this shampoo is gentle and lovely for my hair. My hair has grown quite a bit since I started taking better care of it and I've gradually worked out the DIY products which work best for me. It is now below tail-bone length!! Lots of new baby hair growth on top and at my hairline too! This is definitely working!
Yay, I am doing so many things right! I have never dyed my hair and I have never used heat regularly, only for a special occasions, to achieve a certain look for an event or performance, and I think the last time I used heat on my hair was 9 years ago. (I try to achieve the same things with wet setting and other historical techniques, for those special occasions.) I have no gray hairs, but I do have a few scattered individual hairs that are pure white, and they are sparkly! So I actually like them. My hair is a reddish black, all my life people have remarked on the unusual color and asked me if it was dyed. I do not plan to ever dye my hair, however if the, "Magical sparking fairy hairs," I already have start to grow more numerous, I might have difficulty adjusting because my identity as being someone with long hair in my particular reddish-black shade would have to change, and if I find that difficult to cope with, I have a plan for using henna and indigo to dye it back to my original color. I won't use chemicals to dye my hair, only plants. (Well, technically there are chemicals in plants, but you know what I mean). Friends have been annoyed at me for not helping them dye their hair, but I do not want to expose myself to those chemicals. Use henna, and I wilo help! I fortunately live in a rural area where rainwater or well water are the only options for tab water, so I do not have to worry about chlorine in the water. I am going to suggest to my sister, who has lime in her water, that she might want to try filtering it, though. I have been trying to get her to watch your videos, her hair is similar to yours and she is having difficulty with shedding too much hair when detangling. Too bad that I am severely allergic to onions! I wonder if there are alternatives to onion juice that also work.
I have been watching your wonderfully uplifting channel for a couple of months now and am following your principals closely as it has been my lifelong dream to have beautiful long gypsyesque hair. I am 70 years old, so what! I don't feel my age at all. I am excited to find out about all these practices and methods of dealing with hair. I have never questioned my dull shampoo and conditioner hair routine at all I'm sad to admit until now. I have just over shoulder length hair that I have dyed at the salon a rich dark brown. It's done well and looks natural. I went white at the front and salt and pepper further back. It made me feel so old and just wasn't how I felt about myself. I had auburn hair in my younger days and then hennaed it to enrich the colour as I aged. My hair was much curlier and inclined to frizz and dryness then. Now, my hair has become a bit straighter with age and I like it much better as the curl is more relaxed, fortunately it is still thick. The processes I've employed since following you are working splendidly. I always believed that my hair wasn't genetically meant to grow past my shoulders. Already I'm seeing growth. It would be nice to go back to using henna and indigo to colour my hair but alas, I'm a bit too far on in years to start growing the dye out to replace it with those natural dyes. Thank you very, very much for all the research you've done on this subject. You have made me very happy. I also bought the Gua Shah face scrapers and rollers on your recommendation. They too are lovely to use. SO EXCITING!
I washed my hair with fullers earth or multani mitti today. Green tea + ACV as conditioner. Letting it dry now without using hair dryer. So far so good. Didn't notice hair fall in the shower 🚿
The ancient Hebrew people used to call grey hair, wisdom hair. They, as well as many other groups of people, have great respect for older people; something that’s lacking in many western societies today.
Oooh, I couldn't agree more! I don't want to criticise anyone for what they do with their hair, but I have discovered the dignity of allowing naturally grey hair, and some older people can look grotesque with their older faces and dyed hair. It is such a shame that our modern society is so youth-oriented and we have lost the sense of the dignity of old age, and the respect of the elderly who have a whole lifetime's experience behind them which helps them grow in wisdom. Young people definitely need to listen more to the oldies!! (I celebrated my 70th birthday just over a week ago...)
@@ShoshiPlatypus, I do agree! Happy belated! You’re a bit older than me; I was 62 at the beginning of the year. People in their 30’s and 40’s are now trying to learn what my parents and grandparents taught me. If we would just spend time to learn from the oldies, we would not be trying to learn it in our middle years…these kids don’t know how to do anything without their electronics…what will they do if some kind of disaster strikes? They will kill us oldies for what we have without bothering to learn what we know. The shortsighted problem is that once what they stole is gone…then what? 🤦♀️
@@readingdestination9025 Oh, I so agree. Shortsightedness is a problem across the board in today's society, fuelled by politicians who are not interested in long-term wisdom but only in staying in power and getting elected next time around. The attitude is "throw the old people and the babies on the scrap heap because they are useless eaters." Deeply shocking... I value so much what I learned in my youth from my mother and grandmother. Because of this I love being an old-fashhioned home-maker and I am sure it is where my love of creative art and craft came from, too - we were always encouraged to make things, and my older relatives taught me to sew, knit and crochet, and I learnt to cook too - when I was tiny I would stand on a box to reach the table, and I had my little pastry set and Mum would give me pastry to roll out to make jam tarts. We'd lick out the cake batter bowls and have fun in the kitchen! We were blessed to have a mum who was there for us and spent quality time with us. My happiest childhood memories. We never had a TV until I was in my early 20s and I often felt deprived compared with my school friends, but I'm glad now because the quality of our family life was better and we learnt how to be entertained by much more fruitful methods. We always ate together as a family too - so important for the communication between the generations. Thanks for the birthday wishes! Still not quite sure how I feel about having reached this significant milestone...
@@ShoshiPlatypus I know what you mean about reaching certain milestones… lol. My family wasn’t as awesome as yours, sadly, but we did do things that would be considered outrageous today, like…played outside ALL through the entire day! Lol The older I got seemed to signify a more dangerous, and by extension, a more fearful world. They fear what you and I took for granted. Now my little brother was murdered by a child molester, but that wasn’t near as common as it is now…plus nobody tried to “normalize” such behavior. I just don’t get how anyone could, but that’s one of the things being pushed nowadays. It truly is frightening.
I always forget about the hot water of the shower, even thought I do not wash it with super hot water, yesterday the water didn’t boil! So I did wash it with more cold water than usual, and it was supper smooth and shiny!
if you want to have historically accurate styles you are more likely to have an accurate look using heat before the twetieth century (water setting is not really possible when powder was used and we have evidence of what irons looked like for most era which is harder to find regarding pin curling and rollers) but haircare (washing, drying and styling) was done much less regularly than nowadays and heatstylin seems to have been seen as more coquettish than today. Looking clean and appropriate had more to do with having hare dressed than styled, since we don't dress our hair as much as we did, that responsability of having styled looking hair has fallen to setting the hair, using heat for most people due to the percieved convenience of heat tools
I always love your hair care videos 😍 I have very fine hair.....since a while i have been using only clay and shikakai power to wash. And pure henna to dye my hair, it gives an energetic boost on the hair. It feels so natural and makes it soft and it conditions the hair..No shampoo for me anymore. Thank you❤❤
I live in an area where water is very hard and using distilled water to wash my hair with once a month really makes a difference (for more often I just don't have the money).
Distilled water can easily be made using a couple pots and your own stove, it doesn't need to be expensive- I never pay for it, I always make it myself! Cheers
I definitely recommend Aquasana water filters. They do have a shower filter but I'd suggest getting the whole house filter. They run sales regularly and it's quite affordable. They also have a RO kitchen filter that is amazing. You'd be amazed at the difference. If the filter is turned off our tap water smells like straight up pool water. I never noticed it before using the filters but now I would never live in a house without a filter.
Thanks. I'll have to try one of those filters. I moved to an area with the hardest water imaginable. My old place had well water for the whole town, my hair was beautiful, glossy before. I want it back to that again. My water smells like sulfur sometimes.
@@walkawaycat431 I meant to say they have shower filters. I edited for clarity. But yes, I would look into getting some kind of filter. There are so many things in city water besides the chlorine that you want to avoid as well and that's the only way you can.
I do blowdry my beard everyday, but I do put oil who protect the hair. I also try the move the blowdryer to not let the heat on one spot. I follow the advices of Dan C Bearded. I only blowdry my hair after a wash, but I do add oil and still try to be cautious. I only wash my hair every one month. I think it's more like hard heat like straigthener or curl iron. 🌹
ask any dermatologist or trichologist : cold water rinse is a myth. I have heard that overly cold water water can slow down hair growth to some degree but i don't know how true it is. Cold showers are just not doing anything except cool you down. I do believe in vinegar rinses to seal cuticles because it makes sense to me (haven't looked into it much) but i believe minimal open cuticles are just a result of wet vs dry or alkaline vs acidic hair and anything beyond that cannot be repared only concealed.
I kinda have the same problem as you, trying to find evidence based information about hair care seems ... Challenging at best. Wonder if you have any recommendations on that ?
I enjoy your videos and agree about basic hair care. I'm platinum silver because, although I only used henna (color) now I use henna for silver hair which is strictly to condition. (Colora is an excellent henna product I've been using for years!)I have a blowdryer/diffuser that I use that blows with a cool-warm and then cool settings, otherwise I just wrap it in a t-shirt til dry. Big difference! I hate hot showers😂! I use a tepid-blood warm temp; it's comforting to me! Since I've subscribed to your channel, I've gone back to using my boar bristle brush and 50-100 strokes each night with a rosemary, tea tree and peppermint oil scalp massage. In just a month, I've seen a drastic change in my hair. It's a naturally straight curl, and it shines beautifully. I agree with you that, society has dictated how a woman's hair is to be cared for to look good and to be socially acceptable. As with many things including hair grooming, it pays to stay away from trendy hair care. I've learned to accept and care for my curly straight individuality and take pride in what I've been blessed to have! Keep up the good work, Katherine. Best wishes!❤
How do you dry your hair? Mine is almost tailbone length but if I don’t use a hairdryer it will take 10 hours to dry. I don’t want to go to sleep with damp hair. I’m going to start implementing your hair are routine. Also getting a boar brush. I used to use one . Then I started hearing how it was bad for hair. I agree that all these products are making our hair in a bad state. Someone is making a lot of money off of it.
My hair takes forever to dry too. I wash/wet my hair now, once a week, on Saturday morning. I use a shower cap the rest of the week. I leave my hair down on Saturday. I don't even brush it wet, I just finger rack it a bit to look ok. Pin up the sides just a bit to keep my hair out of my face. It will take all day for my dry. I will add oil and braid my hair before bed on Saturday night and brush it out on Sunday morning with more oil.
I have naturally curly hair..I’ve gone from long hair to shaving my head (My friend had stage 4 Brest cancer). My hair s now down to my butt. Long again. I got so excited when the flat irons came out. I enjoy straight hair but I only straighten it maybe once in 6 months. If you u heat tools use protectors,and give your hair a break. ❤❤❤
I really would like to be walking around with my natural hair without being judged. :c also ppl just treat you differently if straightened or curled your hair with heat
You have my dream hair. Mine is corkscrew, however lower density to yours and fine. Mau I ask, what your porosity, density and texture is? It will help me adjust what do do with mine.
One more thing with build u from hard water: it clogs the pores on the scalp and less hair can grow and over time, the amount of hair reduces noticeably.
@@ShoshiPlatypus, RIGHT!? Plus, my grey, like my mother before me, does not cover, so why fight it? Total waste of money and energy, in my humble opinion. 😂
The only heat I use is for my bangs to curl, I only have to curl them once a week usually after hair wash day and it’ll stay up and curled until next wash day. For styling I use water, salt/sea salt water the air drying, or a light amount of oil. I wash my hair in the sink, I use cold cold water on my hair and it never gets on my skin which means I never freak out. And for fun hair, I use wigs! Pastel pink my go to now. I already got my hair dying fix (dyed my hair the whole rainbow!) and now I use henna to keep my hair red in a healthy way since henna is extremely good for your hair and very very permanent so you just have to do your roots. It’s more permanent then hair dye tbh
Great to see you and important topics. In my case, the healthier my hair and oiled, the more grey falls out. I mean literally at the root. What's left doesn't go frizz despite having a texture like yours. I wash hair with warm shower then move forward or lift when cleaning with hotter temp. Great idea about filtering, did that before having softener and RO. There are other chemicals that are toxic to us depending on where we are in the water system. Ours is shocked assuming it won't be elevated by the time it reaches the consumer. Enjoy the weekend and thanks for sharing.
I bought a Belula boar bristle brush on Amazon. It came with a bag to store, wooden comb and two black plastic cleaning scrubbers for the brush. Does anyone get serious static electricity from their brush? Did I buy a fake brush? Love to all and thanks for any help❤
Yes, I get a lot of static from the boar bristle brushing but it doesn't really worry me. My boar bristle brush is a treasure and definitely the genuine article - it belonged to my great-grandmother and has the family crest on its ivory back. The bristles are blonde and the brush is a beautiful oval shape and feels gorgeous. Using it is like a massage. My hair gets 100 strokes! This beautiful brush is probably about 150 years old and I love the feeling of family continuity as I use it.
hey , I find your views on hair care very interesting and also logical. I'm going to the sea soon. Do you have any tips for me on how to care for and protect my hair? I probably have to wash it more often than usual.. Thank you ❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Hi Katherine , thank you for your wonderful videos . Could you please advise on what ratio of ACV : filtered water mix for final rinsing of hair . Thank you
I've been using a boar bristle brush the past couple of months and I think it's what causing my crazy damage to my ends. Has anyone else had this problem? I have curly, dry, low porosity hair
You do need to be more careful with brushes and curly hair. While I love boar bristle brushes, I take breaks from it to assess how my ends are doing. I also only use it once my curls are very stretched out and detangled (later in the week)
Depends on the plant. Not all plants are the same and some are stubborn. My natural hair color is literally sh!t color so I color it blonde, red or silver. I love silver hair because I can do the 18th century French hair care routine, which has done wonders for my hair and me. After the coloring process, I go lazy using powdered cleaning method and using bristle brushes... just be lazy until the next hair color treatment in two months later, which I use well water or the filtered water from my shower to wash out the bleach and two days later to wash out the color dye. Anyways back to my natural poo hair... I am not kidding... it is the ugliest ash gold brown you had ever seen. NO THANK YOU TO THE NATURAL COLOR POLICE. To each their own. And I have more hair than most women in my family, so my hair is as stubborn as the oyster purple green plants that thrives on concrete and sand. Lots of young gals would want to have my hair even though its natural color is caca. 🤣🤣🤣 I will agree some people go crazy with it, and I had been guilty of experimenting with my hair like they did before going back to dying silver and embracing the 18th century French method of caring my hair, which has dramatically caused it to grow from just 1 inch per month to now almost 2 inches a month.. and I even grew more hair around the front filling in the fathers hair line. Our ancestors (before 20th century) knew what they were doing and this is from someone who bleaches her hair to get the silver hair.
My water doesn’t get very warm at all…so I got this one down. Lol Although we have a high calcium content in our well water… I see what that does to my faucets and dishes, so I wonder if it would have a negative effect on my hair as well. 🤔
I have curly hair but not nice curly hair. What I’d like to know is after washing how do I style it without heat so I have nice curls, and to prevent blow drying. Do I style it when wet or dry and how?
Hi. I am patiently waiting for your video on how you are going to trim your hair. I havent had a cut for a year now and just started using your advice and recipies. I have very very fine, curly hair that breaks as easily as thread. I also cannot comb my hair as the comb gets stuck, but due to menopause my hair is uneven and I shed hair like a cat 😂. Since using your recipies, it has helped a lot but I still dont want to cut off a chunk. So how do I go about it?
Hi Katherine, I've watched a few of your videos on hair care and love the idea of it, and I'm trying to implement your methods! I can't claim to see a difference yet as I still need to do all these things consistently. But I have a question, do you reckon some people are just been with luscious hair, and they don't really need to do anything much to keep it looking nice? Whereas for others, it's about getting the balance right in our bodies to produce nicer or 'normal' hair. Because there are people who I'm sure use blowdryers all the time, or the regular supermarkets shampoos and still have lovely looking hair!! So why is their hair still good?!
my hair has stayed at about the same length off and on for many years. i used to dye my hair with henna & indigo, however my natural color is very similar to yours (dark brown) and therefore didn’t have extremely drastic results. i’ve always wanted to have red/copper hair since i was a little kid and i finally decided to do it a couple years ago (first bleach, now permanent dye). i honestly haven’t noticed a huge difference in my hair health, as i have always struggled with split ends and breakage for as long as i can remember. but i’ve been wanting to try a shower filter for so long ! also trying some of your other tips that i haven’t done yet to see if i can finally get past this growth plateau ! ps. to any magical silver / grey / white haired people: genetically my family gets very little grey hairs which makes me bummed lol cuz i really hope i can have a full head of grey hair when im older ! i think its so stunning and whimsical. cheers 🤍
I always wash my hair separately so I can use lukewarm water. I mainly dye my hair with henna and indigo. Let me tell you the stylists think that’s the devil. Meanwhile my hair is more healthier then anytime I dyed my gray hair with chemical dyes. Professional or otherwise. It doesn’t make sense to me. The only thing I can think of is the encounters of clients with fake henna, or people wanting to change their hair color frequently. Also the henna brows being offered as a service now isn’t real henna at all. These things make me crazy.
Question: I have grey hair, it is doing ok. I sleep on my back and wake up with “chair hair” Split part. I might add I have a tiny scar at the crown of my head. How do I fix this without j Hair products? Do you have any suggestions ?
@@brittanypennington9716 I braid my longer-than-tailbone length hair and pin it up in a circle on the back of my head. I made several sleep caps from old white soft cotton T-shirts and always cover my head with one of these for sleep. I found a silk scarf would just fall off.
I'd love to filter my water, but O can't afford to do so. Is there another way? Is bottlecwater better? Or is that just tape water too? I live in the UK.
I am in the same situation. I use once per week a scalp scrub, affordable one is from body shop, more expensive it’s from Christophe Robin. Also, a shampoo that helps with hard water, Loreal metal detox or Hello Klean hard water shampoo, I use it once a month
Hi. You mentioned a link to a site for a good natural Henna dye. Am I just missing it? I’m not ready to embrace my graying hair but I have been on the hunt for a healthier option.
Love your advice so different to most. My dying hair journey is I have only died my hair once all over and once with two streaks in the front in my late teens in the late 90's. I say if you can't get your hair colour in a bottle why die it. I cant find my colour directly in a bottle. As my strands are not an even colour. As if you colour your hair and hate colour you chose. You cant get it back with out chopping it off. If not in a bottle. Colouring hair is fine for people who like to do that.. But lighten hair. When you die it lighter it will strip the colour out. Going from a dark colour brown (like you have in video) to blonde is silly. to much of a colour lightning. But the worst hair colour is to be is say is in the greys. As it strips out all the colour from your hair almost. This colour is for when it to naturally turns and most don't get grey at least until any time after 60 anyway. I relay if ever use heat on my hair. As I don't think it is necessary, Uunless it takes all day to dry. But if must don't fully dry it. Will help out.
This trendy it is modern. Tight, the way you display your page. Gigantic show. We sharpen our tools and the edit skill so we grow after pandemic! What's Rec & Red? i just clicked it just now? haha. keep in touch!
But blow drying hair on very low heat is actually healthier for the hair, because the hair is at its weakest when it's wet and drying it shortens the time it stays in this weak state
The pandemic Plandemic gave all of us a chance to review expensive and damaging hair management to return to more simple routines that are also more self accepting ❤
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Hey, can you please show us how you use hair oil on your scalp and how you wash it off with rhassoul clay? Because I tried to use kaolin and it just made my hair sticky, I also am not able to wash off oil (one teaspoon) with only one wash with my soap 😢
Thank you so much Katherine 🙏😊
So appreciate the research and common sense here. I have baby fine and thin hair. I’m now in my 50’s. I started in January to implement your advise. I got results, not just noticed by myself but I’m now getting comments like, “your hair looks thicker”. That is amazing! I never knew how fragile my hair was. I am now gentle with it, way less heat, protective styles, shower filter, oils, healthy eating, and msm. Making friends with the way your hair is naturally…is important. Be content, worry less about what others think. Enjoy what the Lord made.🙂
Love it! ❤
Fantastic! 💖💖
I colored periodically over the past 10 years. I did start going gray 5 years ago and decided to embrace my gray in 2020, my hair is now my new obsession. I have enjoyed these videos.
You can use henna or different herbs to dye naturally your hair and take care of them without anything chemical❤ if you want😊
Gray and silver are my favorite, along with copper reds. If I grow silver hair like my tia on my moms' side I will just not need to color it. I will do gloss treatments to cut out the yellows caused by hard water. No amount of filtering cuts the hard water that is Hialeah Caca Water system.
Wash my hair once a week. Keep it up most the time. Don’t ever use heats or products in it. Oil with avocado oil. Don’t dye it. My hair is almost waist length now. Love your content
In the old days people ate a lot of animal proteins and fats which are rich in necessary minerals and vitamins that our bodies need to grow healthy hair and nails as well as maintain bone health and prevent cavities/maintain teeth and gum health.
Hey girl! Are you able to address the topic of haircare after a workout, especially for us curlies? Would love to hear any natural tips for this. Your content is such a joy to discover and learn from ♥
One thing I'm noticing nowadays after 4 months of using Katherine's advice, is how shiny my hair is getting. It looks like the most expensive glittery gray metallic surface! I'll remember the cold hair rinse, i remember my mum mentioned that back in the day - and complaining her hair got oilier more quickly... But she never had a BBB!
THanks Kat you're making such a difference❤
proud owner of thigh-length hair ❤
rosemary water also prevents graying! my husband uses it :) my house has well water, and it can be very hard water at times, it can even give my strands a whitish tint :/ ill try out the apple cider vinegar rinse, i barely do anything to my hair besides oiling the mid length to the ends, maybe the rinse will help with some of the hard water leftovers on my hair, definitely will be looking into a filter attachment! your hair is gorgeous 🧡✨️
Does ACV dry hair? Mines soooo dry and brittle, frizzy. Been trying to grow ig for 20yrs it's finally got to my tail bone but had to cut 3inch off cause the bobbles I wear break the ends. Xxx
@@traceyannsummers9819 do an egg mask! And then go easy on the ACV. The egg wash will reset your hair texture and make it beautifully soft. The ACV has to be diluted! I got that wrong in the beginning as well and had to learn the hard way 😅
Do you make rosemary water rinse? How?
I love your take on grey hair. I heard back in the day that shepards would move their flocks from pasture to pasture when their darker sheep would start to turn lighter in color. This was due to not enough minerals in their diet. Greys show up more quickly on those of us with darker hair, like those sheep.
I thought this was interesting because my hair stopped getting grey when I started to destress and eat more proteins ect, foods in higher minerals.
How interesting about the sheep! I'd never heard about that before. I am now naturally grey and really enjoying it, especially thanks to Katherine's hair care tips. It is also a whole lot less work since I stopped dyeing it!!
Your videos are so peaceful. The combo of your voice and the classical music is just lovely
As someone who has had long hair for decades, I mostly agree with everything said here and in her related hair care videos. But I have very different hair than Katherine (who has gorgeous, curly, DRY hair.). Maybe my routine below will help people adapt the important principles Katherine teaches to their own hair.
My hair is medium fine and mostly straight. It is oily with a tendency toward itchy, yeast-caused dandruff. My ends would be happy never being washed. My scalp wants a daily bath. So it's a balance.
I have learned that to extend the time between washes, I MUST USE HEAT on my scalp. Otherwise, the yeast sets in and starts causing itchiness and dandruff by day 2. Also, no-poo options always leave my hair with way too much oil and itchiness.
So I combine "new" hair care with "historic" hair care with great success. (Basically, combine the Blowout professor with Katherine and a touch of Abby Yung and you have it.)
Wash day One Day a Week only using professional, modern methods. This is scalp care that protects ends.
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Prewash: oil ends only to protect against the coming heat and moisture.
Shower: HOT water to shampoo. Tepid water to rinse out conditioner.
Shower Products: professional shampoo (wash scalp only, not hair... then rinse and repeat). professional conditioner on mids/ends only.
Post-Shower: Microfiber wrap for 15 minutes, then Professional leave-in conditioner and detangle with Wet brush. Then professional heat protectant.
Dry: Blow dryer on hot with ceramic boar bristle brush to shape. Make sure the scalp takes most of the heat focus, to kill yeast.
Between washes. Historic methods that protect ends and dry clean hair.
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Limit handling hair to a detangle/style both AM and PM. Midday handling increases scalp oils.
Nightly, use homemade dry shampoo and a boar bristle brush to "dry wash".
Nightly, if root hair feels dry, lightly oil ends of hair. If root hair feels a bit iffy, do NOT oil ends of hair.
Nightly, style hair "up" (loose milk maids/loose bun on top of hair). If root hair feels iffy, the style should stuff the ends of the hair up at the crown (ends will soak up the oil and give my scalp an extra day.) Wrap head in a silk scarf to significantly reduce braid shed and breakage.
Morning, detangle with Wet Brush. only oil ends with a few drops of lightweight hair oil if they seem dry and dull. wear hair loose day one or two - otherwise use protective hair styles (Katherine has awesome videos on this.)
By combining methods this way I have had great success in extending time between washes and avoiding build up of sebum on the scalp or excessive dryness at the ends. I haven't had a trim in over a year and do not think I need one at all. My hair is healthy and has no split ends and usually makes it a week between washes this way.
I hope that helps someone with hair more like mine than Katherine's. I'm very jealous of the no-poo people, but that's for my dry-scalp friends.
Thank you for putting your knowledge out there. My hair has never looked or felt better sense using your techniques. I have always dreamed of what I call princess hair. Which is to your hip hair just like yours. I've always tired to take care of my hair but in a modern world your only taught modern techniques. I am so happy I have found you my hair feels so much healthier then it ever has. My face doesn't break out like it use to. Thank you so much for making a difference in my life.
Same here! I couldn't agree with you more!
If I didn't color my hair it would be white. I can go without the heat but the white just depresses me. I tried to grow it out, made it to my ears and just couldn't do it. My hair is almost to my rear, I am just gentle with it and although I color it every 4 weeks I try not to use heat and let it dry naturally.
You can use henna instead of hair dye ! It's natural and doesn't affect hair .
I just turned 49 a few days ago and I decided a couple of years ago that I'm not dying my hair anymore. I don't have too many greys yet but they're there. I don't use heat on my hair either and I'm always telling my 19 year old daughter to do the same because I've noticed the difference in my own hair and she has beautiful brown thick ringlets.
I haven't used heat on my hair for about 25 years. It was past my waist until I got vivid a year and a half ago. I lost about 50% of my hair to vivid and ended up cutting to just below my shoulders. It's starting to grow back out, but it has a ways to go to get back where it was. Oh, and it's coming back curly.
Maam , u r true of almost all what you said regarding how the modern society continuosly changes almost all real perceptions of life and health
Great vid! In February of 2022 I started picking out the dreads that had developed on my head over the really drippy cold winter and my once magnificent mane had been reduced to a very uneven bob. I'm just wanting to get my hair back to wild man length of just below my shoulders, and just about a month ago started researching. You were one of the first ones, thankfully, and then there's this guy called Blowout Professor. He had great info on the basic structure of hair, but since I had the good fortune of finding your hair oil recipe first I took in his advice on bottles of carcinogenic, endocrine disrupting sludge with a high dose of critique. He goes so far as to recommend heat on a regular basis, and then we can sell you bottles of sludge to compensate for the damage. He merely mentioned in passing that some people like boar bristle brushes, then took the rest of the time of the brush chapter of his video talking about plastic. Since I took on periodic oiling with castor oil, ditched my plastic wide tooth comb for dry finger only, and the boar bristle brush and my returning mane is coming out more shiny and not greasy, less frizzy than it was when I was 20, 10, 5 years younger. Also the growth is seeming faster what with the ends getting much better treatment than they could ever get with a plastic comb. I have yet to mix up a batch of your oil recipe and want to do that soon. Easier to afford in the near future is some clay and vinegar to finish off my chucking out of all the modern hair 'care' methods. Thanks so much for sharing these things! My beard is doing so much better also, soft, shiny and not at all frizzy.
Great to hear a guy's take on this! Love the idea of a magnificent mane of wild man length! Go for it!!
Sarah Ingle has great advice too! I'm using it in conjunction with this advice!
I really enjoy your calm and gentle way of explaining thing. I would love to hear you talk more about hairstyles for bedtime.
I totally agree with how beautiful natural aging is. Life is supposed to work that way
Over the past 3 months I have noticed something amazing which is that I dont need commercial shampoo on my scalp. I rarely need to scrub my scalp anymore- a dip/rinse in the tub and a quick wash/condition on my hair, 3x a week is great. I think I was mistaken about the need to use all that soap on my head. I do have clay and vinegar whenever I will scrub my scalp. It might be my age - 63 but whatever it is, life is so much easier.
I have extremely dry skin and hair. My doctor told me to take a bath, not a shower, once or twice a week at most. Since I'm sensitive to waaay too many chemicals, i switched to natural castile shampoo with an apple cider vinegar rinse some years ago and my hair and scalp are so much more comfortable now. I occasionally put 1/2 cup of crushed sage leaves in an old knee-high stocking and put it to soak in a gallon of hot water when I go to bed, then add it to my final ACV rinse the next day. This gives my white hairs a tinge of brown, just enough so the hairs are no longer transparent, as well as making the hair feel wonderfully soft and healthy. I grow the sage in my garden, the flowers feed the pollinators, and the leaves feed me and my hair!
THANK YOU for sharing this! 🙏🏼 I will try it out. Could you please tell us more about the herbs used for preventing, or even reversing, gray hair? And how to use them 😃
I dyed my hair for many years and it most likely did damage it, especially as I also had chemo a few years ago which caused some thinning. I then decided to go grey naturally and I've had soooo many positive comments about it! It isn't very evenly grey - I always had a much lighter streak from the top of my head but as the rest is going more grey this is becoming less noticeable. My hair is in much better condition now than it's been in for years, mostly because six months ago I started to follow a lot of the advice you gave on your channel. I'm so pleased with the results!
I think grey hair suits an older face, too. I think one's skin tone alters with age, and dyed hair can look so unnatural. During the latter years of my hair dyeing, I did go quite light, not trying to retain my original natural very dark hair. It was probably easier to go grey from this lighter hue as well. I celebrated my 70th birthday at the end of last month (still not sure how I feel about that! - huge milestone somehow!) and am now definitely celebrating my natural grey hair.
I have a filter jug for drinking as I can't stand the taste of our local water. As for showering I haven't investigated filtering this, but I only wash my hair once a month now so its effect is probably minimal. I also tend to wash rather than shower on a daily basis, concentrating on those areas most needing washing, and my skin is in good condition. I am convinced that too frequent showering can dry one's skin in the same way as too much washing can be damaging to hair. We are fortunate to live in a soft water area. I try to use natural soap as much as possible. I ration the amount of direct sunlight I receive too - I like to sit for about 15 mins in direct sun on sunny days for the Vitamin D but too much can definitely cause harm to skin and hair.
I do use an apple cider vinegar rinse at the end of my hair washing routine. I now use a DIY shampoo made from pure Castile soap with a little jojoba oil mixed in, with some peppermint and rosemary essential oils. I found I couldn't get on with a clay wash but this shampoo is gentle and lovely for my hair.
My hair has grown quite a bit since I started taking better care of it and I've gradually worked out the DIY products which work best for me. It is now below tail-bone length!! Lots of new baby hair growth on top and at my hairline too! This is definitely working!
Yay, I am doing so many things right! I have never dyed my hair and I have never used heat regularly, only for a special occasions, to achieve a certain look for an event or performance, and I think the last time I used heat on my hair was 9 years ago. (I try to achieve the same things with wet setting and other historical techniques, for those special occasions.) I have no gray hairs, but I do have a few scattered individual hairs that are pure white, and they are sparkly! So I actually like them. My hair is a reddish black, all my life people have remarked on the unusual color and asked me if it was dyed. I do not plan to ever dye my hair, however if the, "Magical sparking fairy hairs," I already have start to grow more numerous, I might have difficulty adjusting because my identity as being someone with long hair in my particular reddish-black shade would have to change, and if I find that difficult to cope with, I have a plan for using henna and indigo to dye it back to my original color. I won't use chemicals to dye my hair, only plants. (Well, technically there are chemicals in plants, but you know what I mean). Friends have been annoyed at me for not helping them dye their hair, but I do not want to expose myself to those chemicals. Use henna, and I wilo help!
I fortunately live in a rural area where rainwater or well water are the only options for tab water, so I do not have to worry about chlorine in the water. I am going to suggest to my sister, who has lime in her water, that she might want to try filtering it, though. I have been trying to get her to watch your videos, her hair is similar to yours and she is having difficulty with shedding too much hair when detangling.
Too bad that I am severely allergic to onions! I wonder if there are alternatives to onion juice that also work.
I have been watching your wonderfully uplifting channel for a couple of months now and am following your principals closely as it has been my lifelong dream to have beautiful long gypsyesque hair. I am 70 years old, so what! I don't feel my age at all. I am excited to find out about all these practices and methods of dealing with hair. I have never questioned my dull shampoo and conditioner hair routine at all I'm sad to admit until now. I have just over shoulder length hair that I have dyed at the salon a rich dark brown. It's done well and looks natural. I went white at the front and salt and pepper further back. It made me feel so old and just wasn't how I felt about myself. I had auburn hair in my younger days and then hennaed it to enrich the colour as I aged. My hair was much curlier and inclined to frizz and dryness then. Now, my hair has become a bit straighter with age and I like it much better as the curl is more relaxed, fortunately it is still thick. The processes I've employed since following you are working splendidly. I always believed that my hair wasn't genetically meant to grow past my shoulders. Already I'm seeing growth. It would be nice to go back to using henna and indigo to colour my hair but alas, I'm a bit too far on in years to start growing the dye out to replace it with those natural dyes. Thank you very, very much for all the research you've done on this subject. You have made me very happy. I also bought the Gua Shah face scrapers and rollers on your recommendation. They too are lovely to use. SO EXCITING!
I washed my hair with fullers earth or multani mitti today. Green tea + ACV as conditioner. Letting it dry now without using hair dryer. So far so good. Didn't notice hair fall in the shower 🚿
Since following a lot of Katherine's techniques, I have noticed a lot less hair loss in the shower and in my brush.
The ancient Hebrew people used to call grey hair, wisdom hair. They, as well as many other groups of people, have great respect for older people; something that’s lacking in many western societies today.
Oooh, I couldn't agree more! I don't want to criticise anyone for what they do with their hair, but I have discovered the dignity of allowing naturally grey hair, and some older people can look grotesque with their older faces and dyed hair. It is such a shame that our modern society is so youth-oriented and we have lost the sense of the dignity of old age, and the respect of the elderly who have a whole lifetime's experience behind them which helps them grow in wisdom. Young people definitely need to listen more to the oldies!! (I celebrated my 70th birthday just over a week ago...)
@@ShoshiPlatypus, I do agree! Happy belated! You’re a bit older than me; I was 62 at the beginning of the year. People in their 30’s and 40’s are now trying to learn what my parents and grandparents taught me. If we would just spend time to learn from the oldies, we would not be trying to learn it in our middle years…these kids don’t know how to do anything without their electronics…what will they do if some kind of disaster strikes? They will kill us oldies for what we have without bothering to learn what we know. The shortsighted problem is that once what they stole is gone…then what? 🤦♀️
@@readingdestination9025 Oh, I so agree. Shortsightedness is a problem across the board in today's society, fuelled by politicians who are not interested in long-term wisdom but only in staying in power and getting elected next time around. The attitude is "throw the old people and the babies on the scrap heap because they are useless eaters." Deeply shocking...
I value so much what I learned in my youth from my mother and grandmother. Because of this I love being an old-fashhioned home-maker and I am sure it is where my love of creative art and craft came from, too - we were always encouraged to make things, and my older relatives taught me to sew, knit and crochet, and I learnt to cook too - when I was tiny I would stand on a box to reach the table, and I had my little pastry set and Mum would give me pastry to roll out to make jam tarts. We'd lick out the cake batter bowls and have fun in the kitchen! We were blessed to have a mum who was there for us and spent quality time with us. My happiest childhood memories.
We never had a TV until I was in my early 20s and I often felt deprived compared with my school friends, but I'm glad now because the quality of our family life was better and we learnt how to be entertained by much more fruitful methods. We always ate together as a family too - so important for the communication between the generations.
Thanks for the birthday wishes! Still not quite sure how I feel about having reached this significant milestone...
@@ShoshiPlatypus I know what you mean about reaching certain milestones… lol. My family wasn’t as awesome as yours, sadly, but we did do things that would be considered outrageous today, like…played outside ALL through the entire day! Lol The older I got seemed to signify a more dangerous, and by extension, a more fearful world. They fear what you and I took for granted. Now my little brother was murdered by a child molester, but that wasn’t near as common as it is now…plus nobody tried to “normalize” such behavior. I just don’t get how anyone could, but that’s one of the things being pushed nowadays. It truly is frightening.
I always forget about the hot water of the shower, even thought I do not wash it with super hot water, yesterday the water didn’t boil! So I did wash it with more cold water than usual, and it was supper smooth and shiny!
if you want to have historically accurate styles you are more likely to have an accurate look using heat before the twetieth century (water setting is not really possible when powder was used and we have evidence of what irons looked like for most era which is harder to find regarding pin curling and rollers) but haircare (washing, drying and styling) was done much less regularly than nowadays and heatstylin seems to have been seen as more coquettish than today. Looking clean and appropriate had more to do with having hare dressed than styled, since we don't dress our hair as much as we did, that responsability of having styled looking hair has fallen to setting the hair, using heat for most people due to the percieved convenience of heat tools
I always love your hair care videos 😍 I have very fine hair.....since a while i have been using only clay and shikakai power to wash. And pure henna to dye my hair, it gives an energetic boost on the hair. It feels so natural and makes it soft and it conditions the hair..No shampoo for me anymore. Thank you❤❤
I live in an area where water is very hard and using distilled water to wash my hair with once a month really makes a difference (for more often I just don't have the money).
Distilled water can easily be made using a couple pots and your own stove, it doesn't need to be expensive- I never pay for it, I always make it myself!
Cheers
I was considering trying to do that. How do you maintain your hair and scalp between washes?
I definitely recommend Aquasana water filters. They do have a shower filter but I'd suggest getting the whole house filter. They run sales regularly and it's quite affordable. They also have a RO kitchen filter that is amazing. You'd be amazed at the difference. If the filter is turned off our tap water smells like straight up pool water. I never noticed it before using the filters but now I would never live in a house without a filter.
Thanks. I'll have to try one of those filters. I moved to an area with the hardest water imaginable. My old place had well water for the whole town, my hair was beautiful, glossy before. I want it back to that again. My water smells like sulfur sometimes.
@@walkawaycat431 I meant to say they have shower filters. I edited for clarity. But yes, I would look into getting some kind of filter. There are so many things in city water besides the chlorine that you want to avoid as well and that's the only way you can.
I do blowdry my beard everyday, but I do put oil who protect the hair. I also try the move the blowdryer to not let the heat on one spot. I follow the advices of Dan C Bearded. I only blowdry my hair after a wash, but I do add oil and still try to be cautious. I only wash my hair every one month. I think it's more like hard heat like straigthener or curl iron. 🌹
ask any dermatologist or trichologist : cold water rinse is a myth. I have heard that overly cold water water can slow down hair growth to some degree but i don't know how true it is. Cold showers are just not doing anything except cool you down. I do believe in vinegar rinses to seal cuticles because it makes sense to me (haven't looked into it much) but i believe minimal open cuticles are just a result of wet vs dry or alkaline vs acidic hair and anything beyond that cannot be repared only concealed.
I kinda have the same problem as you, trying to find evidence based information about hair care seems ... Challenging at best. Wonder if you have any recommendations on that ?
I've dropped post-shower moisturizers as a result of lowering the shower temp. Yeeeeeears of ignorance. 😅
I enjoy your videos and agree about basic hair care. I'm platinum silver because, although I only used henna (color) now I use henna for silver hair which is strictly to condition. (Colora is an excellent henna product I've been using for years!)I have a blowdryer/diffuser that I use that blows with a cool-warm and then cool settings, otherwise I just wrap it in a t-shirt til dry. Big difference! I hate hot showers😂! I use a tepid-blood warm temp; it's comforting to me! Since I've subscribed to your channel, I've gone back to using my boar bristle brush and 50-100 strokes each night with a rosemary, tea tree and peppermint oil scalp massage. In just a month, I've seen a drastic change in my hair. It's a naturally straight curl, and it shines beautifully. I agree with you that, society has dictated how a woman's hair is to be cared for to look good and to be socially acceptable. As with many things including hair grooming, it pays to stay away from trendy hair care. I've learned to accept and care for my curly straight individuality and take pride in what I've been blessed to have! Keep up the good work, Katherine. Best wishes!❤
Thank you for the good Advice 😊
How do you dry your hair? Mine is almost tailbone length but if I don’t use a hairdryer it will take 10 hours to dry. I don’t want to go to sleep with damp hair. I’m going to start implementing your hair are routine. Also getting a boar brush. I used to use one . Then I started hearing how it was bad for hair. I agree that all these products are making our hair in a bad state. Someone is making a lot of money off of it.
My hair takes forever to dry too. I wash/wet my hair now, once a week, on Saturday morning. I use a shower cap the rest of the week. I leave my hair down on Saturday. I don't even brush it wet, I just finger rack it a bit to look ok. Pin up the sides just a bit to keep my hair out of my face. It will take all day for my dry. I will add oil and braid my hair before bed on Saturday night and brush it out on Sunday morning with more oil.
I have naturally curly hair..I’ve gone from long hair to shaving my head (My friend had stage 4 Brest cancer). My hair s now down to my butt. Long again. I got so excited when the flat irons came out. I enjoy straight hair but I only straighten it maybe once in 6 months. If you u heat tools use protectors,and give your hair a break. ❤❤❤
Would love if you’d make a video on all natural products you use for your children! Shampoos, body wash, moisturizer etc ♥️
Great video. Thank-you so very much.
O my goodness! I am SO glad that I found you!!!
Another awesome video indeed! I’m getting lots of tips to put into practice.. already doing couple stuffs from ur past videos 😊 Thanks so much..
I'm 26 and trying to embrace my hairs that are turning silver. Not really feeling ready for it.
I have a curling iron and flat iron but only use curlers that I sleep in because I get a better look and feel
I really would like to be walking around with my natural hair without being judged. :c also ppl just treat you differently if straightened or curled your hair with heat
You have my dream hair. Mine is corkscrew, however lower density to yours and fine. Mau I ask, what your porosity, density and texture is? It will help me adjust what do do with mine.
I also LOVE grey hair!!! I can't wait!
I shower in hot water but don’t wash my hair until it’s been turned cold. When I’m done I put my hair in a clip to protect it since cold showers suck
One more thing with build u from hard water: it clogs the pores on the scalp and less hair can grow and over time, the amount of hair reduces noticeably.
I also haven’t colored my hair in about 10-15 years now. I have embraced my greying. 😂
Embracing it is fun, isn't it! It's also a lot less time consuming than all that dyeing, and messing up the bathroom too!!
@@ShoshiPlatypus, RIGHT!? Plus, my grey, like my mother before me, does not cover, so why fight it? Total waste of money and energy, in my humble opinion. 😂
@@readingdestination9025 Agreed!
The only heat I use is for my bangs to curl, I only have to curl them once a week usually after hair wash day and it’ll stay up and curled until next wash day. For styling I use water, salt/sea salt water the air drying, or a light amount of oil. I wash my hair in the sink, I use cold cold water on my hair and it never gets on my skin which means I never freak out.
And for fun hair, I use wigs! Pastel pink my go to now. I already got my hair dying fix (dyed my hair the whole rainbow!) and now I use henna to keep my hair red in a healthy way since henna is extremely good for your hair and very very permanent so you just have to do your roots. It’s more permanent then hair dye tbh
Great to see you and important topics.
In my case, the healthier my hair and oiled, the more grey falls out. I mean literally at the root.
What's left doesn't go frizz despite having a texture like yours.
I wash hair with warm shower then move forward or lift when cleaning with hotter temp.
Great idea about filtering, did that before having softener and RO.
There are other chemicals that are toxic to us depending on where we are in the water system. Ours is shocked assuming it won't be elevated by the time it reaches the consumer.
Enjoy the weekend and thanks for sharing.
Thank you! & any chance you can leave a link to that henna dye product? Can spot it anywhere :(
Grey hsie looks good only on some people, also it depends how thecgrey hsir distributes
I love your videos! Keep them coming! Would you be able to post the henna company you mention? Thank you!
I bought a Belula boar bristle brush on Amazon. It came with a bag to store, wooden comb and two black plastic cleaning scrubbers for the brush. Does anyone get serious static electricity from their brush? Did I buy a fake brush? Love to all and thanks for any help❤
Yeah I get static from it as well. It’s gotten a little better though
Yes, I get a lot of static from the boar bristle brushing but it doesn't really worry me. My boar bristle brush is a treasure and definitely the genuine article - it belonged to my great-grandmother and has the family crest on its ivory back. The bristles are blonde and the brush is a beautiful oval shape and feels gorgeous. Using it is like a massage. My hair gets 100 strokes! This beautiful brush is probably about 150 years old and I love the feeling of family continuity as I use it.
hey ,
I find your views on hair care very interesting and also logical.
I'm going to the sea soon.
Do you have any tips for me on how to care for and protect my hair?
I probably have to wash it more often than usual..
Thank you ❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Hi Katherine , thank you for your wonderful videos .
Could you please advise on what ratio of ACV : filtered water mix for final rinsing of hair . Thank you
2 cups water to 1-2 TBS apple cider vinegar.
Hi Katherine I am unable to find the link to the natural hair color you mention in your video.
I've been using a boar bristle brush the past couple of months and I think it's what causing my crazy damage to my ends. Has anyone else had this problem? I have curly, dry, low porosity hair
You do need to be more careful with brushes and curly hair. While I love boar bristle brushes, I take breaks from it to assess how my ends are doing. I also only use it once my curls are very stretched out and detangled (later in the week)
@@KatherineSewing thanks so much for your response!
Depends on the plant. Not all plants are the same and some are stubborn. My natural hair color is literally sh!t color so I color it blonde, red or silver. I love silver hair because I can do the 18th century French hair care routine, which has done wonders for my hair and me. After the coloring process, I go lazy using powdered cleaning method and using bristle brushes... just be lazy until the next hair color treatment in two months later, which I use well water or the filtered water from my shower to wash out the bleach and two days later to wash out the color dye. Anyways back to my natural poo hair... I am not kidding... it is the ugliest ash gold brown you had ever seen. NO THANK YOU TO THE NATURAL COLOR POLICE. To each their own. And I have more hair than most women in my family, so my hair is as stubborn as the oyster purple green plants that thrives on concrete and sand. Lots of young gals would want to have my hair even though its natural color is caca. 🤣🤣🤣 I will agree some people go crazy with it, and I had been guilty of experimenting with my hair like they did before going back to dying silver and embracing the 18th century French method of caring my hair, which has dramatically caused it to grow from just 1 inch per month to now almost 2 inches a month.. and I even grew more hair around the front filling in the fathers hair line. Our ancestors (before 20th century) knew what they were doing and this is from someone who bleaches her hair to get the silver hair.
What was that hair dye company you mentioned? I can't seem to find it in your links.
My water doesn’t get very warm at all…so I got this one down. Lol Although we have a high calcium content in our well water… I see what that does to my faucets and dishes, so I wonder if it would have a negative effect on my hair as well. 🤔
How about swimmers? How would you advice me to wash my hair after swimming? I swim every week and I would like to try your natural hair care advice.
I know they aren't pretty, but a swimmer's cap is really the best option here. Limit that chlorine exposure on the hair, because it tears it up.
@@CJ_536 Thanks I’m going to try it
I have curly hair but not nice curly hair. What I’d like to know is after washing how do I style it without heat so I have nice curls, and to prevent blow drying. Do I style it when wet or dry and how?
Hi. I am patiently waiting for your video on how you are going to trim your hair. I havent had a cut for a year now and just started using your advice and recipies. I have very very fine, curly hair that breaks as easily as thread. I also cannot comb my hair as the comb gets stuck, but due to menopause my hair is uneven and I shed hair like a cat 😂. Since using your recipies, it has helped a lot but I still dont want to cut off a chunk. So how do I go about it?
How can we check the hardness of water?
Hi Katherine, I've watched a few of your videos on hair care and love the idea of it, and I'm trying to implement your methods! I can't claim to see a difference yet as I still need to do all these things consistently. But I have a question, do you reckon some people are just been with luscious hair, and they don't really need to do anything much to keep it looking nice? Whereas for others, it's about getting the balance right in our bodies to produce nicer or 'normal' hair. Because there are people who I'm sure use blowdryers all the time, or the regular supermarkets shampoos and still have lovely looking hair!! So why is their hair still good?!
Hi. Do you trim your hair?
Is the apple cider vinegar rinse the very last step?
Yes 😊
With the apple cider vinegar rinse, do you leave this on your hair or rinse it out after a while?? How do you make it please?
my hair has stayed at about the same length off and on for many years. i used to dye my hair with henna & indigo, however my natural color is very similar to yours (dark brown) and therefore didn’t have extremely drastic results. i’ve always wanted to have red/copper hair since i was a little kid and i finally decided to do it a couple years ago (first bleach, now permanent dye). i honestly haven’t noticed a huge difference in my hair health, as i have always struggled with split ends and breakage for as long as i can remember. but i’ve been wanting to try a shower filter for so long ! also trying some of your other tips that i haven’t done yet to see if i can finally get past this growth plateau !
ps. to any magical silver / grey / white haired people: genetically my family gets very little grey hairs which makes me bummed lol cuz i really hope i can have a full head of grey hair when im older ! i think its so stunning and whimsical. cheers 🤍
I always wash my hair separately so I can use lukewarm water. I mainly dye my hair with henna and indigo. Let me tell you the stylists think that’s the devil. Meanwhile my hair is more healthier then anytime I dyed my gray hair with chemical dyes. Professional or otherwise. It doesn’t make sense to me. The only thing I can think of is the encounters of clients with fake henna, or people wanting to change their hair color frequently. Also the henna brows being offered as a service now isn’t real henna at all. These things make me crazy.
I have to pull my rather short very curly hair back daily for work. What is the best way to do that without damaging my 3 very curly thin hair.?
Question: I have grey hair, it is doing ok. I sleep on my back and wake up with “chair hair”
Split part. I might add I have a tiny scar at the crown of my head. How do I fix this without j
Hair products?
Do you have any suggestions ?
Silk scarf or silk sleep cap or bonnet could help! Or a silk pillowcase.
@@brittanypennington9716 I braid my longer-than-tailbone length hair and pin it up in a circle on the back of my head. I made several sleep caps from old white soft cotton T-shirts and always cover my head with one of these for sleep. I found a silk scarf would just fall off.
I'd love to filter my water, but O can't afford to do so. Is there another way? Is bottlecwater better? Or is that just tape water too? I live in the UK.
I am in the same situation. I use once per week a scalp scrub, affordable one is from body shop, more expensive it’s from Christophe Robin. Also, a shampoo that helps with hard water, Loreal metal detox or Hello Klean hard water shampoo, I use it once a month
@and9137 didn't know did hard water shampoo, thanks for that.
Do you have a hair growth stimulating mixture suitable for naturally grey(quite white) hair not containing herbs that could stain one's silver colour?
How often should I being doing the ACV rinse? I was my hair 2-3 at week
Hi. You mentioned a link to a site for a good natural Henna dye. Am I just missing it? I’m not ready to embrace my graying hair but I have been on the hunt for a healthier option.
Here it is: shop.morroccomethod.com/collections/henna-hair-dye
@@KatherineSewing Thank you!
Where is the link for the henna dye products? I can't find it....
how long did it take you to grow your shoulder length hair to below chest length?
What do you think about Tar shampoo? Because I have a very dry scaly scalp but I am unsure to use it
Love your advice so different to most.
My dying hair journey is I have only died my hair once all over and once with two streaks in the front in my late teens in the late 90's.
I say if you can't get your hair colour in a bottle why die it. I cant find my colour directly in a bottle. As my strands are not an even colour. As if you colour your hair and hate colour you chose. You cant get it back with out chopping it off. If not in a bottle.
Colouring hair is fine for people who like to do that..
But lighten hair. When you die it lighter it will strip the colour out. Going from a dark colour brown (like you have in video) to blonde is silly. to much of a colour lightning. But the worst hair colour is to be is say is in the greys. As it strips out all the colour from your hair almost. This colour is for when it to naturally turns and most don't get grey at least until any time after 60 anyway.
I relay if ever use heat on my hair. As I don't think it is necessary, Uunless it takes all day to dry. But if must don't fully dry it. Will help out.
This trendy it is modern. Tight, the way you display your page. Gigantic show. We sharpen our tools and the edit skill so we grow after pandemic! What's Rec & Red? i just clicked it just now? haha. keep in touch!
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But blow drying hair on very low heat is actually healthier for the hair, because the hair is at its weakest when it's wet and drying it shortens the time it stays in this weak state
I do often blow dry my hair for these reasons, just with room temperature air ☺️
Only distilling will remove fluoride and chlorine
привет!аутебчраньшевыпадаливолосымильнокактыостановилавыпадениевалос?🙏
The pandemic Plandemic gave all of us a chance to review expensive and damaging hair management to return to more simple routines that are also more self accepting ❤
The term "literally" has been used three times and it hasn't even been five minutes of video.