More Mud Wash Results

Some more things I noticed about the mud shampoo. Note that I did not deep condition all week. I wasn't doing anything to my hair except moisturize and seal once. Bad I know but I've been on strike. I've just had it in twists and a head tie all week. Plus I wanted to see how my hair would behave with a mud shampoo and no deep condition. I've gotten away with not deep conditioning after washing with castile soap and my hair behaved pretty decent. However it was different with the mud shampoo. So here goes:-

-hair felt cleaner but not stripped on was day
-but over the next few days it felt drier even when I moisturized and sealed
-I think it stretched my curls
-I noticed that I hardly had single strand knots(I think because of the aloe vera juice)

I'm still trying to figure out a regimen now that I'm natural but I want to incorporate this in there somewhere. My hair is about 10 inches long but I think I have 1 inch of damaged ends. I want to go into protective styling for the next 3 months though because I NEED to make it to armpit length ASAP. I miss my length.

Product Review: Grape Seed Oil

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I've recently started looking for alternative moisturizing products because I feel like the commercial stuff isn't cutting it anymore for my oily/combination/who knows? skin. It's always been in the back of my mind but I was inspired by Moptopmaven to try more natural alternatives. She's covered oil cleansing which opened up possibilities of me exploring that and finding a non-commercial moisturizer. After much research I came up with jojoba and grape seed oils for moisturizing as I didn't have the guts to try oil cleansing.

I tried jojoba and while it was light it was still too heavy for my skin and clogged my pores. I later tried grape seed oil and have been using it for a few months. I can say that I really like it so far. It feels very light and silky, and absorbed very quickly, way faster than the jojoba. I also don't have an oily look to my face. I only used two drops so based on this a $4 bottle of this oil should last a mighty long time if it's only used for face. I use this regularly(about 6 months) and it doesn't clog my pores as my face feels great right now (hope this keeps up), I'd like to reap the benefits of the essential fatty acids.

What oils do you use for moisturizing? Are there any other natural alternatives to commercial products that you use besides moisturizing products? Please share.