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Rose water benefits your body in a number of ways. Everyone knows rose water is great for your face, but did you know that it can also be used as a mouthwash, eye wash, hair moisturizer, for flavoring drinks and food. The uses are numerous. The following is courtesy of guide2herbalremedies.com "Numerous rose water benefits include antibacterial, soothing, healing and antiseptic properties. It is very rich in flavonoids and vitamins, including A, C, D, E and B3. That is why if taken in the form of a therapeutic tea, it can help to enrich our body with useful nutrients and minerals, as well as lower the risks of bladder infections and heart disease, relieve digestive problems and nervous tension, relieve eye irritation and dental pains caused by paradontosis, and so on. But mainly, rose water benefits are used to treat skin infections and this natural product is an important agent for many skin care techniques. It has excellent soothing effects, can improve the condition of dry ...

Hello Ladies  Are you DC'ing without using steam/moist heat? Do you have a bonnet dryer? Well, drum roll please, use your bonnet dryer as a heating cap. Instead of rushing out to give Sally's Beauty Supply more of your hard earned cash try the steps below first. Great results can be achieved just as easily with a couple of handy household items and if you already own a hooded dryer , a steam treatment is well within your reach without breaking the bank!  What you will need: A bowl full of hot water (not boiling) 2 plastic caps or plastic bags 0  A hooded/bonnet dryer Prepare your hair first by washing and applying the conditioner or hair treatment. Soak both face cloths in the hot water. Wring some of the water out of the first face cloth. The cloth should be wet but not soaking. Place the cloth over your hair and immediately cover with one of the plastic caps/plastic bags. Wring the second face cloth and apply this over the plastic bag already on your head ...

Hey curly girlies, treat yourself to 40% savings at Carol's Daughter  using promo code SAVE40 . This code is only good until midnite tonite so don't miss out!! There are a few restrictions, good for ground shipping only and excludes gift cards and memberships. ENJOY!! Code does not apply to Amazon pricing. To shop Amazon.com, click on images below.

Every now and then, I feel the need to have long hair or straight hair, or long curly hair. When this undeniable feeling creeps into my bones, I go to my trusty hair pieces. Wigs, Falls, Hats, Pieces, or whatever you may call them, they all serve a purpose, to make you look like eye candy!! Let's face it, not everyone likes the natural look. I only do this on special occasions, when I feel my natural may not be appropriate. That feeling is coming less often and the  last time I did wear one my boyfriend says "Oh, I wanted  you to wear it curly". Can't win either way!! How often do you don your piece?

Love accessorizing? Love natural or ethnic looking jewelry? What about handmade, home made products? Take a look at the new Shop page. It lists just a few online stores to fulfill your need to look fly!! This page will be updated often with new places to spend your hard earned cash!! The items below can be purchased at the online store Afriquelachic.com ENJOY!!

While out shopping for my daughters 10th birthday, a lady stopped me in Walmart to tell me that my hair was beautiful. What? Me? Mine?!? I was walking down the refrigereated aisle in Walmart with my white boyfriend and mixed 3yr old son and a random lady walking behind us, talking on her cell phone, stopped mid conversation to tell me that MY hair was beautiful. She then went on to ask me what I put in it and told me it looked good on me. The funny thing about it is that I was looking at her hair because she had a TWA that was sharp!! I don't take compliments well so I just said "Thanks" and went on with my business like it never even happened even though I was feeling good inside. This is about how my hair looked on that particular day. I get more compliments now that I am natural then I ever did when it was relaxed or in micro braids or kinky twists. Do you ever get compliments on your hair? How do you take it?

We've all heard of the fantastic results that this treatment can yield. I have not actually had the pleasure of making this concoction on its own, however, I sort of made it via the max hydration method. I personally, did not reach max hydration and gave up. It was too time consuming, but that's another post for another season. With that being said, I published this post 5 years ago and am just now revisiting it, checking links, making sure the images appear, etc. I tried checking out soulistic87 on eHow.com but it seems this poster is no longer active on this site. In May of this year, 2015 that is, not the year 2000, I thought I was ready for a new hair journey. Microlocks, braidlocks, jennylocks (that's what I've been calling them),  or whatever you want to call them. I took an entire week braiding my hair into these tiny braids, hoping it would deter me from taking them down in the near future. I was wrong, painfully wrong. I will now spend more time rem...

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This is pretty much a conditioning treatment, didn't do much for my hair though. Well I only tried it once, so maybe I'll give a another try. Decide for yourselves. This is taken directly from the website listed below. http://www.blackhairinformation.com/...black_hair.htm The Coconut And Lime Treatment For Natural Black Hair Discover this technique of temporarily straightening natural hair with no damage to the hair structure If you have natural black hair chances are that you are already in love with your texture and wouldn’t change it for the world. As well it should be! But like anyone else, you don’t mind the occasional bout of ‘the grass is greener on the other side’ and would like to change your look temporarily. If you have natural very curly/kinky hair, particularly 4a/b hair types, you will appreciate that it will take more heat to get ‘relaxer straight’ results when you flat iron your hair. The downfall of using too much heat on your hair is that it may d...

Ultra Moisturizing Conditioner 1/4 cup 100% vegetable glycerin 3/4 cup organic aloe vera juice Cantu Shea Butter leave-in or EV Coconut oil Mix the two liquids together, add the leave-in or coconut oil, mix well. Apply to clean, deep conditioned, detangled hair. Put on a shower cap and leave in for 1 hour or more then rinse. Store remainder in the refrigerator up to 3 days.

Why is it that a lot of black women can't let go of the straight look? I have had a number of women come up to me and say that they want to go natural, but they just can't do it. There is nothing hard about being natural, well except the moisture thing and once that is figured out it's easy breezy baby! I love everything about my natural hair, the ease, the carefree- ness !! Most of all that if I want it straight there's always heat for that. I don't have to commit to the chemicals nor the daily styling. I can swim when I want, get caught in the rain, hell, I might even break a sweat and go to the gym one of these days. Just do it, just go natural ladies!! Chemical Me Natural Me

In continuing on my series of "natural relaxers" I found this gem which goes by the name of Natural-Laxer. I have tried the N atural-laxer from BAKA on three separate occasions now. To be truthful, I like it!! It is a bit tedious and messy, but I think it's worth it to loosen the coils sans chemical treatments. Its also pricey at $14 for 2 ounces but no  which is more than your traditional high priced chemical relaxer, that no one wants anymore because we all joining # TEAMNATURAL . Now if you do some research on this product you will probably find out that baka is Japanese for the word "fool" and anything else that falls in that line. After all, we look a little foolish trying to change how GOD made us, all perfect and everything!! I purchased this product from http://www.treasuredlocks.com/  you can also find it on their website  and on Amazon.com . Down below you can find other products by Baka for maintenance. I  have used it with and without the rosew...