Sleepless Travels Reloaded

This photo was taken at Inman Valley, South Australia. It was a beautiful day.

Gosh , my hair is feeling awsum these days!

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And this is not random, no?

Well, nothing wrong with randomness, as long as it’s about me (’_')

A couple of months ago my hair was going through a rough patch. It always used to be oily then it became really really dry at the ends. I piled on the conditioner and used a leave-in conditioner too, but nothing worked.

Then I had to resort to not washing hair everyday. I still rinsed with lots of hot water but maybe shampoo/condition or only condition every second, third day or so.

That didn’t help and to boot it still felt too oily on top. And so, etcetc, it goes on.

Then I started to use the LUSH Jungle solid conditioner…and my hair became sooo soft. I had my hair in a short pony tail one day and when it brushed against my neck it felt like a taklon brush.

So I credited the LUSH conditioner for that.
But after thinking about it for longer, I realised that the bad spells also coincided with my use of straightening tongs, hair dryers, and most importantly, the hair cutter person curling my hair thereby burning the ends to a crisp.

Just 1 use of the hairdryer makes the newer shorter hairs turn into pube hairs.
I think I must have very easily damageable hair.

Well I have since given my hair a decent trim and being in Adelaide I have no access to the hairdryer or straightening tongs languishing in my drawer in Melbourne. I have also disallowed the hairdresser from striaghtening my hair.

Having said that, I still think the Jungle conditioner is great, and would still highly recommend it! The only drawback is that the application is a bit fiddly. The recommended method is to swipe the conditioner directly onto the strands of hair. This is pretty easy for people with short straight hair, but people with long curly hair must have a nightmare with the stuff.

When you apply it, it doesn’t particularly feel like your hair has been conditioned. Same when you wash it off. But after it dries it doesn’t feel un-conditioned.

The product is really much more conditioning if you leave it on for longer. One day, after conditioning my hair I did my homemade extra virgin olive oil/sugar/honey/crushed vitamin C tablets body scrub. Then I brushed my teeth before washing the lot off. That must have been a good 10 minutes. And my hair was noticeably softer right after that! Even when wet!

One strange thing
The first time I used it, my hair stuuuuuuuuuuunk. Jungle has alot of essential oils that makes it a powerful smelling product. I think it is ylang ylang that stands out the most. Alot of people on makeupalley.com seem to like the smell, and an almost equal amount hate it. I fall into the latter category because it’s kind of like coconut and I dislike that sort of coconut scent generally. It was as if I poured a whole bottle of patchouli onto my hair or something.

After that I avoided it for awhile but the second time I used it…negligible smell! Now I seriously do not smell anything on my hair. And it’s not just because over time you get used to the smell of your products. I put it down to leaving the erstwhile “fresh” block out in the open. Actually it can’t even be that because my lot was in pieces and I didn’t bring the big block out of my airtight container until I had finished some smaller pieces and when I used the big block it wasn’t any stronger.

That warm fuzzy feeling
And don’t forget, because it’s solid, you won’t have nasty plastic bottles leftover (Garbage Island sort of scares me). I even brought along my own container so they didn’t have to use any wrapping paper!

FYI: Jungle ingredients
Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao) , Cetearyl Alcohol (&) Sodium Lauryl Sulfate , Propylene Glycol , Fresh Avocado Extract (Persea gratissima) , Glyceryl Stearate (&) PEG-100 Stearate , Cetearyl Alcohol , Stearic Acid , Perfume , Soya Lecithin , Fresh Figs (Ficus carica) , Fresh Bananas (Musa paradisiaca) , Fresh Passion Fruit (Passiflora edulis) , Fresh Kumquat (Fortunella japonica) , Cetrimonium Bromide , Ylang Ylang Oil (Cananga odorata) , Vetivert Oil (Vetiveria zizanoides) , Cypress Oil (Cupressus sempervirens) , Sandalwood Oil (Santalum album) , Chlorophyll , *Limonene , *Linalool
* Occurs naturally in essential oils.