mleku on Nostr: i'm also growing mine long but i have the problem that it gets all oily and icky and ...
i'm also growing mine long but i have the problem that it gets all oily and icky and it's very thin and i'm pretty sure my hair has a relatively short average length and falls out too soon, but i feel it against my elbows when it's tied in a pigtail and i will find a way to make it stay nice almost all of the time instead of cycles of clean and greasy
been meaning to make some liquid tallow soap for this purpose, i'm pretty sure the magic trick is a really mild degrease/regrease process, but i don't want to deal with oil everywhere, and i think tallow soap will leave an ideal residue of which some part of it is the hard waxy stearic acid (why you can make tallow into candles, also cacao butter)
just been really lazy about it, got the potassium hydroxide and loads of tallow all ready to go, really just need to mix up the KOH with water and melt the tallow and put it in the blender for 10 minutes and then pour it into a big container with extra water and let it sit for a week or so... and i need some kind of suitable container to dispense it with also, probably will just repurpose some thing for it
been meaning to make some liquid tallow soap for this purpose, i'm pretty sure the magic trick is a really mild degrease/regrease process, but i don't want to deal with oil everywhere, and i think tallow soap will leave an ideal residue of which some part of it is the hard waxy stearic acid (why you can make tallow into candles, also cacao butter)
just been really lazy about it, got the potassium hydroxide and loads of tallow all ready to go, really just need to mix up the KOH with water and melt the tallow and put it in the blender for 10 minutes and then pour it into a big container with extra water and let it sit for a week or so... and i need some kind of suitable container to dispense it with also, probably will just repurpose some thing for it