Hi Zara I recently made your modified sulfur8 has my hair has grown 1.5 inches in a week and my broken nape is finally growing back 🙃 Thanks so much, keep on informing us naturals
Girl😳 I’m so gonna go back on these greases. I switched to an “all natural” routine and my lush head of hair is suddenly thinning by the edges while my mother in her late fifties still has hers🤨 honestly she knew the genetics of our hair best
Stephanie Mazvita yeah greases are definitely gonna be part of my routine . There couple of things that made me retain length.I was drinking at least 1L of water a day and taking hair , nail and skin supplements , I also took jelly cubes as it a cheaper alternative to collagen supplements but works in the same way. Also I would put my hair in a bun and not take it out or wash if for 2 weeks .Hope this helps
My dad used pink hair lotion and water on my hair back in the 80's. My hair never broke until I stopped using it and my hair became so dry. I'm 39 years old, I'm going to start using it again
Lol i just went back to pink oil as well and my hair loved it lol. It actually works so much better then alot of products out now. I say this because alot of theae butter creams and stuff is just too heavy on my hair, just too mucb ingredients. Pink oil its just simple veyr light and gets the job done.
You're speaking truth about grease and mineral oil. I keep telling people the following that think grease can cause cancer: "If grease causes cancer, then we would all have been dead long before now. Like, when we were little girls." My mama used mineral oil on myself and my siblings from birth up until we could apply our own lotion and we all have no wrinkles and beautiful skin to this day. She also used grease and a spray bottle with water on my sister & I and our hair was moisturized, healthy & long. These people forget where they came from and set themselves up to fail. Grease and mineral oil is life.
I stopped using grease when I went natural but I’ll never say grease doesn’t work. My moms has achieved waist length hair (and longer) more than 5 times only using grease and water. Yes
Alexis A yes my mom applied Grease directly to her scalp and massages it and THE GROWTH 😱😱😱😱 it’s only been two weeks and wow. I’m definitely joining her
I stopped listening to alot of the early natural "specialists" some time ago. I went back to grease like magic and do grow grease and my hair feels alot better now. I'm going back to the old school products I used when younger.
Ladies...We all need to listen to Ms. Zara. She knows what she speaks. If we would just sit back, close our eyes and reflect back on what our granny and mother's used to put on our hair when we were younger, we would see that what Ms. Zara is speaking of is what our ancestors used. Think of your hair and how beautiful it felt and looked when they finished our hair. GREASE AND WATER was their concoction. Petroleum is natural and is found in the Earth. It's structure is TOO LARGE to clog our pores yet PERFECT as a sealant for length retention. Mineral oil is derived from petroleum. We use mineral oil EVERYDAY, ex: baby oil, Vaseline when we moisturize our skin. If it doesn't clog our skin when we moisturize but rather keeps the moisture in then realistically it WILL NOT clog our scalp. Ladies grease, petroleum, mineral oil is not our enemy. These products actually will help us all in retaining the moisture that our natural hair so desperately need. Now remember when we were younger, when grease was used, our hair was probably relaxed so moisture stayed in longer but not that we are natural then it just takes more effort to keep in the moisture because our hair is not chemically altered. Sometimes we try to fix something that was never really broken. #onmywayBACKtowaistlengthhair #grease4life
The sooner black women realize that we cannot use the same product as the next person the better chance they will have at length retention. I started making my own leave in and shampoo. She is right about soap not sure what kind she uses but I make my shampoo out of pure black African soap and that works for my hair.
@@deannalove9073 I agree so much! Some women use certain things because it's a 'natural hair trend' or "So and so used this and it worked for them,so it'll work for me."
I had bought into the anti-grease rhetoric since I started my natural journey several years ago. Yesterday, I got so tired of my dry hair I broke down and put some grease on it. What a difference! So soft, so moisturized even a day later. I’m pro-grease for life.
Hi i have a tip for your low porosity hair, i came up with it myself but i seen a youtuber with it recently after you wash your hair, and apply your warm water + leave in conditioner or cream, put on a shower cap, as if you’re deep conditioning, the leave in - cream will have time to sink in and fully penetrate your hair. i keep my cap on for 10 mins- 30 mins to even an hour sometimes, before i seal everything with my hair grease. maximum moisture, tons of softness, long lasting moisture and manageability. i especially do this before a protective style, i go through this process twice (day one day two)and then i section off my hair and put in my protective style, after 7 weeks my hair is still soft and moisturized, im a high porosity girl but my sister and mom both have veeeery shiny low porosity hair (it takes super long before their hair starts absorbing water) and it works for them as well.
I just started using Luster's Pink again. Haven't used it for over 10 years of being natural. But wow! I have naturally high porosity hair & mineral oil is great at keeping the moisture in for waaaaaaayyyy longer than my plant oil mixtures. I just keep it off my scalp since I like to using other treatments there. But my hair is super easy to detangle & super moisturized at a level shea butter just cannot do. Excellent sealant for my fragile ends! 👍
I tried grease and water on my hair, and wowwwww, my hair loves it, sooo soft and the first time in my life my 4c hair retained moisture for 2 days now and going to the third day without adding more, I can't just get my hands of my hair, am so excited. Going to use this for ever.
I plan on going back to using motions once I wittle down my stash. I'm almost 60 and bought into that "natural" stuff for about 8 years. I now oil my scalp with sulfur 8 and top all those "natural" products with blue magic to seal in the moisture. My hair is thicker and longer than it's been in years. Thanks for reminding me what used to work.
Can we see more hands on videos plllleeeaaassee😩🙏 like wash days? Deep conditioning videos? Demo on how you moisturize and seal? How you braid your hair under wigs? Etc
Can you do a video on your favorite deep conditioners that contain these “nasty” ingredients?? I love this video so much! Im decluttering my hair products and notice all of the natural hair products do the same thing and dries your hair out within hours. I often noticed most of these brand owners hair are short, often average looking, and nothing spectacular like their product says. Im over consumerism and product reviews. Im taking it back to the basics, water, grease, shampoo, and conditioner. No need to have 80 stylers and 50 curling cremes!
I agree. When I started my journey, I used a lot of natural products that didn’t work. Now I use grease and my hair is retaining length. Also, the owners of Mane Choice and Mielle have long hair.
I use aussie moist 4 everything, cowash deep condition leave in. "Green beauty channel" made a video saying " deep conditioner " titles is marketing. Herbs in products doesnt do anything 2 hair bc it's dead. Just add olive oil or coconut oil 2 a conditioner with good slip.
I would stay away from mineral oil as a moisturiser because I used L’Oréal live in with mineral oil and my hair was rock hard. I could immediately identify that. May be as a sealant but I use silicones in everything. That works better for me. I agree @natural is better. That’s a lie. I agree with you. Changed my deep conditioner to one that isn’t 98% organic and it was a time and life saver. In all I agree with you. People should just try everything and eliminate it themselves and stop listening to people.
I love how informative you are. You are the reason I started my hair grease journey again lol. Thank you so much for being the beautiful person you are.
I have seborrheic dermatitis. If I slather my scalp and hair in plant oils, all hell breaks loose. 🥴 The only plant oils that don’t do me dirty are squalane and caprylic/MCT which is highly processed coconut derived. Mineral oil is the cheapest option. Thanks for spreading this information!
Kieonna S I’ve been using The body shop ginger shampoo and conditioner, kinky curly knot today leave in mixed with aloe juice and baby oil, and sulfur 8 on my scalp (my sebderm is the DRY flaky kind not the oily kind). I have a low haircut so everything gets on my scalp now. My scalp and hair also tolerate aquaphor (weird I know) but that’s where I’m at right now😅 all of the medicated shampoos even the As I am Anti Itch cowash dry my scalp out horribly and makes it worse. Might work for you if you have the oily type of sebderm, though!
@@rachelfrombefore i suffer from the same issue. Do you think if i just dont apply the oil directly to my scalp, and only the hair, it will help so i dont have to use grease?
@@josephine3122 I think so! As long as the oil doesn’t get directly on your scalp you should be fine. When I had hair lol, it never caused scalp issues when I used oil on the length and ends of my hair.
Started using royal crown grease bc of u. And v05. I always loved silicones. I recently read mineral oil is good for hair. I hate all the $ I wasted through out this journey
As a kid my mom used blue magic and hair food grease in my hair. My hair was super long and all she used was that cup of water and grease (my hair was natural). So if it worked for all of us as a kid why now it's bad for our hair I am so confused. I still use grease not as often as I should.
Naturally_Locd_Chetta I think it’s because when we were kids our hair was constantly in braids (protective styles). But now we manipulate it when we do styles.
Jamie Gatson having braids is a protective style. It causes manipulation for one period of time. The time in which they are in is LONGER which makes them a protective style... lol
That's why I don't understand now when people straighten their hair they say the sometimes they get heat damage! I got my hair straightened as child every two weeks and I never got heat damage and all my mother used was pressing oil or Royal crown grease!
This is such a timely video, you really opened the door for a lot of people about Mineral Oils and you cleared up some misconceptions!!!!! Thank you for this!!!!
Great video! I returned to grease about four years ago for my scalp and placing it on my hair a few months ago as a leave in conditioner made such a positive change in my hair. My hair loves old school products (BB, Palmer’s, Infusium 23), and Queen Helene’s Super cholesterol is a great pre poo! I tried the more expensive ‘natural’ products that didn’t do much except fail to moisturize my hair / cause break outs, or stop working after awhile. 😎💃🏽❤️
You gave me the push I needed to go back to grease after years of not being able to retain moisture. I had the idea floating in my head for 1yr and a half; but was purposefully putting it off. Just fearful it would block moisture and make my hair a wreck (even though it didn’t when my mom was doing my hair lol)...Big f’ing myth as you pointed out in your video. My hair holds moisture so well now and even when I re-moisturize after having applied grease, my hair holds on to it and keeps it for days. It’s like it heals my strands, some how...I was shocked. This definitely was the missing link. WAY less breakage omg. Strands feel stronger, smoother, hydrated; and look and feel thicker!
My mom would use wild root and pink hair lotion on the very ends of mine and my sister's hair and it kept it long, thick and healthy. We also used dabur amla oil and henna paks from the middle eastern store since we were muslim. The main ingredient for dabur hair oil is liquid paraffin. I use petroleum based products on my skin every day and we use Petroleum and dimethicone lotions in the hospital because they are inert and are some of the safest products for fragile and compromised skin. I would say to just keep them off of your scalp because they can cause sweat and oil to become trapped against your scalp and cause the hair follicle to become clogged and damaged.
They say everything cause cancer don't do this don't eat this don't do anything i think is more important to see what we eat than what we put in our hair that's dead well I went back to hair grease cause all these so call natural hair products left my hair dryer and breaking thank u 4sharing💜
I bought my childhood Blue Magic grease the blue color and man I understand why my mom said it made my hair grow nothing and I mean has been keeping moisture so I decided to try going back to it and sure enough my hair hasn’t been screaming at me for some water at all.
What I love about your grease videos Efik is that you base them on actual science/facts. A lot of natural hair RU-vidrs say that mineral oil/grease/petrolatum is bad, can give one cancer, etc. when there's literally no proof that it's as extremely harmful as they say. It doesn't make sense because these products would not be on the market, or would have long been off the market, and our loved ones would have long been gone if that was the case! The proof is how our hair has responded to grease for generations!! Not that it has to be or is for everyone, but overexaggerating things that aren't true is just wrong. Anyway, my hair has never responded well to liquid grease like Pink Moisturizer, like that one especially leaves a weird film on my hair that I don't like and it weights it down and makes it look dull, BUT not gonna lie, the smell of it is nostalgic! 🥰
Dabur Amla Oil (the one all the Indian girls on RU-vid are using to do a heavy oiling) is primarily mineral oil and I use it as a sealant. I had initially stopped, as so many people said mineral oil is bad for hair. But it does a great job of sealing moisture into my type four hair so I went back to it lol. Relieved to see this video vindicating my experience!😅😅😅
Marci b hi i am from india ,my mom always applied dabur amla in my hair when I was a kid and believe me it is very good oil it makes hair shiny ,silky,and long .my hair are very long when I was young and nothing happened to my hair ,as now everyone is saying that mineral is bad for hair don't use but I think it is not true because it had done no harm to my hair ,even my sister in law use dabur amla for her kids and their hair are also very long and thick
You are so right....I use Blue Magic Indian Hemp or Kuzi Indian Hemp grease. I tried the oils for a very short time, did nothing for my hair.Grease is my go to sealant and I also use Pink Oil Lotion.
I’ve never tried Motions before and Luster’s Pink...last time I used that I was a kid. I didn’t care for the smell but I’ve been saying I wanted to try it again. Blue Magic and Fro Butter have been my go to sealers.
I am glad that you bought up how oils did not hold the moisture in your hair as well as the grease. That was a big issue I was having when using "natural" products and since my hair seemed to be in a constant state of dryness, I suffered from constant breakage and splitting. It was an endless cycle of trying to add moisture back into my hair on a daily or every other day basis and it felt the way it looked, dry asf. Edges was all jacked up and my scalp was an itchy mess. Because I would have to do those things on an daily basis, I would have to wash my hair more often which also leads to dryness. Sometimes it itched so bad I thought I had a colony of fleas living in there and just couldn't see them. Since going back to using grease over the winter, I've had 0 issues with itchy scalp, mass breakage and split ends. My edges have filled in nicely and most of all I don't have to be in my hair daily. I can get through a whole 7 days before having to add moisture back into my hair and restyle, and products last me a lot longer. My hair also thickened up which is a plus and I equate that to me not having to be in it that often and less dryness which is allowing those broken hairs to grow out, and less split ends in with fairy knots.
I was scared to try Sulfur 8 since it has both petrolatum and mineral oil. But my scalp has been bothering me and all "natural" products have not helped 😒
i've used baby oil to detangle once before shampooing. I was wondering if it was going to damage my hair but because of the stigma, I guess. It saved me no lie, my hair was TANGLED and i had not product.
I just uploaded a video on my channel of what I use on my hair. Not sure if any of the products have mineral oil in them but my diy hair sealant definitely has petroleum jelly and shea butter. I'm from 🇹🇹 so the heavy duty products are necessary for me to combat the drying effects of the sun/heat.
Love the message and tips, subbed for the 80's synth opening and vibes❣️❣️❣️❣️❤️. I started using baby oil and noticed by chance my hair stays moisturised for days!! . I mousturise it well before sealing it with baby oil. I also use it on my face at night after applying my moisturer and face treatments...acne prone and I get really smooth and less oily during the day. Go figure.
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My perspective has changed cause I’m all about that plant life but what you say makes sense!!!! Time to go try that Amal oil containing mineral oil 😂😂it makes hair thrive!!!
Thorough cleansing and moisturizing are key for using synthetic sealants. A lot of this information came from the Curly Nikki/Curly Girl Method era of natural hair. We were just trying to get it right. Honestly, we just didn't know how to clean our strands. When it comes to synthetics, my hair *loves* grease but hardens and dries with mineral oil lotions. It's like the product is solidify on my hair. It's a no for me.
Very informative as usual, I just bought lusters pink moisturiser lotion which I use to use years ago as a little girl. It never did me wrong back then so I am hoping that I will feel the same way about it now, unfortunately the natural hair community made me think twice about using these products again because of the ingredients, but all I could remember was, my hair flourished when using it 🤔🤷🏽♀️ So I am very curious to see what happens 🤞🏽 Thankyou for your video💙
I heard that mineral oil/petroleum stays on the hair shaft and you cannot moisturize your hair after using them. Me: spray my leave in conditioner mic with water and apply grease on my cornwors every day. My hair soaks it up and is defined💙 with moisture!
Are you Familiar with another RU-vidr named Nezi Napps? She's a big avid user of grease(Mainly Blue Magic Family) and her hair is absolutely beautiful as well....It would be awesome if you two collaborated!
Although I haven't used them yet, I purchased Blue Magic, Ultra Sheen Original Formula Conditioner & Hair Dress, and some other grease. These are a couple that was used on my hair coming up, which kept my hair moisturized. I'm tied of spending so much money on these natural haircare lines. When I'm not wearing a wash-n-go, I'll start using grease. I was gonna start incorporating onion treatments but, I suppose I can just use sulfur 8. Thanks for sharing! Peace and Blessings!🙏🏾❤️
Scurl products works wonders for me. The only thing I noticed is that I get dandruff. So I stopped using it bc I didn't know if "mineral oil" was the culprit. But I think I will return.
Liquid grease grew my hair full 6 inches within less than a year of my big chop . I cut my hair in lower 6 then by upper six my hair was in a high puff. I use to use wave nueva triple condition moisturizer but they changed the line and I couldn’t find it again
Ive used Ultra Sheen, DooGro, KeraCare YO5 grease products in the past. I'm still using Kera Care and I may get African Pride hair grease in the future. I have Sulfur 8 somewhere.When found I'll use ir.
As a little girl my hair was really long, like the center of my back long when braided. So long to the point my classmates thought I was wearing a wig. What did that? When my mum styled my hair she used johnsons baby lotion, water and grease. Now I'm sitting here looking at all these Natural hair videos like lawd have mercy
Not to mention, we ALL grew up on baby oil. Still use it today on our babies. But all of a sudden, it's "poison" for grown women's hair, many of whom used strong chemical relaxers at one point without question or hesitation? C'mon dawg 😅
Hey Zara,i love your content. 💙💙💙 I have been natural 4.5years and my hair is armpit length. From when I started I have always used Dark and Lovely lotion and Motions and to be honest I have had no complaints whatsoever. Matter of fact I just incorporated Blue Magic grease to my regimen, thanks to you 😊😊😊 and my hair us just thriving. What I noticed is that my split ends has drastically reduced and as a lazy natural, my hair stays super soft and moisturized between wash days. I have never really listened to the RU-vid Natural Hair Community anyway so 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
