Walking You Through My Wash Day Routine

Okay, so now I'm going to be showing to you what I do on the night before a wash day. So I'm gonna be showing to you my oil treatment routine. So first I'll add more of a high-end oil blend that promotes hair growth and scalp health just to my scalp. So I just part my hair, apply it right to the scalp, and then do a scalp massage. And then I'll use my big bottle of wholesale castor oil because I use so much of these oils. I'll either use castor oil or coconut oil or a combination of both. And I apply it generously to my hair. The reason I love castor oil especially is because it's so thick and viscose that it is really good for coating the hair and adding slip to help with the detangling process, especially since my hair is dry right now. So this is when I do the most thorough finger detangling session of the week. I really want to get as many knots out as possible before going in for the wash. So I, of course, let that sit overnight. And the next day it's time to wash. So here is the big container of Rassel clay that I buy. It's a pretty good price from the website I get it from. I can link that below for you. And I like my clay wash to be on the more liquidy side. When I first started, I made the mistake of making a clay wash that was too thick and it was hard to fully rinse out of my hair. It doesn't really need to be very thick at all in order to get the hair clean. Normally, my ideal recipe is using half aloe vera juice and half water. So about a cup of aloe vera juice and a cup of water. But in this case, my aloe vera juice has all run out. So I'm just going to be using all water. So it's about two cups of water to a third of a cup of the clay powder. But I will say that when my hair was shorter, I would only use a quarter cup of the clay powder. And then I like to add some essential oils in there. Just whatever I have on hand, really, that's good for hair. And then go in and mix that up until it's smooth and combined. And then I pour about half or a little less than half of this into one of those hair squeeze bottles with the applicator tip. And this is going to be the mixture that actually gets applied to my scalp while the rest of it is going to be to wash the lengths of my hair. And I like to add some peppermint oil into the one that's for my scalp because that's great for opening up the scalp pores and helping to cleanse. I also like to prepare an apple cider vinegar rinse. So I just mix a little apple cider vinegar with some water and that will be used at the very end of my wash routine. And then I actually like to wash my hair in four braids. I learned this from the online forum, The Long Hair Community. It's a great way to prevent tangles, keep the hair sectioned, and protect the lengths of your hair from getting overly cleansed and dried out while you're washing the scalp. So I've gotten my hair wet in the shower. Normally, of course, I would do this entire process in the shower, but for the sake of showing you guys, I'm back in my sewing room here demonstrating. So I use my squeeze bottle of the clay wash and apply it all in my scalp. The braid I did is very loose, so I'm able to access all the areas of my scalp this way. And I just massage that in really well. I'll actually usually use a shampoo brush at this point, but I couldn't find it for this video. And then for the lengths of my hair, I literally just take that braid and dunk it into my container of clay wash and squeeze it out. Once I've done this process to all the braids, I rinse out and then I actually repeat one more time just to make sure my hair is fully cleansed. Okay, so now I'm out of the shower. So I rinsed out my two times of clay washes, applied some very natural conditioner, and then did my apple cider vinegar rinse, and then finally rinsed that out with cold water. And you can see that considering that I didn't even run a comb through my hair, the curls are still looking pretty good and pretty defined. And I'm just showing to you that shampoo brush that I did use while I was in the shower just to help make sure that my scalp is getting fully cleansed. So then I use a microfiber towel to just dab the moisture out of my hair. And then I use my jojoba oil and I just apply a little bit of that to the ends to help seal in the moisture of my hair. If this was the dead of winter, I would actually mix this jojoba oil with a bit of shea butter and seal the ends with that. I especially like to focus the sealing oil on the back of my hair because that's where it's the most dry and the most prone to breakage. Excuse the fact that my face is so red. It's really from the apple cider vinegar rinse. It is really good at increasing blood circulation and it did that to my face, even though I didn't apply it to my face. So normally when my hair is shorter, I would use a microfiber hair turban to wrap my hair up, but my hair has gotten too long for it. So I just use a cotton t-shirt and wrap my hair up in it. I do also have a blow dryer and diffuser that I'll use occasionally with cold air, but I really wanted to show to you just the minimalist routine that I have been consistently following for years and how good of results it's gotten me. So I let that dry and this is the final result. It's really amazing to me how defined my curls look, even though I did not comb them out in the shower and I did not use a speck of styling product in this hair. This is just from the clay wash and the sealing oil and the conditioner and the apple cider vinegar rinse. And just showing you now how long my hair has gotten now. This is really amazing to me. It has never been this long in my life before. And I'm super pleased with how this routine has cared for and nurtured my hair through these years.