Last night, I decided to try a little experiment which didn’t turn out so well. I’ve been desperately wanting to use those lovely butters I bought from Anita Grant, but they’re not really meant for my hair type. Regardless, I thought I’d work a teeny bit of the Monoi de Tahiti into my damp hair after bathing. At first it seemed really nice - the butter melted in well and smelled absolutely gorgeous. But as it dried, I realised it was quite heavy and more than a little stringy and greasy. Eeeek!

After much furious brushing and confirmation from my husband that I looked like a wet dog, I decided to give it another thorough rinse. That still didn’t do the trick, but by then it was late and I needed to go to bed. This morning, I shampooed and used a vinegar rinse and it looks better again.

Moral of the story: no matter how much you like the look of a product that isn’t intended for your skin/hair type, no amount of wishful thinking will make it work. That said, I am going to find a use for these butters, and thus an excuse to buy more. Mwahahah!

UPDATE: I’m actually going to give this another try soon, as the cause seems to have been the shampoo I was using, not the butter. I didn’t realise this at first as when I did the repeat shampoo, the problem didn’t occur again - I must have rinsed it out more thoroughly that time. However, I used the same shampoo again last night, minus the butter, and the wet dog look is back! The shampoo in question is Akamuti’s Liquid Black Soap, which I posted my review of last night and have adjusted slightly. The problem is that it doesn’t lather well in hair, so I feel as though I’ve not put enough in and pile on loads more. I won’t be making that mistake again.

Price: £2.95 for 4.5g
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Link: http://anitagrant.com

Ingredients: Unrefined cocoa butter, organic coconut oil, golden jojoba oil, candelilla wax, organic castor oil, natural soya-derived vitamin e.
Organic clover honey (Original Lippy Pucker). Organic dark chocolate (Dark Chocolate Lippy Pucker).

This is one of those rare times I find a product and want to rave about it instantly. I wasn’t even aware of Anita Grant until three days ago, and I’ve already fallen in love with her products. Both varieties of this lip balm are simply gorgeous.
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Tags: anita grant, lip balm, lip butter, lips, review

A quick post to say my samples from Anita Grant arrived this morning, just as promised! I rushed out of bed to open the package and spent the next 20 minutes ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the contents. There’s no doubt I’m going to be putting in an order for some full-size products very soon.

One of the lip butters is now permanantly installed in my handbag and the other by my bed (I often wake in the night with dry lips). Although I’ve only used them for a few hours, I’m thinking of featuring them in my next review which I will put together shortly. In total, I bought the two lippys, some monoi de tahiti oil and butter, ylang-ylang and cedarwood butter, a camellia copaiba bath & body oil and a gorgeous coconut and rosewood dry oil. Fabulous stuff! 

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Price: £10.49 for 325ml
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Link: http://www.aubreyorganicsuk.co.uk

Ingredients: Deionized Water, Coconut Oil-Corn Oil Soap, Soap Bark Extract, Yucca Root Extract, Carrageenan, White Pine Bark Extract, Organic Lemon Peel Oil, Calaguala Extract, Cade Wood Essential Oil, Organic Evening Primrose Oil, Aubrey’s Preservative (Citrus Seed Extract, Vitamins A, C and E).

After many months of struggling with severe dandruff, and after researching a plethora of different products, I finally settled on this unusual shampoo for oily hair and scalp. It’s currently my most valued and reliable hair-care product.
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Tags: aubrey organics, review, shampoo

OK, this is going to seem a strange post in the middle of a skincare blog. When I had my old blog here, I wrote an entry on the fear of windmills and pylons. Basically, I’m still getting a lot of google hits to the (now deleted) article, so I’ve decided to repost it here so that people will still find the information they are after.
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