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OK today I decided to go whole hog and use my own hand made hot oil, then shampoo, then rinse.

To start easy with the hot oil I simply poured some olive oil into a measuring cup, stuck it in the microwave for 20 seconds, and then brought it upstairs with me. It worked fine! It was maybe a little more "tacky" then commercial hot oils, a little less "silky". It's hard to describe things like this. But it coated well, washed off well, and is giving my hair a nice shine.

I have coconut oil here too to play with, and I hear that jojoba oil is also good so I'm ordering some of that. I'll let you know what I think the differences are.

Does anyone else use hot oil at all - either commercial or hand-made?

I use a commercial silk oil blend. It is a hair oil that has silk protein and miceo ground ceramic. I love the combination and the cationic covalent bonding that happens with silk protein, ceramic and hair. Adds natural shine, strength, and softness all in one.

I used to use hot oil when I had long hair.

Even though my hair was not "dry", it got dried out on the ends from coloring & blow-drying.

Hmmmm, I've been doing research into silk protein. Apparently it is primarily a coater, so it forms a "layer" over each hair which doesn't wash away by the subsequent shampoo step. Which would make sense It appears then the next time you use the silk protein it makes another layer, and so on. So I would need to research how to "strip" those layers occasionally to keep my hair clean and fresh.

The cationic part is the adhesion system, simply that it's positive charged so it offsets static (negative) charges. So that part seems easy!

I'll get myself some silk protein base and try adding that into some of my hot oils, and see what happens after a few days vs using straight hot oil! Thanks for the idea!

very much so.. the cationic covalent bonding is the pos charge oil to the neg charge hair ;0)

It is also used in treating skin disorders and conditions with light and electro therapy

I want to clarify that I do like the idea of silk protein! I ordered some and will be trying it out. I wasn't sure if my message sounded a bit critical, I didn't mean for it to. In fact, the oil I was using was also a "coater". When I used it my hair was almost wet looking all day long (like greasy/wet) and even the next day when I just used a shampoo and rinse it was still greasy. It was only the third day when I used a "store" shampoo that I got all the oil off.

So oil is a coater too. So I have to figure out how to use little enough that it doesn't slime the hair, but enough that it helps the hair. And also, I do think for oil and silk protein that every X days there should be a clarifying step that clears it all off the hair so there isn't build up and starts fresh. So I need to research that.

I also want to say that my head and skin all feel AWESOME while I'm using these natural products so it's well worth it even while I figure out the ratios and such.

Hot Oil Treatment with Olive oil-Honey. All you need is 2 Tbsp. olive oil and 1 Tbsp. honey. Mix and warm it.Apply from scalp to hair. Twist hair with a warm towel. After 20 min. wash hair and shampoo.

Sophie - I used olive oil the last time and it was nice but heavy. I'd worry that it would be even heavier / stickier with honey in it! I think I need to add something into it to lighten it up

OK in the spirit of "being open to new ideas" I did try the olive oil and honey idea. I did NOT leave it on for 20 minutes. I have found at least with my hair that leaving it on for more than 5 minutes doesn't help at all. The hair by that point has absorbed all it's going to absorb and the rest of the time is a waste. I'm not sure that I believe any time would benefit from more than 5 minutes of sitting in oil, but I would have to do tests with friends to show that. A hair strand is only so thick, and oil only takes so long to soak into it. I can say definitively that for my hair, it has done all it's going to do by 5 minutes.

Just as last time, my hair was oily and gross looking afterward. My boyfriend commented that it looked greasy like it hadn't been washed in a week. So I definitely feel that this is too heavy a formula and am going to work on lighter solutions.