In my professional and personal opinion, "natural" hair care should never go to ridiculousness. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about the crazy "natural" things people do to their hair. I actually thought I was blogging about something. Just when I thought I touched on a topic and covered its bases, another interestingly ridiculous "natural" hair care phenomena had spewed from the mind of an individual into the homes, salons, and typed into the search bars of millions of computers world wide. What ridculous "natural" hair craze am I referring to? In the words of one my favorite hip hop groups, Stesasonic; "Brace yourself for the ultimate rare!"
The latest ridiculous "natural" hair care craze that is spreading like the Ebola virus is the use of Monistat Vaginal Cream. Yes, there is one person who is responsible for this ridiculous non medically proven ignorant concept and practice as they tout it as "natural' hair care. You are reading that sentence correctly. Monistat Vaginal Cream is being touted as a "natural" alternative stimulant that can promote hair growth. How? Well what I've read is that, due to the anti-fungal ingredient in Monistat called ketoconazole, it is supposed to help your hair grow. There is a theory that the Ketoconazole ingredient supposedly can act as an interceptor to a gene that lies deep down inside the walls of the follicle that causes hair to thin or not grow at all. The follicle is the tiny hole that hair grows from. In theory, the ketoconazole in turn lets some of the hair grow in pretty fast because it blocks those gene receptors in the follicle from receiving the signal to not grow. There is nothing "natural" about applying Monistat Vaginal Cream to your scalp to act as an interceptor to a gene that makes hair thin or not grow because the makers of Monistat Vaginal Cream has NOT said so. While it may not be natural, it is ridiculous.
But wait, there's more! Oh yes, my dear readers and fellow hair care junkies, there's more. The other ridiculous "natural" hair phenomena that is not cleaning hair is called; water wash. What is this, again, you ask? I don't know. But, to me, "water wash" is very close to a oxymoron. I mean water is not a verb. It is a noun. You know; a person, place or thing. Right? And isn't water a odorless, tastless clear liquid that is the basis of the fluids for all living ORGANISMS (microganisms are organisms). And isn't wash a verb that uses water and soap/detergent to clean? IJS (I'm just saying).
The latest ridiculous "natural" hair care craze that is spreading like the Ebola virus is the use of Monistat Vaginal Cream. Yes, there is one person who is responsible for this ridiculous non medically proven ignorant concept and practice as they tout it as "natural' hair care. You are reading that sentence correctly. Monistat Vaginal Cream is being touted as a "natural" alternative stimulant that can promote hair growth. How? Well what I've read is that, due to the anti-fungal ingredient in Monistat called ketoconazole, it is supposed to help your hair grow. There is a theory that the Ketoconazole ingredient supposedly can act as an interceptor to a gene that lies deep down inside the walls of the follicle that causes hair to thin or not grow at all. The follicle is the tiny hole that hair grows from. In theory, the ketoconazole in turn lets some of the hair grow in pretty fast because it blocks those gene receptors in the follicle from receiving the signal to not grow. There is nothing "natural" about applying Monistat Vaginal Cream to your scalp to act as an interceptor to a gene that makes hair thin or not grow because the makers of Monistat Vaginal Cream has NOT said so. While it may not be natural, it is ridiculous.
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| Monistat Vaginal Cream is suppose to block the thinning hair gene from receiving the message to shrink and thin or not grow. Yeah right. |
Now, don't go getting your hair into a bunch. According to what I watched on YOUTUBE, the "water wash" method is a simple technique of "washing" you hair with water with the intent to redistribute the sebum (scalp oil) oil from the scalp throughout your hair using water and hands only. NO COMB. Never mind the fact that your hand can absorb water and oil. Now, how is this "natural" redistributing of sebum oil works is weird science to me? The concept is being highly recommended by these ordinary people as an alternative for those who have sensitivities to shampoos, those who have textured hair but is low in density (number of hair fibers per cubic inch) and for those who want to maintain or improve the texture of their curly, kinky, wavy or Afro tresses. Now these people in these video; I don't know readers, but they are some dirty haired ladies instructing ordinarily sane clean haired women to do some insane stuff to their hair. Now that is not the word I really want to use, but I digress. Again washing implies the use of water and soap. So the term "water wash" makes me feel all foo foo frilly on the inside.
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| Something about this image reminds me of rinsing and not washing. |
Now in both cases, I must say my gut reaction was, "How ridiculous!" After my research, I am now yelling as loud as I can, "How ridiculous!" As a cosmetologist, my job's primary focus is not hairstyling, nail care and skin care. Instead, my primary job is public safety. The Ohio State Board of Cosmetology allows me "to do" hair, skin and nails as I please. Provided, I practice public saftey and sainitation is the midst of me working. So while these ordinary people on YOUTUBE are promoting this practice at home. The "water wash" increases your chances of not being able to enter a salon almost anywhere in the United States due to the critters that will automatically grow in your head or make you a breeding gound for all kinds of micro icky stuff that will make a going into a salon illegal. Can you say microorganism, bacteria, MRSA, staph, lice, scabies and so on? Every salon in America has "state" rules and guidelines for public safety and sanitation that we by law must adhere to in order to safely serve the public, work, and let you sit in the chairs at our salons. No licensed hair stylist can provide service to a person with live bugs on their persons (hair included). To do so violates public safety. So wash your hair and wash it good with soap and water.
With that, I will conclude this blog with two informative facts about using Monistat Vaginal Cream in any fashion on your scalp to grow your hair and using "water wash" only method to clean your hair. Both are natural and both do not work. The mere act of squeezing Monistat Vaginal Cream from the tube and rinsing your hair with water as you rub your hair is indeed natural. Make no mistake. However, if you really want your hair to grow, increase your blood supply to your hair bulb located inside your follicle that is on your scalp. You can do this via washing your scalp or a scalp massage. Ketoconazole has not been medically proven to affect any gene via topical application. So don't use it and if you are, stop,
If you want to preserve or improve the texture of your hair, you need to use soap and water. Lawd, people! Water is interestingly beneficial for you and your hair when you use it frequently properly. I am certainly no Water Treatment Specialist and I do not work for the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). If your curly, kinky, wavy or/and Afro texture is being compromised from the use of any kind of shampoo and conditioner, it is because you are not
using the right kind. You also are not using or is using the wrong kind of protein on your hair. Lastly, your hair could be coated from not being properly cleaned. Water washing will only make matters worse after extended use. How? At one point in my life, I was a "Soap Hating" kid. One summer I decided to water wash and not use soap when I bathed. You know getting in the tub, dipping the soap in the water and rinsing off. One night I was itching profusely. When my sister and cousins asked why was I scratching and itching so much, my mother walked passed and said, "Micororganisms." When they asked, "What's that?" She replied, "The cooties!" No one wanted to play with me for the rest of the summer and I and the "cootie" touch all that summer....lol
The meaning of ridiculousness is "causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable. Absurdly or unbelievably good, bad crazy, etc." Now, let's use it in a sentence. Mixing Monistat Vaginal Cream with hair cream to apply to your scalp for your hair to grow is ridiculous. And to wash it off using water wash method and call it natural hair care is ridiculousness!"
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| The Ohio State Board of Cosmetology, by law requires every hair, skin, nail and spa to post the Rules, Regulations and Law around PUBLIC SAFETY. |
With that, I will conclude this blog with two informative facts about using Monistat Vaginal Cream in any fashion on your scalp to grow your hair and using "water wash" only method to clean your hair. Both are natural and both do not work. The mere act of squeezing Monistat Vaginal Cream from the tube and rinsing your hair with water as you rub your hair is indeed natural. Make no mistake. However, if you really want your hair to grow, increase your blood supply to your hair bulb located inside your follicle that is on your scalp. You can do this via washing your scalp or a scalp massage. Ketoconazole has not been medically proven to affect any gene via topical application. So don't use it and if you are, stop,
If you want to preserve or improve the texture of your hair, you need to use soap and water. Lawd, people! Water is interestingly beneficial for you and your hair when you use it frequently properly. I am certainly no Water Treatment Specialist and I do not work for the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). If your curly, kinky, wavy or/and Afro texture is being compromised from the use of any kind of shampoo and conditioner, it is because you are not
using the right kind. You also are not using or is using the wrong kind of protein on your hair. Lastly, your hair could be coated from not being properly cleaned. Water washing will only make matters worse after extended use. How? At one point in my life, I was a "Soap Hating" kid. One summer I decided to water wash and not use soap when I bathed. You know getting in the tub, dipping the soap in the water and rinsing off. One night I was itching profusely. When my sister and cousins asked why was I scratching and itching so much, my mother walked passed and said, "Micororganisms." When they asked, "What's that?" She replied, "The cooties!" No one wanted to play with me for the rest of the summer and I and the "cootie" touch all that summer....lol
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| Cootie Science Humo |
The meaning of ridiculousness is "causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable. Absurdly or unbelievably good, bad crazy, etc." Now, let's use it in a sentence. Mixing Monistat Vaginal Cream with hair cream to apply to your scalp for your hair to grow is ridiculous. And to wash it off using water wash method and call it natural hair care is ridiculousness!"
