Africa Organics Hair Treatment Oil

The lovely ladies from Faithful to Nature sent me the Africa Organics Baobab Hair Treatment Oil a couple of weeks ago and I am completely in love with this product.

As you know I am on a quest to get this ‘mop kop’ looking good and I have been trying a few sulphate free shampoos (have a look at my posts HERE, HERE and HERE) and treatments to get my damaged and extremely dry hair looking good again.

Of course I was very excited when I received this oil and couldn’t wait to get home to try it. Like a little kid at Christmas I ripped open the parcel and already gave the product a wiff at the office. Heaven I tell you. Sweet and lovely.

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The oil comes in a tube with a very handy pump nozzle. I really like the packaging as I can dispense the amount I need and there’s no mess.

I was expecting a hair oil that mostly consists of silicones (as I’ve been seeing so many of them doing the rounds lately), but to my surprise this product is just oil and 100% of the total ingredients are from natural origin. The oils include Jojoba, Baobab and orange peel.

It can be applied generously as a treatment or you can apply a teensy bit after styling to combat frizzies and flyaways. I do both. What I really love about it is that it feels as though my hair absorbs the oil; it doesn’t just coat the hair. I often apply quite a bit of oil to my ends before going to bed and I don’t even have to cover my pillowcase as my hair seems to suck up every bit of goodness that it offers.

The condition of my hair has improved dramatically over the last couple of weeks, and this is due to going sulphate free and because of this wonder oil.

NOTE: I heard this morning that Africa Organics has changed the oil… I almost had heart failure as I need more!

BUT apparently the oil is now slightly different but BETTER. I can’t wait to try the new Africa Organics Marula Hair Treatment Oil. I already think the Baobab treatment is perfection, so I can’t wait to get my hands on the Marula treatment.

If you have dry, damaged or colour treated hair, or your hair just needs a bit of TLC during these harsh colder months, I highly recommend you try it.

African Organics Hair Treatment Oil retails for R85 for 50ml and you can buy it on line from Faithful to Nature.

xoxo

*Disclaimer: This product was sent to me for review purposes. I have not received compensation for this post and the opinions on the product are my own.

GrandeLash-md hits our shores

I recently spotted GrandeLash-md on Facebook and got very excited!

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I had a chat with Dr Doma and this is what she had to say:

‘Like so many things in life, a good idea comes from the smallest ideas. A dear friend of mine, Alicia Grande whom I have known for going on 15 years met a man who knew a person, who knew that persons cousin, who knew the cousins girlfriend, whose brother had a brilliant idea – AN EYELASH AND EYEBROW SERUM TO GROW LASHES AND BROWS.

Now, my friend, being naturally nosey and a ‘health and beauty expert with her own radio show’ could not resist the temptation of long, lush eyelashes of her own, no messy eyelash glue and flapping false eyelashes, no more lash extensions whilst losing half of her own in the process, so secretly every morning and every night, most faithfully she would apply the lash serum to the root of her lashes and the brow serum to her brows… until one night, her husband, said ‘Alicia, what have you been doing to your eyelashes, they look gorgeous’.

Now, my beautiful friend, always one for a challenge trademarked GRANDELASH-MD and GRANDE BROW and voila a Lashalicious Company was born.

Having connected after some years, Alicia suggested I bring GRANDELASH-MD and GRANDE BROW into South Africa.  My business partner and I, both tomboys with long legged shapely blondes’ inside us, somewhere took on the challenge and tried her kindly sent samples. I myself suffer from Hypothyroidism, therefore my brows are sparse (that’s being generous) and to see my lashes, one needed a microscope, so I must say I started using the products with great trepidation, but faithfully followed instructions and being just slightly over 30, used it twice daily. Two weeks after using the product I had a meeting to go to, I ‘put’ my face on and nearly fell over when my lashes left track marks on the inside of my glasses, my lashes had grown so much.

Erika, the bigger tomboy nearly speared herself in the eye when she saw the amount of mascara she needed to use on her new lashes and so our GRANDE journey began. Two average, workalot, oddball mums with lashes to die for.

My medical background had to be tucked away whilst I showed off my ever growing lashes and Erika causes a breeze batting her eyelashes wherever she goes.  FINALLY – A PRODUCT THAT DID WHAT IT SAID THAT IT DID!!!!! And all natural. So of course, always up for a challenge we were granted the Agency for Africa and voila… We have arrived – watch for the little lash mobile doin the rounds in the northern suburbs.’

I received my GrandeLash-md yesterday and I can’t wait to see the results. Watch this space!

If you want to read up a bit more or see before and after’s, please have a look at the GrandeLash-md SA Facebook page or check out the GrandeLash-md website.

GrandeLash-md retails for R775 for a 2-3 month supply.

Do you want long, fluttery lashes to? Then have a look at my next post.

xoxo