MY EXPERIENCE: VATIKA NATURALS HOT OIL HAIR MASK



Ingredients: Aqua, Cetrimomium Chloride, Cetearyl Alcohol, Myristyl Alcohol, Propylene Glycol, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Prunus amygdalus dulcis (Almond) Oil, Lawsonia inermis (Henna) Extract, Parfum, Magnesium Nitrate, Magnesium Chloride, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Citric Acid, D&C Yellow No. 10 (CI 19140), FD&C Red No. 40, (CI 16035), D&C Blue No. 4 (CI 42090).

Directions: AFTER SHAMPOOING or NORMAL WASH. Apply cream on your hair. Massage your hair and scalp gently with your fingertips to ensure complete application on hair from root to tip. Leave on for 10-15 minutes. For best results keep hair wrapped in hot towel. Rinse off hair as usual.

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At some point, some of us who are on a hair journey towards long and healthy hair wonder how women from India get to grow their hair so long. I became one of those people and started looking for oils and hair products catered to them. I knew they incorporate a lot of natural oils in their hair care routine including coconut oil, but I was also curious to know if they use any ready-made products. I’ve always seen this deep conditioner at my local Walmart but never bothered to research it. One day I googled “Indian hair products” and the link for this product came up. I was glad to see olive and almond oil (favorites) in the ingredients’ list. I also have good experience with magnesium chloride in my drinks and was curious as to how this product would react to my hair. So naturally, next time I went to Walmart, I picked the jar up with no hesitation (I generally struggle to buy products for which there are little to no reviews on them online).



There is a tin foil over the opening of the jar but I had already removed it prior to taking this picture. It has a generic hair product smell, and it's not overpowering. It's very thick in consistency, so thick that the product won't even budge when I turn the jar upside down. It cost around $9.00 after taxes. To me it was a good deal since some 360-370 ml conditioner bottles were costing just as much or more (this one is 1kg, which is a little bit over 1,000 ml)

I’ve used it 3 times so far successfully to deep condition on dry hair. When applying the deep conditioner, I can feel the water from the product penetrating my strands. I leave it on for an hour, not more. Because I’ve left it on for two hours the first time I’ve tried it on wet hair, and I ended up with something like this:

Shedded hair at 2 weeks post relaxer after deep conditioning and detangling

But when I use it to deep condition on dry hair and I rinse it out, I shampoo and condition; my hair is left feeling soft, yet strong. I don’t even need to use a conditioner after I shampoo because my hair is already so smooth! Because of this, I also feel this product could be great to co-wash with as well. 

I've yet to try it again on wet hair, fearing my hair would shed as much as it did last time. But I have little shedding when used on dry hair. Nonetheless, I'd like to hear/read more positive experiences with this product from you if you have tried it before.

Until my next post, have a wonderful hair journey!


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