Tropical Isle Living Strong Roots Red Pimento Hair Growth Oil 4oz - Natural Moisturizing Treatment for Itchy, Dry Scalp and Promote Hair Growth, Prevent Dundruffs with Jamaican Black Castor Oil

UPDATE 9/12/13: Official recived both my items, the castor oil and the red pimento oil! and I already started yesterday with my challenge when i recieved the pimento oil first. follow my journey here. [...]Hey everyone I just ordered this item recently on a Saturday which was 9/7/13. And I'm going to start off with a 5 star rating just for the hype. I am going to do a hair growth challenge, and I will be using this castor oil and I will be using their pimento oil. I am natural and have very kinky/coily hair ranging from 3's to the 4's. I my hair is a decent length...but shrinkage is a betch, but sometimes I love it. I just want my hair to be at my shoulders but curly with shrinkage and all. My hair grows on average 1/2 inch a month or a little over depending on protective styles. I notice that my hair does well when I keep my hair in twist under a wig haha. So I will be wearing wigs, for my challenge. I'm also going to try to come up with a routine for me to do and follow. I have never been on a regiment for my hair. I really like simple. But I also wanted to incorporate oils into my new regiment. Never done it before, but I think that will change the health of my hair in a good way.Routine:Wash hair every weekhot oil treatment(olive oil)deep conditioning/protein treatment(egg mixed with deep conditioner)Split my hair into sectionsApply castor/pimento oil to scalp.Detangle each sectionTwist each sectionPut wig cap on and wigThen repeat every weekThroughout the week I will be applying the castor/pimento oil to my scalp where I have the plaited sections from my twist every night and sleep with a silk bonnet.Length Checks: Will be every month. Right now my hair ranges to 9'-9 1/2' all over my head, but I will do official checks to have a clear starting point.Goals: Want softer/stronger/healthier hair, and I want to maximize hair growth. I want to have grown/retained 6 inches in 6 months. And that would be perfect for Spring break.I will be making future YouTube videos, and when I do will give the links. But you can also find me on instagram: AshleyNicoleCollins to see pictures of me and my wigs(protective styles)If you have any questions also you can contact me there. And I may make a separate instagram just for this challenge, and when/if I do I will let you guys know.

I have to say, this product is amazing. I’ve purchased three bottles over time so far and had spotty usage, because I’m inconsistent and lazy about my personal care routine. But seriously wow, because of my irregular usage it’s SO obvious how well this stuff works. I heard about this oil from a YouTube beauty guru forever ago who I don’t even remember the name of, but I was trying to revitalize my dry, easily breakable, frizzy curly hair. She recommended it as an overnight scalp treatment, so that’s how I tried it.The thing is I can’t say anything necessarily about the strength of my hair, I think because I don’t use it regularly enough, but it solved a different problem for me almost instantly that had been bothering me for years. Dandruff! And shedding! I have had flaky, itchy scalp for SO LONG and I’ve tried a bunch of different dandruff shampoos and the tar based ones that smell like asphalt…none of them worked.But this product literally makes my dandruff completely vanish after two treatments. AND I lose significantly less hair in the shower. I did some research on dandruff a while back and figured out why I believe that is, I never knew that dandruff and flaky scalp are two different things, and that actual dandruff is caused by an overgrowth of some type of fungus that lives on the scalp. While flaky scalp is generally caused by dry skin. This being the case, it makes perfect sense that an oil treatment would work wonders over a dandruff shampoo designed to kill a fungus I apparently don’t have an overgrowth of at all.I also shed hair EXCESSIVELY and notice a very significant lessening whenever I use this product, even after a single treatment, I’ll lose much less hair than I’m used to in my next shower. I’m attempting to get an actual schedule together for this product so I can be more consistent about using it…twice a week overnight treatments I think will be plenty. I haven’t tried this as an actual hair treatment but from other reviews my hair type would probably benefit from it.