Sealing w/ Sweet Almond Oil ?

I haven't been consistent with sealing and my hair is getting a little drier faster during the week than normal. I've used shea and olive oil in the past but I want to use something lighter.
Do any of you high porosity curlies have any opinions on this oil?
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Do any of you high porosity curlies have any opinions on this oil?
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Curl Routine
Co: As I am Coconut CoWash,VO5 Claifying Conditioner
DC: Macadamia Repair Masque
LI: KCKT, Suave Naturals Coconut
Style Creme: Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie
Gel: KCCC, Eco Styler Argan Oil
Sealer: EVCO, EVOO
3b/3c, High Desity, High Porosity, Medium Texture, BSL
""Live by the sun, love by the moon"
Co: As I am Coconut CoWash,VO5 Claifying Conditioner
DC: Macadamia Repair Masque
LI: KCKT, Suave Naturals Coconut
Style Creme: Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie
Gel: KCCC, Eco Styler Argan Oil
Sealer: EVCO, EVOO
3b/3c, High Desity, High Porosity, Medium Texture, BSL
""Live by the sun, love by the moon"
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Co: As I am Coconut CoWash,VO5 Claifying Conditioner
DC: Macadamia Repair Masque
LI: KCKT, Suave Naturals Coconut
Style Creme: Shea Moisture Curl Enhancing Smoothie
Gel: KCCC, Eco Styler Argan Oil
Sealer: EVCO, EVOO
3b/3c, High Desity, High Porosity, Medium Texture, BSL
""Live by the sun, love by the moon"
2A, fine, dense, high porosity, highlighted
low-poo: Leonor Greyl bain vitalisant b*
co-wash: CJ smoothing*
RO: ^, SS Caitlin's*
DT: CJ rehab
LI: CJ rehab
stylers: CJ CCCC*
oils: coconut
*experimenting
HG
loves: aloe, oils, esp. coconut :love10:
hates: acv, baking soda
on the fence about polyquats
You can find sweet almond oil for a reasonable price the UK in Asian grocery stores and the World Foods aisle of larger supermarkets - KTC brand £2 for 300ml, East End brand £1.50 for 200ml for example.
CO-wash: Inecto coconut/ Elvive Volume Collagen
Treatments: Komaza Care Matani, coconut/ sweet almond/ fractionated coconut oils, Hairveda Sitrinillah
Leave in: Fructis Sleek & Shine (old), Gliss Ultimate Volume, various Elvive
Styler: Umberto Giannini jelly, Au Naturale styling gelee
Flour sack towel, pixie diffuse or air dry.
Experimenting with: benign neglect
I bought mine from Amazon for about £4.99 for 50ml, I think I'll try supermarketsanext time!
eta: I just had a look on Amazon to check, and it's really cheap on there so I must have been thinking of jojoba oil, d'oh!
I use grapeseed oil - almost no scent and much lighter than olive.
Medium texture
Normal elasticity
High porosity
Penetrating oils tend to diffuse under the cuticle very slowly and they probably won't start whilst the hair is still wet/ damp, so they should make a semi permeable seal fine initially but may be be less effective as the days pass. Any oil coating that does not penetrate will still rub off on the pillowcase or sleep cap, hands and anything else it touches so become less effective also. Many wavies will have rewashed to boost wave before they feel the oil is no longer sealing water in or out, since our curl pattern is easily crushed overnight.
Tonya McKay on one difference between a penetrating and non penetrating oil
"Both coconut oil and mineral oil enhance clumping of adjacent hair strands. This mechanism aids in curl formation, definition of curl pattern, and curl retention. Capillary adhesion, the mechanism by which this is possible, occurs when oils form sufficiently thick films on the surfaces of hair strands and capillary forces between adjacent hairs attract them to one another, effectively binding them into clumps.
Researchers found that capillary adhesion between hair fibers remains constant with mineral oil, but is found to decrease over time with coconut oil, olive oil, and sunflower oil. The reason for this is that the very non-polar mineral oil molecules remain on the surface of the cuticle of the hair. In contrast, the saturated or mono-unsaturated fruit and vegetable oils in this study slowly penetrate into the cell membrane complex (CMC) and are transported into the hair shaft. As this diffusion occurs, the film thickness on the surface of the hair gradually decreases, which diminishes capillary forces. As a result the cuticle scale structure begins to dominate the behavior of the surface of the hair once more, and subsequent tangling and frizz can occur."
Mineral Oil Versus Coconut Oil: Which is better?
Some of the studies
http://journal.scconline.org//pdf/cc1999/cc050n06/p00327-p00339.pdf
http://journal.scconline.org/pdf/cc2003/cc054n02/p00175-p00192.pdf
http://journal.scconline.org//pdf/cc2005/cc056n05/p00283-p00295.pdf
http://journal.scconline.org//pdf/cc2007/cc058n02/p00135-p00145.pdf
CO-wash: Inecto coconut/ Elvive Volume Collagen
Treatments: Komaza Care Matani, coconut/ sweet almond/ fractionated coconut oils, Hairveda Sitrinillah
Leave in: Fructis Sleek & Shine (old), Gliss Ultimate Volume, various Elvive
Styler: Umberto Giannini jelly, Au Naturale styling gelee
Flour sack towel, pixie diffuse or air dry.
Experimenting with: benign neglect
3c hair, high porosity, mediumdensity, low elasticity, fine hair.
Curly hair routine/regime:
Combine the modified cg-method (low poo) and a modified tightly curly method.
-Condition and leave in: Aubrey Organics, Giovanni Barzilian keratin and argan oil
-Sealer: shea butter, Argan, olive and coconutoil
-Gel: homemade flaxseed gel, Kinky curly custard, Queen Helene Curl royal shaping creme.
I don't use it on my dry hair anymore, as I don't need it (I don't really suffer from dryness anymore) and on my LP hair oils can look greasy. I still use it now in pre-poos though, if I'm in the mood
LP: Shea Moisture (currently JBCO)
Conditioner/CW: Jason Aloe Vera
LI: Aunt Jackie's Curls & Coils Quench
Refreshing: TRESemmé Naturals Aloe Vera & Avocado
Gel: DevaCurl Ultra Defining Gel
DC: Aunt Jackie's Soft & Sassy Super Duper Softening Conditioner
Treatments: Coconut oil/Coconut milk
UK curly. CG since Oct 2013.
Growing my hair to WL when dry :thumright:
Colored treated
Combo Low and High porosity
Medium coarse texture
Goosefootprints hair analysis
Co-wash- As I Am Co-wash
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Style- la looks sport gel