GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

okay ive been growing my hair out since feb. it is not even shoulder length. i just got it layered and it feels so much shorter! i was wondering is there something i could do to get it to grow faster? What about the nail and hair vitamins or do they make hair grow on your body too?

Try this. Read the steps at the bottom of the page. Only the first 2 are required. This does take time and patience but it works or at least it has for me. My hair has thickened, is growing faster and even regrowing where it was receding.
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Oh, and its very cheap. I am not yet finished with the first bottle which I purchased 8 months ago.

The average hair growth per month is a 1/2 inch.
Taking prenatal vitamins, getting your ends trimmed regularly. Exercise helps because it causes your body to increase blood to follicles. Massaging your head also increases blood flow.

Lots of things can hinder hair growth, getting older, medications, stress, hereditary factors.

Ok Deena, I'd send you a pm on this but you have PMs off! I've bought your potion and the rinse and if my hair all falls out when I use it I'm going to cry, so unless you want to deal with me when I'm in a panic I'd urge you to tell me now if you're just kidding

Seriously though, it really smells bad, and the rinse smells no better.... how long does the smell last?!? I don't need to smell like roses, and quite frankly anything is better on me than old spice, but I'd rather not smell like pine-sol for a week. I'm afraid to use it just because of the smell!

I am not and was not kidding. You are using too much. Follow the directions and just use what will fit in the palm of your hand. After you have done the rinse then shampoo with a normal shampoo and follow up with a normal conditioner. Only use it once a week.

What ya want is Dagny's patented miracle gro. This combination of swamp gasses, mud and vigourous crainial massages will rejuvinate your folically challenged noggin 100%..or your money back

Only tested on Florida Tomatoes and irradiated bunnies

(Laboratoire Dagny, 4 miles off 41..next to the knocking shop)

Obviously you are wanting to generate conflict or at least confusion. I think I will come into your guest quarters and pour water on your computer Dags.

Not quite using too much yet, if none counts as too much... I just opened the bottle and sniffed. I always take a whiff before I put something in or on my body.

I'll give it a shot. Thanks Deena.

Isn't oil suppose to be a carcinogen?

Not pure unrefined crude oil. Maybe refined motor oil is but I never checked.

I'm pretty sure used motor oil is, but I don't think even Deena would put that in her hair. I personally wouldn't worry about unrefined oil, but you never know, I guess... and anything can cause cancer given enough time/in large enough doses.

<---- Still haven't found the courage to use the oil though. I almost did, but then realized I have to leave it in for a half hour and didn't have the time. This weekend I'm going to give it a go. My hair stylist is probably going to berate me when she sees me next week though.... I hope the oil doesn't mess up the dye.

I smell like I've spent my life in a wood shop staining furniture. My whole apartment smells like pinesol. Even my kids keep asking what I was painting. I'm never going to smell sweet again; I was worried about this.

I put old sheets and pillowcases on my bed last night, I'm just hoping the smell hasn't seeped into my nice pillows...

Whatever the results of the Deena Experiment, share your findings. A positive result, even if slight, could give hope to many people.

And you may get used to the pine smell. Be glad the secret recipe was not based on dung.

Try taking 5000 mg of Biotin every day. It's cheap, and Biotin is very good for your hair. Be sure and take Minoxodil, which in generic form is cheap. I see no reason not to try it.

Used motor oil is definitely a carcinogen. It's been beaten up and chemically changed by hours of extreme heat. Worse, it is also full of unburned byproducts of gasoline which has blown by the piston rings. It's nasty stuff.

I can't imagine that crude oil would be of any real benefit to your hair. That sounds like pure quackery. Call it crude oil, call it snake oil, it's all the same. If you're going to rub something on your head to grow hair, at least rub something clinically proven to be effective like minox.

Yes, most definitely, my brain says it's quackery. But since she's already doing it, she may report on it.

Sometimes, logic gets surprised.

Back in the 80s crude oil was tested for carcinogenicity in humans and rats. The result was a negative, but qualified: sometimes, secondary products can be found that caused small skin tumours in mice (not humans).

But crude oil in itself is not listed as carcinogenic anywhere, and considering the regulations in place, I'd say chances are the Pennsylvania Crude Oil is clear of all those contaminants (which seem to be rare, in any case).

A brief info page from the International Programme on Chemical Safety:

http://www.inchem.org/documents/iarc/vol45/45-02.html

I'm not expecting much if anything either, but hey, I've always wanted shinier hair so if I have to give wrong directions to drunk tanker ship captains so they run up on the rocks it's what I have to do.

I suppose that I have bet on it not doing any actual damage, and I'm willing to try quite a few cheap quack solutions if they're not going to hurt anything. If all my hair fell (or falls) out because of it, well, I'd have to hunt Deena down and shave her head while she sleeps. She can't get too far on that bike. (I jest! I'd never do that Deena! Besides, Jesus would probably put up a force field around you or something)

Perhaps I'll try Biotin too.

I will give you all an update if and/or when I notice anything, but the truth is that I lack any sort of control. I was taking finasteride for a few months before I switched to dutasteride five months ago; I also started taking spiro and estradiol; I've changed shampoos and conditioners a month ago; I dramatically changed my diet a year ago and I'm working on changing it again (because I need to stop *losing* weight now, I'm too damn skinny!) so nutritionally things keep changing.

If my hair magically doubled in volume and started growing twice as fast, if it suddenly became stronger and less frizzy with less breakage, I wouldn't be able to point at anything, I'd just keep on doing whatever I was doing.

Cassie I do hope you got the pure crude oil and not the crude oil shampoo. I also hope you got the pga/water rinse because that is what is used afterwards to "cut" the oil and make normal shampooing easy and leaving no smell. And finally I hope you understand that once a week for months is what this takes. It does not suddenly blossom overnight but then transplants take quite a few months to grow in so what's the rush. I am approaching a year this fall and it has taken time but it is working. I will relish tossing my wig collection soon.

Yep, I have the oil and the grain, I suspect I did use too much though the first time. My hair didn't all fall out though (yet), so I'm probably safe and I'll keep trying for a while, again, I figure it can't hurt (too much) Detangling the rats nest I made trying to rinse it, on the other hand, oowwwiieeee! I'll be much more careful next time. I was more concerned with getting the oil all over myself than with rinsing the wrong direction - big mistake.

The great news is that the smell is gone now... mostly. If my colorist doesn't say anything funny on Thursday when I have my hair done I'll probably keep going with the oil thing, for a while, to see.

OMG you are only supposed to use what will fit in the palm of one hand and then massage it into the scalp. You aren't trying to lubricate a factory full of machinery. Oh well, so much for the directions - lol.

But Deeeennnnnaaaaaa..... I could only hold one bottle in the palm of my hand so that's what I used!

OMG! Now I understand the problem. Uhmm - perhaps those directions should have been a bit more specific. "Open top. Pour small amount into palm of hand. Set bottle down. Use only what is still in hand not what remains in bottle."

In my defense, the bottle does say "Directions: Thoroughly massage Crude Oil into hair and scalp with fingertips. Leave on for 30-45 minutes, then rinse with Crude Oil Hair Rinse." Nothing about what fits in my hand. And they surely don't specify what size hands either.

I know you said I should only use what fits into the palm of my hand, but I didn't remember that when I was reading the directions on the bottle and desperately trying not to get oil all over the place.

I now know I did use too much, probably 1 1/2 tablespoons, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.....

Oh well it won't kill you unless you drink it.

Hey Cassie,Does your bottle have the coupon "Get $100.00 off the purchase of the brooklyn bridge" on it?.I was just wondering because I threw my bottle out last week and forgot to take the coupon off.If you're not going to use your coupon,could you send it to me?I'm $75.00 short of having enough to buy the bridge,and that coupon would really help fulfill my dream... just kidding,I'm sure everything will work out just fine for you...