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DIY Hair Detangler

Jul 30, 2020 02:13 PM Central
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DIY Hair Detangler

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The constant battle over hair brushing. If you’re a #girlmom you may know what I’m talking about. With my daughter, it is a daily struggle to brush her hair. My boyfriend’s daughter is old enough to brush her own but she constantly only brushes the top, leaving the underside a matted mess – yuck and ouch!

The one thing that I have found that helps is hair detangler. They go through a bottle of it very quickly, and I also like to know exactly what is in the products I’m using so I make my own. I love this recipe because it’s super quick and easy to make (no long DIYs for this mama) and only takes a handful of ingredients.

First, you’ll need a spray bottle. I really like these pretty blue cobalt 4oz, glass bottles from Amazon. Glass is perfect for this recipe since I like to use essential oils to help keep their hair looking clean and healthy between washes, and to help keep the critters away that get passed head to head when school is in session. You know the ones I’m talking about.

Ingredients/Supplies:

4oz Spray bottle
Hair Conditioner. I use the copaiba vanilla from Young Living
Kidscents sleepyize essential oil blend
Cedarwood essential oil
Bonus: Rosemary essential oil

Steps:

Add a squirt (a half tablespoon or so if you like to measure) of conditioner to the spray bottle.
Add 4 drops of sleepyize essential oil.
Add 3 drops cedarwood
Optional: add 2 drops rosemary essential oil
Fill the rest with warm water.
Put the top on and mix gently by inverting the bottle back and forth.

My girls love this detangler, and I hope yours do too!

If you love those glass bottles as much as I do, you can get more recommendations on my oily extra must haves here.

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Meet Bryn

Constantly busy. Constantly there for others and doing what I thought (real or assumed) as expected of me.

In February of 2009 my life changed forever. Actually, it started years prior- 2003 maybe, with my mom’s original diagnosis. On that February day and the days that followed I found myself questioning everything. “Should I stay in school? Are my younger siblings doing ok? My dad CANNOT take care of himself. Should I go home to make sure they’re all alright?” Those are just a fraction of the things I asked myself.

Anger. I also remember feeling so angry. “How could she? Why us? Why me? Why now, when I’m about to graduate college, my sister is about to graduate high school and my brother just starting high school?” Don’t even get me started on my sister’s graduation party and the anxiety over making it as perfect as possible for her despite the huge sadness that accompanied it all.

One day I’ll be gone. I don’t know when or how – none of us do. Something random could take me out tomorrow (not morbid it’s just life). I do know this – I will do whatever I can to delay that truth. I will do whatever I can in the here and now to make my kids a little more prepared.

People always preach “self-care”. I do at times, too. For me it comes from a deep ache. It comes from a place I don’t want anyone else to find themselves in.

It took a lot of grief, lessons in patience, a marriage, a divorce, another marriage and navigating mothering through it all, now with step-kids under my wings also. Step-kids that are adopted to their parents and have undergone more hurt than they deserve. Step-kids that have taught me so much about love and hurt.

Love and hurt. We can’t have one without the other, can we? I found myself lost. I was completely lost in motherhood that I began neglecting my own needs and the needs of my first marriage – hence why there was a second one (I didn’t say this was a pretty story – just a real one).

Now I’m slowly rebuilding my world while focusing on my health – all my health – mental and physical. Equally important.

My journey is far from over, but I've chose to share my journey both as a recounting and remembering for me, but more importantly, so maybe it will save someone else a bit of pain in their own journey – or at least let you know you’re not alone.

If you’ve read this far, welcome. Also, thank you. I’m happy to have you in this space with me.

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