How do I use babycakes?
1. For all skin tones:
- babycakes makes a GREAT after-shower moisturizer.
- babycakes is perfect for putting on super-dry skin like hands and feet before bed. Wear cotton gloves for added healing. (tip: don't wash the gloves and use a special pair of socks for several days in a row while you sleep. The oils that are absorbed by the cotton gloves will stay in the gloves and only enhance the moisturizing of your skin in the nights to come!)
- I use babycakes as a before bed facial moisturizer as well as for spot-treating dry patches of skin caused by sensitivity or eczema.
2. For ethnic hair care and styles:
- Put a small amount in the palm of your hand.
- Rub hands together.
- The warmth of your body will melt the oils into a liquid.
- Apply to damp hair. (can be used on dry hair, but it's not my favorite method)
- I rub a little babycakes down the length of the hair when I am doing twists or braids to help hold the fly aways and also to protect from damage, drying out, or breakage while the hair is in a style.
- After shampooing, I use babycakes to add oils back to the hair.
3. Deep conditioning:
- similar to a hot-oil treatment, dampen your hair and use babycakes (melted in your hand) working from the ends up towards the scalp. Cover with a shower cap and let it stay on your hair for as long as you like! Soak in the tub, read a book, clean the house (ha ha!) and then go wash your hair as usual.
