Possibly the Oddest Thing I could Write About Today: Airing Powder
Prepare to be Kept On Your Toes, ‘netpeople. I know I haven’t been updating as regularly as I should (blame my awesome-but-psychotically-enthusiastic professors), and now you’re finally getting one and it’s about…AIRING POWDER.
What is AIRING POWDER, you ask? Well, it’s a recipe for something nifty-sounding that I picked up in a community whose website has since gone poof ~ I hope it comes back, because I’d love to find the OP (original poster) and slobber my thanks all over her. And maybe ask if she’s cool if I make some more of this and sell it. It’s the kind of thing where a few of the ingredients are expensive, but only because you have to buy them in quantity, and then you have enough to make a zillion batches. I’ve been meaning to set up a storefront, anyway, full of the suitably random kinds of things I would sell.
Anyway, AIRING POWDER (ok, I swear I’m going to stop capitalizing it now) is basically a fancy kind of dry shampoo. Or rather, it’s dry shampoo, but it’s not gross and smells good and actually makes your hair look and feel clean, instead of just technically "being" clean like most dry shampoo. This stuff is awesome. And the fact that it works for me, with my gallons o’ hair that gets difficult to manage two days after I wash it, makes a pretty good case that it’s awesome in general. If you had shorter or thinner hair, it would be easy as well as effective. The only hair I can see it not working on is very curly hair, because using it involves brushing, and as you curlies know, you can’t really brush, never mind thoroughly.
Okay, look, it’s barely 20 degrees out here. Going out with wet hair is a recipe for nose-blowing disaster (especially since my mom’s spreading germs all over the house as we speak) — and my hair takes almost 8 hours to dry. The less I can get it wet during the week, the better. BUT one can’t be greasy at work, and my hair, while getting long now, is still not long enough to put up. (It has to be long enough for Full On Bondage to get it to stay up.)
This Airing Powder is an herbal concoction that you put on your head, rub into the roots, let sit a minute, and then brush out. (Lots and lots of brushing, especially if you have a metric crapload of hair like I do. But it’s worth it.) No matter how dirty you were to begin with, at the end you have hair that seems for all the world like it just dried from being washed, and smells good too. It’s amazing. And the effect lasts all day. I’ve never tried doing it more than one day in a row, but I’m sure eventually I will.
Here, basically, is how you make the stuff. Note that it’s work-intensive (takes 3 weeks!) and that some of the ingredients are rather blindingly expensive (don’t even ask what "honey absolute" costs). This is why it’s a great thing to make and sell. But I always like to empower people to make their own — that’s how a fair society works, yah? People without money make things; people who have enough money to afford the convenience, buy them from the people who made them. Everybody wins. So, here’s the recipe, and I feel like a clod because I don’t remember the name of the person who originally offered it, but as soon as I get her name I’ll put it up. She’s a goddess. ;)
INGREDIENTS
2 quart glass canning jar
3.5 c. Orris Root Powder
3 c. Cornstarch
3-9 drops Rosemary EO (Essential Oil)
3-9 drops Lavender EO
3-9 drops Honey EO (AKA Honey Absolute)
9 dried rose petals or 9 little pieces of silk about the size of rose petals.
PROCEDURE
1. Put 1 c. of Orris Root powder in the jar
2. Put 2 c. of the cornstarch in the jar
3. Close and roll a bit to mix. Do not shake.
4. Put 1-3 drops of EO on a rose petal or silk swatch and drop in the jar after the oil is well absorbed. Roll the jar a bit (don’t shake). Do this with each drop of EO. Roll in between additions.
5. Put the rest of the Of the powders in and roll again.
6. Place the powder in a cool cupboard for 3 weeks, Roll jar every couple of days.
To use it, you also need a boar-bristle hairbrush (about \$5 anywhere) and some muslin ("cheesecloth", very cheap stuff you can get at most groceries and/or health stores). I won’t bother with detailed instructions here, but if anybody wants those, I have ‘em.
In the meantime, it’s time for work and I’m Not Going Out With Wet Hair. YAY!
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I’m amazed that no one’s commented about this stuff. I hardly even care about my hair, and I’m interested in this stuff simply because I generally shower at night, and the water in my hair slowly brings it down (since I sleep on my back, that’s not a good thing), making my hair stand up brutally strong in the morning.
Sounds kind of cool to make your own shampoo that doesn’t screw you over in any way, but… 0_0 expensive. $80/oz. for Honey Absolute. Maybe if my hair gets longer I’ll think about it.
Yeah, that’s why I thought it’d be a good thing to make and re-sell…each batch only takes a few drops of the expensive stuff…and I could sell it for, say, $20 for a good-sized amount. …If I had the money for the honey absolute myself, I’d be all over it! ;)