SheaMoisture Shea Butter Lotion and SheaMoisture Shea Butter are back in stock.

Don’t you love being able to do your own natural hair?  One of the reasons I wanted to go natural was to be able to handle my own hair.  Although, it was a bit trying at first, I have a handle on my hair now.  I have a relatively small list of styles, but hey I am working on more.☺  I have discovered that the real key is having the right products.  I am amazed at how much it has grown, since I have cut out the chemicals and the heat.  The longer it gets the easier it is for me to work with.  I will still go to my stylist for trims and occasional hair style, but mainly my hair is mine to work with.  Stay tuned for my bag of tricks used in styling my natural hair.  For now happy styling.  I would love to hear from you on how working with your natural hair is going.  Drop me a line!

Peace,
Tywana

Nubian Heritage Raw Shea Butter Hair Mist and SheaMoisture Black Soap are back in stock. Thanks for your patience.

SheaMoisture Shea Butter Leave-In Conditioner is available for purchase again.  Thanks once again for your patience.

We are adding these to the list of Nubian Heritage and SheaMoisture items not currently available for sale.  As soon as we can get these from Nubian Heritage, we will make the announcement here:

• SheaMoisture Shea Butter Lotion
• Nubian Heritage Raow Shea butter Lotion with Frankincense & Myrrh
• SheaMoisture Shea Butter

Once again, we apologize for the inconvenience.  We have had these items on order.  But, we cannot get enough to keep up with your demand.

We often (very often) get questions from clients asking us our opinion on someone else’s “natural” relaxer. Our policy is that we do not comment specifically on other people’s products. We cannot be experts on products we do not sell and have not used. And, as a professional courtesy, we choose not to disparage our competitors.  However, we can comment on natural relaxers, in general.

Treasured Locks was in business for a couple of years before we began selling anything like a relaxer.  To this day (after almost 7 years), the only product we sell that relaxes the hair is Baka Beauty’s atural-Laxer MIX and Natural-Laxer Plus.  However, this product is not a traditional relaxer in that it does not straighten the hair, does not have a permanent effect on the hair and is very mild.  We believe in the motto “First do no harm.”.  We simply do not feel it is worth it for us to sell products that could potentially do major damage to a client’s hair and/or scalp.  Even a good relaxer, in the wrong hands, can cause serious damage to your hair and scalp.  We believe that putting permanent relaxers into the hair is best left to a professional.

Because of the way black hair is structured, it is simply not possible to permanently straighten it with a mild product.  While what someone calls “natural” is debatable, what we have found in common with every natural relaxer we have researched is this.  If it permanently straightens the hair, it is either extremely “basic” (high
pH) or extremely “acidic” (low pH).  What this means is it is very chemically reactive and works pretty much the same way a chemical” perm does.  Many of the companies selling these natural” relaxers will not tell you what the ingredients are.  And, we have found a few dressing up the ingredients to sound more natural than you would think.  As we’ve said elsewhere, sodium laurel sulfate (derived from coconuts) could be termed “coconut
oil derivative”. Every chemical is derived, ultimately, from something natural.  Lye is produced by running water across ashes from  burned wood.  So, lye is “natural”.  But, instead of calling it lye, you could call it something like “natural ash extract”.

A natural, mild product that would straighten black hair would be the “Holy Grail” in this business. Black women would be beating our doors down if we found one.  And, if we ever do, we’ll be sure to let you know!  As
we’ve examined the claims of people trying to sell their products to us, we look for clues like ingredients that aren’t straight forward as o what they really are, extreme precautions on how to use the product, not listing the ingredients at all, etc.  These, to us, are clues that these products are probably every bit as caustic as a
traditional perm and we steer clear of them.

We apologize for the inconvenience.  But, due to the unavailability of a key ingredient in the Treasured Locks H2G Hair Growth Serum, we have run out of stock and cannot make more for a couple of weeks.  We will make more just as soon as we can get the ingredient.  We hope to have it available for sale again by the end of January.