I don’t know if I’ve said it here, but I’ve done it...mostly after dunking them, just cause I’m too impatient to let them dry on their own!
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I did. I do it on low heat quite often. No need to worry about the state of your mind!
Just catching up on the forum - re: hard water - I can absolutely verify that it changes the texture of a bag after dunking. I'm in Southern Arizona, and I have to use distilled water for all three stages of dunking - soap, vinegar, rinse. The first two bags I soaked ended up stiff after drying and conditioning with CPR. I ended up re-dunking them just to get them to soften up again.
(BTW - I'm talking seriously hard water - wikipedia uses a pic of a mineral-crusted faucet in S. Az for their article on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_Water_Calcification.jpg.)
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There used to be a member here from Florida. She used to collect rainwater for her rehabs. Easier to do in Florida than Arizona.
Thank you and sorry for the late reply. Children are at home due to school closures. I realise I can work from home and tutor them at the same time
I meant "CAN'T "Thank you and sorry for the late reply. Children are at home due to school closures. I realise I can work from home and tutor them at the same time
Yessss this is what faucets all over my house look like. The last time I contacted our city offices about our water hardness, they told me it was 9 gpg, with some areas in the state testing over 10, which is considered "very hard". Ugh I don't think I can redo all the bags I have already done because I frankly just do not enjoy the dunk and condition process plus the part I have really started to dislike is the brass polishing. I am glad you chimed in. I am starting to believe that my water is the problem for my bags. Its a problem for everything else in my house - hair, skin, clothes washing, dish washing, etc.
Just low heat for about half an hour at a time. I put towels on the shelf to avoid denting the leather and rotate the bag every 15 minutes or so. When it is still slightly moist, I take it out to remove the towels/facecloths which were shaping the bag, do a first CPR massage and let it dry fully outside the dryer.
Hard water is part of the reason I'm super slow at my rehabs. We are looking into getting whole house water filtering system. We have very hard water too. I'm sick of scrubbing all the bathroom walls, stiff clothes and dirty looking dishes even though we use lemishine. I really think it will be worth investing in . We got a descaler to save our pipes to prevent build ups but it doesn't remove the minerals. So it doesn't help with rehabs. This is what we have now and it's better than not having anything.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003Z96GR4#immersive-view_1585062024321
Very interesting. That is something I can research. When I tried the curly hair method several years ago, there was a huge focus on hard water and vinegar rinses so I tried the shower head filter that uses the hockey puck shaped filter, I tried the vitamin c shower filters, I tried the vinegar rinses, I tried the chelating shampoos, I did the distilled water rinses, and all I really learned is how badly I want a whole house salt filter system that would fix it from the source. We get terrible soap soap scum, so much that I stopped buying bar soap all together and use body washes instead. Yes dishes do not rinse clean alot of the time even with a rinse agent, and yes our clothes never feel soft and you can kiss a clean white color on clothes goodbye after the first wash.
Here's a pic. I'm in Ohio. I too have curly hair.
It's a chore styling my hair curly or straight.
I have a range of curls and waves from type 3b in the bottom lowest layers to 2a up on the crown and bangs area. For about 4 years I grew my curls out long and adhered strictly to the CG method, but eventually I gave up after not getting the results I'd hoped for. I have low to medium density, so really no matter what I do, I won't have the results I want. So now I keep it short length in a chin to shoulder length bob and layered. I might not always do strict CG approved silicone free products anymore, but I do try to keep other parts of the method like washing less often and reducing heat.