Cherry Lola (2014)

Mingus said:

Straightening treatment? I have no idea how that would work. As far as the Cherry Lola, how long did you leave it on your hair? When you say it worked better, what it are you referring to? Were you expecting the Cherry Lola treatment to straighten your hair?

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MamitaLolita said:

Why are there no pics in this thread? *pouts*

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sexypebbly said:

Are you ladies doing this treatment on clean or dirty hair?

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Mingus said:

I had never heard of silk amino acid before, so I had to look it up. Based on the information that I found, I would say yes. Here's a comparison of the amino acids in the silk amino acid vs Braggs:

Silk Amino Acids (from Wikipedia)
Predominant composition of silk amino acids (by weight*):[7]

L-Alanine (34.36%)
Glycine (27.23%)
L-Serine (9.58%)
L-Valine (3.49%)
L-Threonine (2.00%)
[*SAAs contains other amino acids but only those representing >2.00% are listed due to their greater relevance]

Bragg Liquid Aminos (from their website)
Bragg Liquid Amino contains following essential Amino Acids:
* Arginine
* Aspartic
* Lysine
* Glutamic
* Serine
* Threonine
* Alanine
* Glycine
* Proline
* Isoleucine
* Methionine
* Valine
* Phenylalanine
* Tyrosine
* Leucine.

At first glance, it would appear that Bragg's has more individual aminos than the silk amino acid; however, the Bragg's amino acid content list is not broken down by weight as the silk one is. Also, the content list for the silk amino acid states that it does in fact contain more amino acids, but they're just not listed, because they are present in less significant amounts than the ones listed. It could be the case for the Bragg's that there are also only a handful of its listed amino acids that are present in significant quantities; it's just that we're not given the actual breakdown.

The thing that makes me think that they could be comparable is the effect that silk amino acid seems to have on the hair. By all accounts that I've read and heard, the silk amino acid seems to lend the same detangling properties to the hair as the Bragg's amino acids do in the Cherry Lola treatment - that property that makes the tangles melt from the hair.

So, if you already have silk amino acid in your beauty pantry, I would say it's definitely worth a shot at subbing it in place of the Bragg's. Although for future reference, you may want to invest in a bottle of Bragg's as it appears that the Bragg's is significantly cheaper than the silk amino acid. I bought a 32 oz bottle of Bragg's for under $8.00. I don't know the standard price for the silk amino acid, but a quick search suggests that it's much higher than the Bragg's.

If you do end up trying it out, come back and let us know how it worked out for you.

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Mingus said:

Cherry Lola is the hair treatment (consisting of yogurt, baking soda, and liquid aminos) named after the creator of the conconction. Here is the link to what I believe is her first post about it on her blog. As you'll see from the blog post, this was something that Cherry Lola stumbled on over 5 years ago. However, the first time that I heard about it was via this thread discussing the Maximum Hydration Method which incorporates the Cherry Lola treatment, or a variation of it, as part of that method. I found the actual recipe on the Cherry Lola website to be a little confusing, because she uses ratios as measurements instead of actual measures like cups or tablespoons. However, those ratios work out to be the following measurements, which is the recipe that people using the standard Cherry Lola treatment as originally devised are using: 2 cups plain whole fat yogurt 2 tbsps baking soda 2 tbsps liquid aminos (I use Bragg's)

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Napp said:

where do you get braggs amino acids?

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SweetlyCurly said:

Question: do you ladies shampoo this treatment out or just use conditioner afterwards?

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Mingus said:

So, I just tried MHM this week, and the cleansing portion of it essentially calls for conditioner and baking soda. I also added some liquid aminos to my mixture just to see how it would turn out in comparison to the Cherry Lola treatment. Well, my hair did not like the combination of conditioner and baking soda. As I explained over in the MHM thread, my hair seems to want protein once the cuticle is lifted by the baking soda. All that extra moisture from the conditioner just made my hair mushy. For my hair, it's the combination of the protein with the moisture that makes the magic happen. Using conditioner instead of the yogurt removes a lot of the extra protein that's part of the treatment.

Obviously, I can only vouch for how this combination effects my hair, but there it is.

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