 Hi, beautiful. I feel like I'm back in school. I've been studying rice water all damn day long. I've looked up everything, I've researched everything, so hopefully I bring you the most accurate information possible today. Rice water has become such a huge thing lately. It is everywhere, and I wanna get to the bottom of it. Why are there people obsessed with it, and is it really growing your hair faster, longer, healthier, and stronger? And should you be using rice water on your hair to make it grow? Rice water seems to be that... The Yao women in China use this technique to grow their hair to extremely long lengths. They're actually known to have the longest hair in the world. So today we're gonna have some fun with rice. I'm gonna show you how to make this concoction and put it on your hair and show you what happens and how it works and what's the science behind it, if any. You guys know I always tell you the truth about these things. Do I really like them or do I really not? I'm not scared to be like, oh, this is dumb. Even if everybody loves it, I'm excited to fuck around with some rice. Let's do it. Lesson one, what is this? And why is it good for your hair? So rice, it's actually quite a good thing for you. I mean, I eat a lot of rice. However, I've never put it on my hair and it seems pretty interesting. It's filled with amino acids, vitamins B and E, and also minerals and antioxidants. You're getting a moment of a lot of things going on this hair and a lot of those things are included in many products you're using your hair today. So that's great. I mean, I love a natural way of getting things that have been produced in the hair care market. So I think this is cool. It sounds great so far. Everything I've been hearing about the ingredients sound legit. So advocates who use rice water a lot believes that it detangles your hair quite nicely. It also can make your hair very smooth and silky and soft. As you can see in this, yeah, women, they have a very shiny, beautiful black hair and that's how they claim they keep it that way with this rice water concoction. It also makes hair very, very strong. You can pull it and pull it every which way and it won't snap. It'll be beautiful. That's good for people with any kind of damage in their hair, right? So it seems legit. It also stimulates new hair growth and makes your hair grow faster. Those were my findings and I don't know sometimes I don't know if I believe that. That seems like a little bit too good to be true for a little bit of rice and a little bit of water. I mean, you know what I mean? It seems like a little crazy. You know what you think Emma? Yeah, it sounds wild. Can I get the enthusiasm? Oh my God, that sounds unbelievable. Unbelievable. Like that's just unbelievable. So we have the women to thank for this. They actually use this method to wash their hair once a week from my research. That's what they do. Their hair is actually so long. They cut their hair only once in their life when they're 18, believe it or not. That is like them turning into a woman. That's what they do. They cut their hair off and they grow back long until the day they die. So it is literally to the floor on some of these women and they dip their hair into this rice water solution. They then rinse the rice water out in the river. Pretty cool. I'm down for that. Washing your hair as much as we do in this modern time is actually not really supposed to be a thing and shampoo is man-made obviously and you don't exactly need it to survive. However, many of us, most of us have become very dependent on shampoo but these women claim that they do not use any shampoo and they do not need it and that is why their hair grows so fast. Before we start making this concoction and show you how to do it, maybe you're wondering if you're like me and you're a huge skeptic about anything like this. Is there any studies going on? Do we know if this is legit? Kinda skeptical, kinda weird, sounds freaky. Why are we putting rice in our heads? Emma, would you put rice water on your head? I mean, after a year and all these reviews, yes. That's a big fat yes from you? Yes, that's a yes for me. Yes or yes? Yes. Oh, wow. There was a paper in 2010 that was published because of a company trying to promote their new hair product so they did this research to go with that. So, you know, you don't really know how legit the research is when it's backed by a product. The author noted that rice water may increase elasticity of the hair. So that's pretty cool. At least there's been some sort of research done about this because when these kind of like weird concoctions come up, I'm like, hmm, but do we know? However, the study relies heavily on historical examples to prove their point. So we're kind of like not really getting too much research here. It's definitely like, hmm, it could work. It could not work. It's still kind of up in the air. It works for you and it works for the young women. Maybe we're onto something. So how do you make it, Brad? Can we get into that already? I'm waiting for it. Literally, like what the fuck, Brad? Like you're so annoying. Why can't we just learn how to make this stupid rice water? I'm sitting here. I'm doing calculations and research. Everybody does a different thing. Oh, it does rice water. I don't know who's right. However, the young women, I watched a video with them doing it and I trusted them the most. They're the ones who like created this technique. So I'm gonna use their technique. So I'm gonna put rice in a bowl with some water and then I'm going to drain out the water. That is just to cleanse the rice. I'm gonna put water with the rice again and I am going to scrunch into my fingers, clean it all up and it's supposed to be really, really nice and clean. This is what the young women do. After that's done, you can drain that water out. Now they don't really tell you how much rice and how much water to put in this bowl, but I'm gonna do one part rice to two parts water. Now this water is gonna be like, you know, lukewarm. That's fine. They don't really specify either on this, but we're gonna guess today. And it's gonna start to get a little milky looking, a little like a little dirty looking and we like it like that. Now the young women don't just do the rice with the water, right? A lot of these treatments online, that's what people do. However, people say it stinks. People say it smells really bad. I don't wanna just smell bad and I want there to be more nutrients in here than just some rice. They also add a pomelo peel and apparently the grapefruit is the closest to that that you can find in America. So I'm gonna take the peels of a grapefruit here and I'm gonna cut that up and add all the peels into my little concoction over here. After that, I'm gonna add a little bit of essential oils. You can really add any essential oil you want. I'm gonna be adding eucalyptus today because I want that minty beautiful smell and just a few drops will do. Once that's all in the jar, I'm gonna let that sit for one week. According to the young woman, fermenting it is what you must do. That is gonna help lower the pH to make it better for your hair because if the pH is too high or too low, it could throw off your hair and do all kinds of ugly shit to it. So we're gonna let it ferment for one week. You can let it ferment for longer than that, but that is what the young women do. I'm gonna follow the young women because they are here for me today. So once we come back after a week, I'm gonna take it out and I'm gonna strain it and that is the beautiful magic power water that we've been looking for that is it. And all you gotta do now is apply it to your head. Now, the young women, like I said, they wash their hair with this. So they're not washing it beforehand or after. What I'd recommend is using a very gentle shampoo if you must just on your roots where it gets kind of oily, not on your ends, nowhere else. And just do a little cleanse. We don't wanna get our hair really, really clean before doing this. The purpose is for it to be a replacement of washing your hair according to these women. And so we don't wanna overwash it or else it'll really dry your hair once you use the rice water. So once you do that, you're gonna dip your ends in the water and then pour the rest on your scalp and get it all in there and look beautiful. Now, they also say to leave this on for 20 minutes on your hair. You can leave it on longer, but I would recommend 20 minutes since that is what these women say they do and I'm going with that. So now you're gonna wanna rinse this off of your hair. Now you can rinse it, well, just don't overdo it, it's okay to have a little bit left on there. Get it out. Now, the young women use this on their hair to wash it once a week. This is the only thing they use and they use it once a week. So if you're wondering how much you should do this, I would say once a week or once every two weeks. However much you use it, I'm sure you'll see some benefits. So that's how you do it guys. That's how you make it and I hope you try it out. I hope it works for you and if it does, let me know. Now, you might be wondering, Brad, well, I mean, I heard you talk about it. What do you personally think? Would you use this on your hair? I would use it on my hair, yes. Do I recommend it for you? I would say yes and no. It's probably amazing for the young women to use this on their hair. However, we do have a lot of hair care to offer in America and throughout most of the world. So if you have access to great hair care that's backed with a ton of research and science, a part of me really just wants to say, use that. I don't know if we need to be fermenting rice water for a week and putting on our hair in order to get benefits. I'm not sure if it's any better than using something that is store bought. There's very minimal research done on this and the benefits that come from using rice water like vitamin E, B, antioxidants, stuff like that can all be found in a lot of hair products on the market. But if you're bald on a budget and you really wanna try something new, this will definitely not hurt your hair. It's not gonna make your hair fall out. It's not gonna do anything bad to it, I'm sure. So I say go for it, try it out. But again, if you have money and you have some stores around you, go and buy a hair mask. That have great ingredients and they're from a great brand. I think you're gonna get just as much benefits from that as you are the rice water. I know everybody wants this miracle cure to growing hair but I'm here to be the one that's realistic about things and just give you my take on it. You don't have to agree. However, that's how I feel and I'm sticking to it. Use it or don't use it, it's up to you. I don't mind it, I don't hate it but I think there's stuff that's out there that's a little bit easier to use. Well, if you made it this far in the video, I have a little fun fact for ya. You know what's crazy and so interesting? I told you guys that the young women cut their hair at 18 as kind of like them coming into their womanhood is what I got from my research could be incorrect but we'll go with that for now. They actually keep that hair and they use it as like an extension piece for their hairstyles for the rest of their lives. I know, it's crazy. They wrap their hair up, they connect their ponytail from when they were 18 on there and they wrap it with it. Yo, so they were basically the inventors of hair extensions is what I'm getting from that. It's pretty cool. Rice water, pretty cool, but you know. If you guys aren't already subscribed, make sure you do right down below. 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