 guys welcome back to my channel thanks so much for tuning in for another video it's just Janine if you're new welcome and don't forget to subscribe if you're already subscribed welcome back so in today's video I'm just gonna update you on my rice water and what's been going on with the rice water I know I have been kind of in my aid and I've had people question me on what's going on with the rice water and I'm gonna do a lymph check one is gonna be the next update video well this is kind of a semi-update video mainly because I want to show you guys what I'm doing differently what my rice water I've already mentioned in a previous video before that I am listening how often I'm doing the rice water I normally well I used to do it once a week every wash day but now it's down to every two weeks just because of the protein that's in the rice so I have been tweaking the rice water recipe a little bit that works for me just trying to customize it for me and I know a lot of people customize it what works for them but I didn't go too far off the deep end I just kind of kept it simple but amped it up just a little bit so if you watched a couple of my videos already previous videos you'll notice that I have been using the hibiscus leaves and flowers and a couple of my hair regimens and DIYs and doing some things with that and I love the hibiscus because it is definitely known for promoting hair growth steaming stimulating hair growth the one thing that I did notice about using the hibiscus is the graying of my hair the graying of my hair was just getting just ridiculous and I have noticed that with the one the the tea the hair tea that I did which I'll leave the video link where you can check it out the hair teeth I do that has the hibiscus in it I have noticed that it has been kind of keeping the premature gray hairs at bay so I have been noticing the graying of my hair has reduced down significantly because I could really tell when the grain was just completely out of control so it's it's getting better hibiscus does add a lot of hair benefits to your hair that are very helpful at least to me some other added benefits that you would get using the hibiscus flower is that it's a great conditioner it prevents dryness frizz and breakage it also helps to treat your scalp if you have an itchy scalp or dealing with dandruff thickening your hair and adding volume it's also rich in vitamin C which gives you a boost of collagen which aids in strengthening your hair and hair growth if you just want to add those extra benefits into your hair you can put in your shampoos your conditioner and I will be doing some upcoming videos of how you can incorporate the hibiscus flower into your shampoos and conditioners and your leave-ins and your sprays and all those things just to give your hair those added benefits so I'm going to show you guys how I make my rice water with the hibiscus incorporated incorporated in it but let me go ahead and show you that after because this is like a few days later so this has been firmating for like a couple days now so let me just show you what it looks like right now before I show you how I make it so this is the hibiscus rice water so again I just tweaked it just to my liking and as you can see it is a bright beet red at the top and the rice is at the bottom and the leaves are just floating around in there now the way that I have mine tweaked it does not stink it does not reek it's not it doesn't smell sour because I put peppermint oil in there and you can use your own essential oils peppermint lavender tea tree I just did peppermint but I might throw some of the other essential oils in there but I just did peppermint because it just I mean there's really all that you need it's just a couple drops of peppermint and it completely kills the odor so from the benefits of the rice water and the benefits of the hibiscus why not the bottom my hair hasn't fallen out yet if anything my hair has gotten thicker my hair has regrown and gotten longer I have trimmed my hair twice so I'm not doing a lint check because it wouldn't make sense to do a lint check because I have trimmed my hair twice I I can't really check I can't show you that it's grown I can only just tell you so just take my word for that my hair has grown grown grown my hair has grown back since using this this rice water and it could just be from just regular you know just my hair growing because the dead ends are gone I say it's the rice water to be quite honest as far as how fast it's growing back and how thick my hair is getting so with the combination of the rice water the hibiscus the castor oil the scalp massages I'm doing with the oils that I'm using my hair is definitely seeing great improvement and changes for the good so I'm very excited about you know my hair and the health of my hair at this point now it's not where I wanted to be but it's definitely getting there it's on the right track so I'm definitely gonna keep this going so yeah that's my little update on the rice water and what's going on with that and how I tweaked it so while I'm off-camera washing my hair I'm gonna insert the video clip of how I make the rice water while I do that let you guys check that out and then I'm gonna get back on camera and show you guys how I use the rice water how I apply to my hair and that's pretty much gonna be the video I'm not gonna do any styling in this video I'm just showing you strictly how I make the rice water now and how I use it in my hair so without further ado let's get started and I'm just going to take a black t-shirt and wrap around me because the hibiscus will stain so anytime that you are using hibiscus you definitely want to make sure that you do have on something dark preferably something that's old that you're not gonna use or wear because it will stain your clothes so after I wash my hair I go straight to using the rice water and then after I use the rice water that I do my condition so if you're a low hair porosity person like me then you know to warm up your product it just allows for better hair absorption and penetration of the product so I don't like for my hair cuticles to close up because it's hard for me to work my fingers through my hair so I like to work with products that are nice and warm so this rice water is warm that's how I always do my rice water before I start applying it to my hair you can pour this over your hair or you can use a spray I prefer to spray it in so that way I'm really concentrating on massaging my scalp so we'll go ahead and get started also let me make mention before I forget I will be straighting my hair out before the end of this year and this year is almost over so I will be doing a lymph check because I do want to see what the actual length of my hair will be towards the end of the year so I will be doing a lymph check so just stay tuned for that video I have not forgot about you guys I know you've been asking about the lymph check I will be doing it not on this video but I will be doing it before the year is over but on this one I'm just gonna show you again how I applied the rice water so let's get started so I had to go off camera and change towels because the other towels are soaking wet so doing this on camera is a little difficult I usually do this standing in the shower so it's all running down and not all over the floor and all over the place so it's all sprayed in my hair worked in really well massage my scalp really well so I'm just gonna pin it back up again I'm just gonna do just one big try to do one big ponytail I don't know what I'm doing anyway and then I'm going to apply two shower caps so what I do is I just let this sit on my hair for about 30 minutes about 30 to 45 minutes but normally I just let it sit for 30 minutes approximately and then I rinse it out thoroughly followed up with conditioner then style my hair is normal so that's pretty much my routine for my rice water so this pretty much concludes the video guys I hope you enjoyed it I'm just watching me make the rice water how I'm making it now and how I plot to my hair and just my my little routine that I now start to do with the rice water and it has been working very well for me so while I continue with the rice water I most definitely will continue with the rice water it works for my hair I can't speak for anybody else but again as always say what works for me may not work for you if you did enjoy this video don't forget to give it a big thumbs up because it does help my channel don't forget to subscribe and also to turn on your notification bell so that way you'll be alerted each time I do upload a new video it's just Janina I'll see you guys on the next video bye guys