Natural flyaway cure!

I'm one of those who gets the short hair halo every time I wear my hair up.  My halo is really bad because I figured out too late that my sunglasses were breaking a hair every time I took them off, so I have a whole clump of 2" short hairs on each side that needs to get long enough to fit in the ponytail.

I was using mousse to hold back those flyaways (because I just couldn't stand to look at them anymore).  But although it worked I never felt it looked that good, sticking my hair back like that.  It looked okay, didn't look that wet, but didn't look totally natural either.

So, my new cure is a mix of mango butter and jojoba oil (the same mix I've described before that I use to moisturize my ends.  I found out that if I just wipe a small amount of this on the hair around my face when my hair is drying after a shower, it tends to stay back without my doing anything else to it.  Not 100%, as its not glued down really, but it does stay back pretty well.  And it doesn't look greasy like I thought it would, putting stuff like that so close to my scalp. 

I get my butters and oils from camden-grey, as I found they have good prices for larger quantities of stuff, and I melt the mango butter in a frying pan on the lowest heat setting (then turn off the heat when it starts melting), then cool slightly and just pour in some jojoba (I probably shot for half and half of each abouts)  Then pour it in a glass jar and let it cool.  After it cools it turns back into a solid, but not as hard a solid as mango butter alone, and it melts when you hold it for easy application.  That may be why it works so well, it probably kind of turns back into a solid on your hair...that's maybe why you don't need to use much. 

I haven't tested this on a windy day, but putting it on once after a shower seems to be enough, even 2 or 3 days later I can still wear my hair up and get good stay-back power without having to reapply.  I'm happy about it!

Hope this helps someone.

Dang I lost my post!  I was saying that with aloe in it I bet you'd get lots of hold, even for elaborate styles, which is a good thing!  My mix doesn't really give hold, but it does help with the flyaway halo.

I tried jojoba too, to see if a less complicated version of it would work, and it does!  No flyaway halo!  I used just one or two drops, and spread out that much, it really doesn't look oily at all (not on the roots and scalp, but just on the part that sticks out two inches down, all around the top and sides of my head).   I am a little surprised, normally my hair shows any oilyness due to my blonde highlights, but it doesn't clump or separate or anything. 

Hey Susan,

I am happy to hear that you've found a solution to that problem.  I hate when strands get caught in the hinge of my glasses.  The worst kind of glasses in this regard are those that have a spring action on the hinge.  Anyway, this is almost never a problem for me because I rarely wear my hair loose with glasses on.

susan & borne.blonde, I get those too!  I actually think there are more now, when I haven't been coloring my hair much.  Since I just figure it was some weird anomaly with my hair, I never wondered what caused them--I wonder if everyone with lighter/finer hair gets them? 

That would probably be alright assuming that the ingredients they mention in that paragraph are all that are in there.  It looks awfully expensive though for a small jar.  I get mine here,   http://www.camdengrey.com  and you can get a 1 pound block that lasts forever for $7.50.  (Click on "butters" in the left hand column and scroll down).