{"id":1900,"date":"2014-07-08T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2014-08-22T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T10:42:40","slug":"flax-seed-gel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2014\/07\/flax-seed-gel\/","title":{"rendered":"Flax Seed Gel"},"content":{"rendered":"

My hair absolutely loves<\/strong> flax seed gel and I’ve been making it for the past year. The following recipe makes about 300ml of gel which I divide into four 100ml bottles and freeze. Each individual bottle — which is about 2\/3rds full — then defrosts and stays in the fridge for 2 weeks before the remains (if any) are discarded.<\/p>\n

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If a bottle of gel has to stay out of the fridge for longer periods, try adding 1% Optiphen.<\/p>\n

You will need:<\/p>\n

1\/4 cup (59ml) golden linseed
\nWater (distilled if you live in a hard water area)
\nCovered container
\nPan
\nSpoon
\nFine sieve
\nStick (immersion) blender
\nFreezable bottles\/containers<\/p>\n

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  1. Soak the seeds in 1 cup (236.5ml) of boiling water & leave overnight, in a covered container, at room temperature.<\/li>\n
  2. The next morning, put seeds and water into saucepan, add 1 more cup (236.5 ml) of water and bring to a boil stirring frequently. When the mix starts to froth up and rise up the saucepan turn heat down to a high simmer and continue to stir.<\/li>\n
  3. Continue stirring until the mix has thickened a little (not too much) and you can see ‘strings’ of gel hanging down from spoon – it will look a bit like egg white. This should take no more than 5-7 minutes.<\/li>\n
  4. Turn off the heat and tip the mix into the sieve over the bowl. (Note: put the saucepan into soak straight away, or it will be a nightmare to wash!)<\/li>\n
  5. Use your spoon to work the pale yellowish gel through the sieve (this works best while gel is still hot).<\/li>\n
  6. Wash up the saucepan and sieve!<\/li>\n
  7. Whip the cooling gel with immersion \/ stick blender until it’s white and fluffy.<\/li>\n
  8. Pour into bottles, allow to cool and then freeze.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You don’t have to whip the gel but it will make the gel easier to use & apply. Otherwise, the gel — which has the consistency of thick egg white — has a tendency to try and escape when you try to emulsify it between your hands!<\/p>\n

    Apply the gel to freshly washed, wet, hair, then dry & style as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My hair absolutely loves flax seed gel and I’ve been making it for the past year. The following recipe makes about 300ml of gel which I divide into four 100ml bottles and freeze. Each individual bottle — which is about 2\/3rds full — then defrosts and stays in the fridge for 2 weeks before the remains (if any) are discarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94],"tags":[93,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}