I actually do my scalp oil every night now. That wasn't true six months ago.

I had the castor oil. I had the rosemary. I believed in the routine. I just couldn't make myself do it consistently.

The routine I could never keep up with

I'd do it four nights in a row and then the baby would be up three times and I'd get into bed with wet hands and just not do it. Then I'd skip a second night. The bottle would migrate to the back of the shelf and I'd tell myself I'd start over Sunday. I never started over Sunday.

The thing I kept reading about, the consistent nightly scalp massage, the women who said they did it every single night for six months, I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. My routine was annoying. Oil on my fingers before I touched anything else. Running down my neck. Soaking into the towel I'd wrapped around my shoulders to protect my shirt. By the time I finished one section I was already thinking about the cleanup. It stopped feeling like self-care and started feeling like a chore.

A chore at 10pm after a full day with a baby is a chore that gets skipped.

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What was actually going wrong

Then I found a dispenser with hollow silicone tips. You press the tips against the scalp along the part and the oil releases right there, directly on the skin. Nothing runs. Nothing drips. A clear chamber with 1 to 4ml markings shows exactly how much goes in. One hand. Two minutes. Works with the oil I already had.

The first night I used it I thought: oh. This is what it's supposed to feel like.

What changed by week one

By the end of the first week I hadn't skipped a night. That had never happened. A few weeks in the routine was automatic, same as washing my face. Not because I'd become more disciplined. Because the tool I'd been using was wrong and this one isn't.