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Do start using Louise Marie Longhairs #18 SOS scalp oil right away, but ONLY just minutes before washing (never leave it on overnight unless specifically directed by LML, because that does something completely different.) Wash it out right away as to remove toxins it has loosened.

Pour some scalp oil into a dish and pat your fingertips into it as needed, cover with another dish if not all was used up. Ok...and scrub it into the scalp (not rubbing it in or on the hair like a dog, tunnel along instead.the hair) using a brisk scrubbing motion between the roots. Kind of like "flossing" around the base of the hair root like you do your teeth. But instead of strengthening your gums and teeth roots, SOS strengthens and stimulates your scalp and hair roots and plumps up the fats in the scalp! Here's how she does it:

1. Sit or stand whatever is better for your body /coordination- Sit down on the edge of a comfortable chair, and do not lean forward for the front, but do tilt sideways for the rest ...alternating sides, so your hair hangs down over your fingers (and horn comb for that matter) and practice to position your fingers facing away from you as if to play piano.
2. Dot - Put a turn from the bottle of Louise Marie Longhairs #18 SOS then share this with each of the four fingertips on each hand (not using your thumbs). ... adding more oil as you need or progress through troubled or blocked areas on your scalp. Louise Marie Longhairs can point these out to you when you see her;-)

   Q How much #18 Scalp SOS oil to use?
   A 6-10 applications... meaning apply once one tap of 3 fingers into the (coaster sized dish) for every two strips .. more and you are advised to double-treat problem areas or hot and/or flaky crunchy areas. anywhere you have frizzy or new growth, go over that area 3 times with oil. That area would likely include your parting and especially your swirly-crown at the top back of your head.

3. Start - Bring fingers up from the forehead into the front hairline cup fingers and scrub inching your way as smoothness is achieved, do this quite briskly (especially you newbies).Do it in stripes like a zebra, horizontally and dropping one inch lower each stripe... reapplying oil with each long scrubbie-stripe;-)

   note: Don't scrub in #18 scalp oil with fingers sliding/splaying sideways, we're not finger-painting-)

4. Scrub - Keeping your fingertips in a line, scrub thoroughly through crossing the top or the crown that swirls, by locking fingers together on this area each time you cross it....each time going 1" further down the skull and meeting at the crown again.. Picture a pattern when you segment an orange, or basketball... this is helpful. Use your nails lightly if appropriate keep reapplying an area on the spot when you do this though till you achieve smooth scalp.

   Playing the #18 Scalp SOS piano...Note When beginning your #18 Scalp scrub before washing... practice poising your fingers like you are about to begin to play a piano, fingers pointing away from you hands side by side. Then totally reverse your hands so that your fingers are pointed towards you but also keeping your baby-fingers and thumbs up and out of it, (not oiling them nor using them for this #18-ing) and those sides of your hands locked/fused together.

   Next begin #18-ing ...proceed to scrub in 1/4 inch increments along the middle of the top of the head, do this 3 times with one or two applications of the oil to the fingertips to our first strip in the session. When scrubbing down the centre head (our first strip in the session) keep the hands side-by-side sides as if locked/fused together, proceed to scrub along the middle of the top of the head both hands at the same time, do this 3 times with one or two applications of the oil to each of the 3 used fingertips. When scrubbing down the centre head (our first strip in the session) be sure to keep the sides of your hands together the full length of the hand, side-by-side the (karate-chop-area) of the hand area between the baby fingertip and the wrist. (it needs practice) Keep this position on the top high-spot and/or the parting so while scritching back towards the crown, until you actually reach and go past the dip or gulley in the crown, (over the edge, till nose is pointed and almost touching inner-elbows.... then past the curve gulley/bump/ridge cliff of the top of the head) then you can separate elbows and turn scrubbing inwards till fingers lock together. Only after connecting at the back and interlock-scrubbing is when the row you are working considered finished. You may then remove the fingers from the back and oil tips and start at the front again.

   note: Don't push on your head, keep your head steady, scritch scritch like as if you were to use the nails but not actually using nails. Move along in little1/4 inch scritches, inching slowly along as if one was searching for a pimple or blockages/pebbling in pores.

5. Turn — Turn the head while scrubbing, with hair still hanging towards the floor. Continue fingertip spreading and scrubbing until your entire scalp is treated and massaged.
6. Add more if needed —Continue scrubbing and your scalp will totally absorb and enjoy the SOS oil exchange in the pores. (If you need more, add more, but just do it a turn or two, tips on the top of the bottle and turn... at a time, no pouring no dropping drops on the scalp...you can use lots if needed, but just a little at a time.)

   note Scrub using both hands synchronized...scrub cupping the fingers, tips firm and 1/4" apart and while moving the whole hand forward and back. -How hard? You should be scrubbing with the hand/arm's weight in 1/2 inch brisk scritch-scritches... Practice practice... how long to scrub for? Well, Prince's song 'Let's Go Crazy' does it for me-)

   Check for dusty flakes (that cause buildup and tangling in the back and often the nape area) Dusties, (that look like parmesan cheese that comes in a shaker) that was not removed yet, by scratching the area with your nails and looking at them for dust. Re-oil-scrub the area. then #27 Chillout Spray to purify before washing it all out right away.

7. Shampoo — Unless otherwise instructed by Louise Marie Longhairs, wash out the SOS right away, with an LML shampoo. Wash four times or an extra 5th for shine and less frizz.. Enjoy.
8. Use #18 SOS ALWAYS AND DAILY, Louise Marie Longhairs INSISTS !! Do it every day just before cleansing! For best progress, use it 6-10 bottle turns or more, one application is on 3 tips per strip, little by little You can get by using a little because you use it very, very often. Even if you only have time for a quick, yet brisk massage, it's better than having no oil scrub at all!
9. For deep penetration, and remedial, then you can spray your #27 Chillout and wash it all out.
   
   WASH YOUR HAIR IN THE SAME PATTERN AS YOUR OIL IS DONE

   
   Thick hair pointers:

   • Softening the kink of the curls with the Kinder Brush, not only helps but it lifts the roots 'up' to be receptive to #18-ing. Otherwise, do the angle that you have to do to get the job done, leaning forwards is not necessary-) side-tilt into the scrub is beneficial.
   • using both hands synchronized...scrub cupping the fingers, tips firm and 1/4" apart and while moving the whole hand forward and back.
   • How hard? You should be scrubbing with the hand/arm's weight in 1/2 inch brisk flat-ish scritch-scritches... Practice practice...
   • How long to scrub for? Prince's song 'Let's Go Crazy' does it for me-)

   Check for dusty flakes (that cause buildup and tangling in the back and often the nape area) Dusties, (that look like parmesan cheese that comes in a shaker) that was not removed yet, by scratching the area with your nails and looking at them for dust. Re-oil-scrub the area.

10. For deep penetration, and remedial, then you can spray your #27 Chillout Spray and wash it all out.

WASH YOUR HAIR IN THE SAME PATTERN AS YOUR OIL IS DONE