Shampoo has not touched my scalp since July 5th.
There are a number of reasons for why I have gone sans shampoo, and here are a few:
- less plastic waste for the world
- no more putting chemicals on my skin for which we do not really know what it does
- less use of products with petrolium in them (and the plastic bottle)
- save $ (lately I've been buying $8 - $10 bottles of shampoo and conditioner)
- get my scalp back to normal... aka not stripping it completely of natural oils so that it has to over compensate by over producing oil. Thus making it possible to not have to wash it every day.
- hopefully, get more body to my hair
- hopefully, it will hold curls that I attempt to put in it
There were also a few articles about going no-shampoo on line that convinced me to take this on:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-394226/Could-survive-shampoo.html
http://www.naturemoms.com/no-shampoo-alternative.html
So, what you may wonder, do I do with my hair?
Well, I wash it with about a heaping tablespoon of baking soda and a cup of water. I pour is slowly over my head and scrub for a while. Then I pour about 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar into water, and pour that all over my hair. I let it stay in there for about a minute, then rinse lots.
So far, I see that my hair doesn't need to be washed every day. I can get by without washing for 2 days now. Also, I see that my hair has much more lift than it did before. I have very straight hair, and now it has more "body" to it.
On the score of keeping curls, so far I've had no luck. I have hot rollers that I've used once since going no-shampoo. The curls looked great for about an hour. Then the curls completely fell out.
I think that this is a new routine that I'll be keeping.
looks like you need more product to get those curls to stay in :),
ReplyDeletei admire your will power to stick with this challenging way of washing your hair. (I say challenging, because you probably have to bring these items into the shower with you from the kitchen every time you do this and then measure.)
funny you bring this up. i use a $16 bottle of No-Poo, which is a shampoo without the lather (hence the "no-poo"). i've always used shampoo as minimally as possible (usually 1 or 2 x a week) but this No-Poo is a small (but expensive) bottle of awesomeness. brigette convinced me to get it. my hair retains the curls and its natural oils (since it is the lather that dries out the hair) and I don't need to use as much product post shampoo. i still only use it 1 or 2 x a week and it lasts a long long time.
Really clean hair doesn't hold curls. Try curling when your hair isn't totally clean (a day or two after washing). If that still fails, lots of really cheap gel (like Dep), put in before curling, will make anything stay... as I discovered in theater.
ReplyDeleteBut I suspect the new do doesn't really need curling.