moominmolly: (skeptical-redhair)
Wow! I just wrote a really long post about baking soda and vinegar shampooing, which I tried out last night for the first time. But my network connection died, and I don't actually feel self-indulgent enough to write a treatise about washing my hair TWICE, so I'll sum up: while I haven't shampooed for at least three weeks, I had previously just been rinsing and massaging my head every day. Last night I tried a baking soda 'wash' and a conditioning vinegar 'rinse', and I have to say, it does everything they said it would do.

The baking soda clearly cleaned my hair, and after I rinsed it out, my hair felt so unpleasantly squeaky clean that I nearly put on normal conditioner. I stuck it out and did a dilute cider vinegar rinse, though, and this morning I have soft hair that feels like it was just shampooed. Kind of anticlimactic. So, I gotta say, if you're one of those people who's strongly committed to shampooing a lot (which is totally fine), but you're bored one night? Try washing with a tablespoon of baking soda in a cup of water and conditioning with a similarly dilute apple cider vinegar solution. I betcha it'll feel just like normal.

I find that I miss the SMELL of my conditioner -- I might try putting a few drops of an essential oil in the vinegar rinse next time. Other than that, well, it all worked surprisingly boringly well.

In other news, I desperately need a haircut, and I don't feel like doing it myself. Do you have a person you particularly like, who's local, good with superfine hair, and willing to use clippers and listen when I say that I don't want the girly fringey bits?

no-poo

Jul. 15th, 2010 10:51 am
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I don't have curly hair, but I'm still fascinated by the whole no shampoo movement. I had a friend who discovered in college that his hair was much easier to handle with no shampoo, but he confided this to me late, late at night when nobody else was around. It's okay, joe! There's a movement, now!

In the past, I've gone without shampoo for weeks/months when I have dyed hair; shampooing just felt too harsh. Normally, when my hair is brightly colored, I skip the lather and only use conditioner. However, I've had brown hair for six months now and I've been shampooing the whole time. (Side note: I've been using Lush solid shampoo and conditioner bars, which I love love love the smell of and which reduces the amount of plastic that enters the house. Love.)

Anyway, I recently decided to try no-poo with my regular hair. I'm about two weeks in, and sure enough, my hair is insanely soft, and it has body! My hair! Has body! I don't know why I'd never considered going shampooless with regular hair before, but it's actually working and that's delightful.

I know a lot of my friends have much more difficult to manage hair than I do - mine is thin and sparse and flat, but is easy to care for when I cut it in a style that suits it. So, it feels a bit spoiled to remove one of the only bits of hair care I actually keep up with. On the other hand, I love a good bit of self-experimentation!

Have you done this? Does it seem interesting, or horrifying? Have you experimented with long-term shampoolessness and then gone back, or do you still do it?

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