nopoo week 3 (yes, it makes me giggle every time too)

[moominmolly]

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

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[cuthalion]

That's kind of like Daredevil, the blind superhero whose power is that his other senses are so keen it's like he's not blind!

[pekmez]

I like Carlo at salon CU in ball square. My hair is superfine and he groks it.

[starphire]

Wow, that's awesome. I'm glad it works so well for you. My first thought is "Well, it's easy if you have short hair". But then I remember all the folks at the lj longhair community who are happy with no-poo and realize maybe I'm running out of excuses here, not to try it.

[moominmolly]

Try it! I mean, try the baking soda wash and vinegar rinse part and see how you feel the next day. It's super easy, and I have baking soda and cider vinegar downstairs if you're out. :)

I think that in reality I have *bad* hair for the no-poo thing -- people I know who are into it seem to have thick, long, curly hair. But hey, it works so far!

[artricia]

Is the baking soda/vinegar wash pretty strong? Will it cut through oily hair crud?

[moominmolly]

It did for me the other day. Note surrealestate's problems in another comment -- maybe worth making sure you definitely do the vinegar rinse!

[surrealestate]

So I'd been semi-poo for a bit, anyway, and since I'm almost out of poo, I thought I'd give the baking soda a try today.

Disaster! First I was confused by how I could wash my hair with the mix in the first place, since that dilute, it was still pretty much like water. But I gave it a go, pouring half of it over my head and trying to massage it in, then doing the rest. I wasn't sure if it really got all over. Is there a trick to this?

Then I rinsed. And rinsed. And rinsed. And my hair still felt like it weighed a ton and felt dirty like it hadn't been washed in ages. I rinsed more, no dice. It was like my hair and scalp were coated in a thin layer of concrete. So I thought, maybe it just needs conditioning... Tried some conditioner, but it just exacerbated the issue.

After 10 or 15 minutes, I finally washed with some diluted shampoo and joy! It was like a 5-lb weight fell off of my head. My hair felt lighter and silkier and no longer stayed in place if I bent it.

So, uh, any thoughts on what I did completely wrong here

[moominmolly]

Wild! Maybe it was too much soda? My hair felt sticky before I did my vinegar rinse, and I could see the extreme version of that feeling like concrete. Next time I wash, I'm going to try just the vinegar rinse to see how it goes. I liked the feel of that part a whole lot more!

[moominmolly]

Indeed, I tried again last night with less baking soda in the baking soda wash, and it had less of that sticking-to-itself feeling.