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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Day three no poo

Update, it's the end of day three of the no shampoo experiment.  So far, so good.  My hair feels great, I notice my bangs are slightly greasy at the end of the day.  Nothing too excessive, but my hair tends to be a bit dry, not oily. I don't really smell anything, I smell a bit of vinegar and the essential oils when my hair is wet.  Once it's dry, I can't smell the vinegar, so that's good. I think I'll stick with it for now.

Monday, July 08, 2013

No Poo Experiment

No, not that kind of poo.  No shampoo!

About 8 months ago I first heard about people who stopped using shampoo and conditioner. Not crazy looking homeless people, but normal people.  Around that time I started to using Dr. Bronner's soap as a shampoo.  That lasted maybe a week, it made my hair feel awful, like straw. I think it was just to drying for me, although other people rave about it. I still love Bronner's as a body wash or cleaner, just not as a shampoo.  I went back to normal shampoo and conditioner for the last several months.

Lately I keep coming across blogs, youtube videos and pages on Pinterest about going poo free.  I did a bit more reading, and it seeemed doable.  You might be wondering why would I want to stop using shampoo and conditioner anyways?  Well it seems silly that I eat as organic as I can etc etc, but then put crazy chemicals on my head everyday.  I probably wouldn't have even thought of it, but I have to read the ingredient labels on my hair products because wheat is often added as an ingredient.  It got me thinking that shampoo and conditioner are chemical bombs. 

When I first looked into no poo, I came across a vlogger that only used water, nothing else.  That just seemed crazy.  Wouldn't your head start to smell?  Isn't that how you grow dreadlocks?  Then I came across bloggers that used vinegar and baking soda.  This instantly brought to my mind images of vinegar and baking soda volcanoes.   Turns out, you don't mix the two.  She recommended diluted baking soda for the scalp to degrease and diluted vinegar as a rinse.  Hmmm, is that going to make me smell like vinegar? A few blogs later I read that you can add essential oils to the vinegar/water solution to smell yummy... and I was sold.

Now silly me, I have heaps of shampoo and conditioner on hand.  But no time like the present! I am home sick today anyways, so might as well do a test run.  I thought my hair would be impossible to comb through like the Bronner's experiment,  but my hair brushed through as though I had used Pantene.  Feels, soft and clean, with a hint of vinegar scent-guess I didn't rinse well enough.  I think it also brightened up the red hair dye, but it could also be my imagination.  I'll keep going with this for a bit and see how it goes. Apparently it takes a while for your scalp to adjust, it will produce too much oil for the first couple of weeks before the glands adjust.  Stay tuned... 

If you are intersted in learning more, follow my 80-10-10 board on Pinterest or see this blog http://www.livingthelifefantastic.com/2013/01/shampoo-free-faq/

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Yarrow


Came across a field of yarrow.  There were so many bees that I could hear the buzz over the music in my headphones.  

It's a fantastic garden so far this year.