DIY Shampoo

 

I ditched poisonous shampoo! Most commercial shampoos contain SLS (Sodium Laurel,-eth Sulphate) or Parabens and formaldehyde agents, even so called organic shampoos contain betaine and decyl glucoside. Are these things really necessary? No, they are not. 

After doing a lot of research into how to wash my hair without shampoo, I settled on baking soda scalp scrub and apple cider leave-in rinse. It worked great! It is 2 tablespoons of baking soda in a cup of water. The vinegar rinse is 2 tablespoons of vinegar in a cup of water. If you have long hair, do not rub the baking soda into it, just let it hang. Put the baking soda wash on your scalp and finger massage it in. Then rinse very thoroughly. Pour on the vinegar, coating all the strands of your hair. You can use 4 tablespoons of vinegar in 2 cups of water if your hair is very long. Don't rinse again, just leave the vinegar rinse in your hair.

The smell is not there when it is dry. Wrap in a towel to wring out the water, then style as usual. The vinegar smell will disappear when it dries. My hair is clean, not the least bit oily. It's soft without that straw feel it would have if I put just baking soda on it or washed it with my handmade soap bars. Soap is too alkaline for human hair, as is baking soda, so the vinegar rinse, left in, is necessary to fix that. If you don't use the vinegar rinse, your hair will feel like straw. I have thick, dry, coarse and gray hair and I'm completely happy with this. My hair is even better, it's straighter, calmer, not so flyaway. If this works with baking soda, which is extremely alkaline, it should work with my handmade soap too. I'll try that next time, I'll wash with my handmade herbal soap and use the leave in apple cider vinegar rinse! Either way, the shampoo is gone and no conditioner needed either! If nothing else, it's certainly cheaper! I like it and I'm sticking with it. One more chemical laden poison gone from my house!!