Aletha
Member
I became curious about the movement toward not using shampoo to cleanse your hair. It's not that you don't clean it if you don't use shampoo, you just use natural products. What you do it make a solution of baking soda and water until it feels "slick". Place it in a bottle like a ketchup or mustard bottle that has the nozzle that you can use to put the solution down to the roots on your hair. When you shower, wet your hair well and then shake the bottle up until the baking soda is distributed in the water. Then, squirt it down among the roots of your hair. Gently give yourself a scalp massage. It won't feel like shampoo but your hair will feel clean when you rinse it out. Be careful not to wad your hair up like you would if you shampoo as you want very few tangles. You can use a diluted cider vinegar rinse on your hair after this if you wish.
The principle is not to strip the oils and natural substances the hair and scalp produce to protect your hair. Commercial shampoos strip everything from your hair and scalp and you have to then use cream rinse to put those oils and substances back which then prompt the scalp to overproduce oils to replenish that which has been stripped away. It may take weeks to months for your scalp to stop producing so much oil to replenish your natural oil which has been stripped away. Eventually, this will allow you to stretch out the number of cleansings you have to do. It's amazing and your hair will eventually be stronger and healthier and will have natural bounce that it should have. I highly recommend it. So far this has allowed my hair to have the natural wave I was born with. My hair looks so healthy and feels so much better.
The principle is not to strip the oils and natural substances the hair and scalp produce to protect your hair. Commercial shampoos strip everything from your hair and scalp and you have to then use cream rinse to put those oils and substances back which then prompt the scalp to overproduce oils to replenish that which has been stripped away. It may take weeks to months for your scalp to stop producing so much oil to replenish your natural oil which has been stripped away. Eventually, this will allow you to stretch out the number of cleansings you have to do. It's amazing and your hair will eventually be stronger and healthier and will have natural bounce that it should have. I highly recommend it. So far this has allowed my hair to have the natural wave I was born with. My hair looks so healthy and feels so much better.