I just washed my hair with baking soda and water since I left all of my other ingredients at my gfs house and my hair doesnt really look/feel that clean like it does when I use all of the deep cleanse. When using just baking soda and water is there a proper way to wash your hair? I just mixed it up in a bowl and poured it over my head and rubbed it in real good and then rinsed a little. Should I rinse more and maybe that would help but I didnt think rinsing more would make it look or feel any cleaner. So does anyone else just use b soda and water and hows it make your hair look/feel?
i use it because my hair is oily, it really helps it by drying it out but not to an extreme point my hair feels fine/clean when i use it, i tried using bronners and baking soda but it made my hair feel greasy so i just use baking soda
i to have been using baking soda for quite a while now. i just get a teaspoon of it and dump it in a old shampoo bottle and fill it with water and shake it up real good. then once my hair is wet in the shower ill just dump some of the baking soda water on it, and rub it in, and ill do that all over my head. its a bit of a pain to rinse it out sometimes but it leaves me feeling clean
Adding some vinegar or lemon juice would definitely help. I usually soak my hair and wrap a towel around it and wait for 30 minutes to an hour and then rinse my hair.
I've tried a bunch of different ways. I tried the deep cleanse and maybe I'm not using enough of some of the ingregiants but I just don't feel like it does much to my hair. And my hair kind of feels heavy afterwards. So I went into one of my favourite shops, LUSH (homemade soap shop) and they have these shampoo bars that come in all different scents and for every hair type. They are totally natural and you just use it like you would soap. My hair feels soooo good afterwards!
i'm going to have to try the tea tree oil bronners thing soon i've heard good things about it for oily hair
I usually use just about a 1/4 cup baking soda in a mixing bowl filled with warm water and a few drops of essential oils. I pour the whole thing over my head several times, scrubbing my scalp, throw it up in a towel and rinse 15-30 minutes later. This has done wonders for my hair/scalp instead of using Dr. Bronner's. Then again, I have disgustingly hard well water in a city, so Bronner's leaves me coated in soap scum no matter how much rinsing I do. It also causes my scalp to itch really bad and the psoriasis around my forehead flares up. Make sure you don't use a shitload of baking soda. It'll stay in your hair even after a good rinse.
Many Lush shampoo bars do indeed contain SLS as they are hard shampoo rather than a normal soap; prairieland and charginvalley soaps are two companies that make shampoo bars which do not contain SLS. However, most any handmade soap will work. I highly, highly, highly recommend Indigo Wild Zum bars; they have a sea salt one that is the next best thing to the ocean for dreadies.
