DRY SHAMPOOING

Natural Hair Care: Use natural Shampoo (Coconut oil is a good one or Dr. Bronner's Castle products) However, they are costly too, anything organic is and especially if it makes your look better, health, good for the environment and body.

Next time you run low on shampoo, don’t run out and buy another bottle. This

  is one of my favorite soaps.

1. The chemicals in mainstream hair-care products are bad for you.

Your skin is your body’s largest organ, and it’s absorbent, so if you think you’re safe from chemicals if you don’t eat them, think again. From sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium laureate sulfate (two dangerous detergents also used in engine degreasers) to propylene and butylene glycol (compounds used in photographic film processing), your skin is soaking up all kinds of toxins that

will eventually enter your blood stream. All these toxins can thin out the hair too.

Stick to this rule: If you wouldn’t put it in your mouth, don’t put it on your skin.

Visit the "Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep" to get the dish on the dirty little secrets your favorite shampoo has been hiding.

2. Living without hair-care products is economical.

It’s as simple as that. Shampoos and conditioners, even the cheap kinds, can cost a family of four a small fortune over the course of a year. If you’re a hair-care junky, and you can’t live without your $40 bottle of hair serum, the money you’ll save by ditching your high-end products will blow your mind and possibly save your bank account.

3. Chemical shampoos and products destroy your hair and scalp.

Your hair is greasy, so you take a shower and wash it with shampoo. The shampoo strips away all of your scalp’s natural oils. The next day, your hair is greasy again, and you shampoo again. The same problem keeps reoccurring day after day after day with no end in sight. You begin to think that you have a malfunctioning, over producing, oily scalp and that the only solution is more shampoo. This just feeds the oily problem making it worse. Human scalps naturally produce the right amounts of oils to nourish our hair. When we strip away those oils, our scalps get nervous and produce too much oil to compensate. Your shampoo could be making your hair more greasy rather than less so.

MAKING A CHANGE: 

One "Pinterest/blogger" recommended these simple steps:

  Combine one tablespoon of baking soda with enough water to make a paste.

  Work the paste into your roots only

  Massage the baking soda mixture into your entire scalp, paying special attention to grease-prone areas. Let sit for a minute, then rinse.

CONDITIONER: For an easy, natural conditioner, dilute two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with water and pour the mixture over the ends of your hair. Let sit for a minute, then

rinse. Don’t worry about carrying around a vinegar odor for the rest of your day; once your hair dries, any lingering scents should disappear.

Your hair and scalp probably aren’t used to such a clean routine, so you may experience a transition period, usually no longer than a few weeks, during which your hair is a little bit greasy. Your scalp will still be creating enough oil to compensate for the chemicals it’s used to, and it might take a short while for your body to realize that the fight is over. Once it does, your hair will be silky; it will grow healthier and longer and your body will repay you for the love.

The very costly, Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap every 3-4 days and have to use a lemon juice "conditioner" because we have rather hard water. It works too. As this may not work for everyone. As, it may remove too much oil then add an essential oil. They have this in B.S. in some salons to periodically remove build ups from all the products we use on our hair.

I like the peppermint castle soap and don't forget it's great for a body wash.

Commenter: Sandra

  I'm an African American woman who doesn't chemically straighten my hair and combined one tablespoon baking soda with enough Dr. Bronner's Baby Mild Liquid Castle soap to form a paste, massage through scalp and hair, rinse thoroughly. Condition with apple cider vinegar and warm water mixed with two drops each lavender, jasmine, and frankincense essential oils (to cut vinegar smell and stimulate scalp). I have been doing this for six years now and my hair is in great shape.

Trudi D;

Considering trying hair mud from this site They say there's a detox period for your hair, while the "mud" removes all the plastics and polymers that commercial shampoos leave. (http://www.terressentials.com/hairhelp.html )This maybe Spam??? I chose the one that was informational...