Cider vinegar and bicarbonate of soda

[ailbhe]

I tried a few different solid shampoos from not-Unilever-etc suppliers, and none of them rinsed out of my hair properly. Not even the Lush one. The Lush one with conditioner was ok, but it refused to rinse out fully, always left a residue that I could detect.

So I gave up and, rather than going back to Dove, went to baking soda wash with a vinegar rinse. And from the first wash, my hair was not sticky, easy to comb, and clean-feeling.

I meant to look up how I ought to be doing it somewhere, but in the end I just made up a random paste of baking soda and water, and a random solution of vinegar and water, and rubbed the former into my hair and rinsed it out with the latter.

It's great. The only possible downside is that washing my hair takes a little longer than it used to with regular shampoo, but it's quicker than rinsing out the solid shampoos, so that's ok. I shower fast anyway. Oh, and it may be contributing to the dry skin on my scalp and hands, but I'm not sure about that, that could just be pregnancy.

I was a bit worried that massaging the paste into my very fine, very thick hair would be Too Hard, but it wasn't. And the bicarb makes a nice facial exfoliant too; my face is softer and smoother and not drying out, where before it was rough and spotty. That's pregnancy too.

I'll need some convincing to go back to using shampoo, I think. I'm a happy hippie sometimes :)