No ‘poo experiment: Week 4

WEEK 4

Day 1 (Sunday): Water-only. Dr. Bronner’s Lavender Hair Creme. Hair looks pretty good.

Day 2 (Monday): Water-only. Kiss My Face styling mousse. Hair looks pretty good, a bit oily around the forehead and above the ears. It rained twice today, but I noticed no significant frizz.

Day 3 (Tuesday): Water-only. Dr. Bronner’s Lavender Hair Creme. Hair looked OK early in the day, but became flat and looks greasy by the end of the day.

Day 4 (Wednesday): Dr. Bronner’s eucalyptus soap (diluted), followed by Dr. Bronner’s Citrus Hair Rinse. A bit of styling mousse topped with a dab of lavender hair creme. Hair seems cleaner, curls are cohesive and frizz-free. Scalp still seems waxy.

Day 5 (Thursday): Water-only. No product. Hair looks kind of messy, blah.

Day 6 (Friday): Water-only. Styling mousse. Hair is just dull and waxy. After lunch, I donned a headscarf to cover it up.

Day 7 (Saturday): Wash with Dr. Bronner’s eucalyptus liquid soap (NOT diluted). Rinse with Bronner’s Citrus Hair Rinse. Really scrubbed my scalp with my fingertips. FINALLY, my hair feels clean. A dab of lavendar hair creme, just on the ends. Hair looks really good, for once!

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No ‘poo experiment: Week 3

WEEK 3: No ‘poo experiment

Day 1 (Sunday): No wash.

Day 2 (Monday): Water-only. Use Kiss My Face styling mousse. Looks good: shiny, bouncy.

Day 3 (Tuesday): Water-only. Styling mousse. Looks good. BUT I keep catching a little whiff of dirty hair (hey, it’s been 100-plus-degrees for a week, and I do sweat).

Day 4 (Wednesday): Try the A Wild Soapbar again, followed by ACV rinse. Styling mousse. Looks fine. Feels hella waxy/coated. I guess the ACV just isn’t for me.

Day 5 (Thursday): Water-only. Styling mousse, dash of Aloe 80 spray.

Day 6 (Friday): Water-only. Dr. Bronner’s Lavender Styling Creme.

Day 7 (Saturday): Wash with diluted Dr. Bronner’s Eucalyptus castile soap. Rinse with Dr. Bronner’s Citrus conditioning rinse. In the shower, the conditioning rinse made my hair feel heavy and silky. Very nice. No styling product–a departure for me.

Week 3 Hair (ignore the angry eyes)

Week 3 Hair, Crown still seems dry

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No ‘poo experiment: Week 2

WEEK 2: No ‘poo experiment

Day 1 (Sunday): Wash with A Wild Soapbar Cedarwood soap. Ingredients: Ingredients: saponified cold pressed olive, coconut, organic palm, & castor oils, distilled water, essential oils (fir needle, cedarwood, bay, orange), moroccan red clay, calcium bentonite clay, organic paprika, sea salt, wild cedar wood. Rinse with ACV. Lavender spritz. Hair looks OK. Soft, but curls are a little frizzy.

Day 2 (Monday): Water-only. Lavender spritz, a drop of jojoba oil. Hair looks OK, not great.

Day 3 (Tuesday): Water-only. Aloe 80 spray, lavender spritz. Hair looks OK, not great. Feels crunchy, dry.

Day 4 (Wednesday): Water-only. Curls on top layer look all right. Underneath layer is stringy, oily.

Day 5 (Thursday): Rinse with Pomegranate Goji Berry Green Tea. Eh. Still just “coated”, waxy.

Day 6 (Friday): I break down and use my Burt’s Bees Super Shiny Grapefruit & Sugar Beet shampoo (No sulfates, 98.8% natural, they claim). Spritz with lavender. Hair feels quite nice. Really tight curls.

Day 7 (Saturday): No wash. Wet hair in sink. Use Kiss My Face styling mousse. Hair looks pretty good, bouncy.

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No ‘poo experiment: Week 1

WEEK 1: No ‘poo experiment

(Previous week had switched to conditioner-only Curly Girl routine, which left my roots too greasy and my ends too crunchy)

Baking soda and apple cider mixes are 1 T to 1 C water.

Day 1 (Sunday): Washed with baking soda mix, rinsed with apple cider vinegar. Spritzed with Aloe80 styling spray. Scalp feels very clean. Hair is normal (used a bit too much styling spray).

Day 2 (Monday): Warm water only. Spritzed with Aloe80 styling spray. Scalp still feels pretty clean. Hair seems dry, crunchy (maybe too much styling spray?).

Day 3 (Tuesday): Apple cider vinegar rinse, cold water rinse. A dab of grapeseed oil distributed through the hair (not near the roots), followed by lavender spritz (adapted from Curly Girl: distilled water w/ lavender essential oil). Once dry, hair is soft, curls are shiny. Feels clean. Overall, excellent. Even by late afternoon, little to no frizz or curl separation. NIGHT: Hair still feels a bit dry. Applied some Burt’s Bees Apricot Baby Oil to sleep in overnight.

My curly hair on Day 3 of the no 'poo regimen.

Day 4 (Wednesday): BS/ACV and lots of scrubbing and combing. Lavender spritz. Can tell I didn’t get all the oil out, but it still looks decent, a bit limp. Feels quite soft and untangled.

Day 5 (Thursday): Oops, I forgot to write down this day. Water-only, I think.

Day 6 (Friday): Water-only. Feeling pretty greasy and little bit limp, though the curls still looking pretty good and cohesive.

Day 7 (Saturday): No wash.

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