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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