"Proof" Picture
I just recently started No 'Poo, about 2 weeks ago. Before diving in, I too desperately wanted to see photos of people, to know that their hair looked good! Everyone talked about it being great for their hair, but I wasn't seeing any proof. I did however, decide to go for it anyways, and so far I have had great results! Here is what I have done, and here is a photo of my hair:
I washed my hair the first time with baking soda (just put some in my hand once my hair was wet, and applied it all over my scalp and rubbed it in. This wasn't very easy since it was a powder. Then once I did that, I washed it off, and then put apple cider vinegar on it, mostly by dipping my hair into a cup of it and then trying to apply it all over my hair, but not really getting it on the roots. (just like when I used the baking soda, I tried not to get it on the ends). Then I washed that out. It was fun and interesting, and my hair dried with a lot of volume and curl. It looked pretty good, and not oily. Although it felt a little oily to the touch.
The second rinse was a few days later, I washed with baking soda and apple cider vinegar again. It went over ok, about the same as before. But maybe felt a little more oily.
The the third time, I was feeling like my hair was really oily and I felt yucky, although I had my husband smell my hair and he said I didn't stink! So I tried just washing with baking soda, but this time I mixed it with some water and put it in a spray bottle. That way I could easily apply it everywhere, and I read about how if you use less then it works better than using too much baking soda. So I tried that, and skipped the apple cider vinegar since it is supposed to be like "conditioner" and I thought my hair was too oily, so I was trying to dry it out. This didn't work very well. My hair looked and felt gross, totally oily. But it was interesting, because it didn't look oily at the roots, just all over the hair, but it also somehow looked dry too. And when I brushed my hair upsidedown, then it would get really big, so it was like it had a ton of volume though. That wasn't what I was used to, because when I use shampoo and it gets oily, it gets really thin and looks wet. Anyway, I began to wonder how this was going to work.
Well, then I found another idea, to mix 1 egg+1tbs vinegar+1tsp honey. That is what I did for "shampoo", and then I did a about a tablespoon or two of vinegar in one cup of water with a few drops of essential oil for the "conditioner". So I tried it out, and it was great!!! Since my results weren't so great in the past, I didn't feel like taking any photos. But I had to take photos of my hair now, since it looked great! It looked just like it normally does when you shampoo, but there was a difference. My hair felt softer, like it has in the past when I put some of the Aveda hair cream that my sister got me for Christmas. And normally when I straighten my hair, the hairs seem to cling together, but my hair seemed to flow easily, not cling together. (its kind of hard to describe my observations).
Here is a photo after 2 weeks of no poo.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_xnQfpms-wWg/...2+weeks_00.JPG
My hair is really dry, though, so that might not help.
So, I was really sceptical that this would work for me.
: but I will take a few photos once I have!
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