Poo, week 2

Ya’ll, baking soda is AMAZING!

I told you last week I was going to wash my hair with baking soda water. I was certain I’d need a full box to get all this grease out. I was totally wrong! I mixed about 1/4 cup with warm water in a mug while I was showering and scrubbed it into my hair intending to rinse and repeat to infinity. Imagine my shock when during the scrubbing and subsequent rinsing the grease in my hair just disappeared! When I rinsed that first dose out my hair was absolutely, completely clean!

Now, to be fair a day later it was starting to grease up again. At the end of the week now it’s still gross and oily. But, it’s not as bad as last week. Not even close. I’m planning on washing again tonight to see what happens. At this point I’m certain I’m going to carry this thing through. It’s been remarkably easy to get used to not shampooing. It’s frustrating to have greasy hair still but since there’s evidence of improvement I’m going to push forward. Honestly I’m getting excited about the possibilities!

Poo, week 1

Guys. My hair is. GROSS.

Right now the top of my head feels like I gave it a paraffin wax but never peeled the wax away. I had NO IDEA my head could produce this much oil. It’s not slick oil either. It’s greasy and stiff. When I can get a brush through my hair I can brush it straight up and IT WILL STAY THAT WAY! I’d thought I would include pictures of this experiment but after the first week, no way!

The thing I’m most startled at is that the oil is not really just on my scalp. It’s like it’s moved down down down to the very edges. The scalp is the worst, but it’s as if there’s so much oil it couldn’t all stay at the top of my head. It’s as if it’s slowly gooped down to the edges.

I realize this description is gross, sorry about that. I’m being honest. Tonight after the kids are in bed I’m going to try washing it with some baking soda water. I know that when I did let my hair get greasy before it took me 2 or 3 times of shampooing it to get it clean. Who knows how much baking soda I’ll need to use? Hopefully not more than an entire box! I’ll let you know next week how it goes.

Poo

Today, I shampooed my hair for the last time. I hope.

I’m not going all hippy or anything, well, at least I don’t consider this a hippy measure. It’s a decision born of desperation. My hair is a goopy, oily, mess every 8 hours. Every time I wash and dry my hair a clock starts ticking. I’ve got about 8 hours before my scalp has produced more oil than necessary. I look at my friends hair with envy, their hair is thick or wavy or whatever, it looks CLEAN even the 2nd day! They can shower before bed and skip out the door with a mere brushing. Sigh.

Anyway, I got fed up with this mess a few weeks ago and started to do some reading. Over the years my shampoos have become harsher and harsher to strip my hair of all that gross extra oil. And, it works for a while… I may get 3 weeks of fairly normal hair before it all falls apart again. At this point I’ll be pouring bleach on my head in a year or so. I don’t want that!

Imagine my surprise when I found that other people with my problem have gone to a ‘no poo’ system. No poo means they don’t use shampoo AT ALL! EVER! From what I’ve read the first week or two is going to be bad, really really bad. But, eventually my scalp will get the message that it doesn’t have to make all that extra oil and it will stop. So, I’m going to try it. Honestly what do I really have to loose?

If you’re reading this post then I’ve come to some sort of conclusion about this no poo thing. I felt really bad about the milk thing when I didn’t finish it. One of my biggest pet peeves with people is when they say they’re going to do something and then they don’t do it. So, I’ve not really told anyone I’m doing this. Well, I mean I’ve told a few of my girlfriends and Scott of course. I need them to tell me if I’m completely insane. They already think I might be, but this has not set me over the edge in their minds so I take it as a good sign.

No poo. We’ll see how it goes! I’ll update you after the first week is over.