Comments on: No more poo

By: BethTerry

BethTerry — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:39:15 +0000

@JennyTorgersen I do still use the “No Poo” method to clean my hair, and it still works great for me. My hair is generally at its best the 2nd day after I wash it because the first day, it tends to be frizzy. But that’s true even if I use shampoo. ACV is a great detangler. Some poeple even mix it with water in a spray bottle and use it as a spray-on “conditioner” even if they don’t wash their hair with baking soda.

By: JennyTorgersen

JennyTorgersen — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:07:30 +0000

Edit: When I said “After that it started feeling almost normal.” I meant at the end of my shower. It doesn’t feel quite as moisturized and slippery as conditioned hair, but almost. After it dries, it feels completely soft again.

By: JennyTorgersen

JennyTorgersen — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:05:22 +0000

Hello. I have been using BC and ACV for the past 6 weeks, and it’s been great. I think it helped that I didn’t wash my hair often to begin with, because through the process I haven’t had to wash my hair more then twice a week, except when I missed a spot. It’s a little harder to tell where I have gotten without the lather.

The first two times was really weird for me, because I felt like I was getting out of the shower without having conditioned; it had that dry icky feeling till I woke up the next morning (I take my showers at night). After that it started feeling almost normal.

Speaking of taking showers at night, I always had to rinse my hair in the morning to get rid of the dented mess caused by sleeping on wet hair. I don’t have to any more. And I do believe that my hair dries faster now. In addition to that, I work at a place where I have to wear a hat, I used to never take it off after work because the hat hair was always so bad;I don’t get ANY hat hair anymore, even on hot sweaty days.

I am curious though, if you are still using this method and how your hair is now. Of if anyone else has long term experience with it. I read that someone got brittle hair after a year or so. I have since slowly reduced the amount of BC from 1 Tbsp to 1tsp so I can prolong how long I use it.

By: topazdragon

topazdragon — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:20:51 +0000

my mother uses flax seed hair gel and it works really well for her and she has just above the shoulder medium hair. she boils the flax seeds for about 20 minutes.

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:51:55 +0000

@Anon, what was the ratio of water to baking soda and water to vinegar?

By: anon.

anon. — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:36:39 +0000

I tried “no ‘poo” for two months. I am in my early 20s with wavy brown hair. For the entire time I got really thick grease at the roots and lots of dandriff flakes; and I was breaking out like crazy. I ‘washed’ my hair every 3-4 days. I used diluted BS at the roots, rinse, then diluted vinegar on the rest of my hair.

Sometimes I would make a rosemary tea to put on my scalp that definately helped with the dandruff. But any recommendations as to why the ‘no ‘poo’ did not work for me, or at least how to cut the grease when going no ‘poo?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:01:27 +0000

@anonymous – olive oil makes a great moisturizer. Just a few drops or a bit more should do it. Ntoo much and it will take awhile to absorb

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2011 02:18:04 +0000

For about two weeks now I’ve been washing my hair with bs and using fresh lemon juice (it’s nice having a lemon tree in the backyard) as a rinse. My hair is very thick, coarse, a little wavy, and has serious bleach damage. After two weeks of no-poo my hair is still thick, coarse, and damaged… but I was amazed that something as simple and cheap as bs and free lemons could compete with the shampoo, conditioner, and glossing spray I was using before.

What I really wanted to comment about is my face washing regimen. For the past two weeks I’ve also been washing my face with bs and applying a moisturizer (from a plastic bottle… still not sure what I’m going to replace this with when it runs out). My skin is very oily to dry and flaky in my T-zone and I occasionally have horrifically huge zits on my jaw line. After two weeks of washing my face w/bs in the morning my skin looks smooth and less red/blotchy. The abrasiveness of the bs sloughs off dead skin meaning I’m less flaky and I have only had one outbreak on my jaw that cleared up after a couple of days.

Baking soda has not CURED all my beauty issues, but it certainly competes w/the pricey, contained in plastic products I was using before.

Anyone have a natural moisturizer they could recommend?

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:58:03 +0000

Rivs, how much baking soda do you use compared to water? I dilute 1 tablespoon baking soda in 1 cup of water. You might want to use even less baking soda. And it helps to use warm water. I don’t know why it would burn. You are using baking soda and not baking powder, right? (Just checking.)

I don’t know that vinegar will actually clean your hair. It’s possible that No Poo will simply not work for you. If you’re trying to get away from plastic containers, you could check out solid shampoo and conditioner bars. Let me know if you need more information.

By: Rivs

Rivs — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:16:29 +0000

So I decided to try this “no poo” routine, as of the 5th of this month. I’m pretty disappointed about the baking soda. At first I thought I was doing it wrong but after alternating whether I dissolved it in water, diluted it, used it as a paste, or used it dry, for 3 weeks, it’s only made my scalp burn and itch like all hell.
I decided to try using vinegar and water ONLY, today, to see if it would help.
Sure enough, my scalp doesn’t itch or burn when I play with it. It still itches from time to time, but nothing like the horrible urgent itching before. I also noticed my scalp sloughing a little when I scratched, even if lightly. I have scabs on my head from this.
I asked a question about it on Yahoo answers, but the people hanging out in the Alt Medicine category seem to all be teens and tweens asking about drug fixes, so I met a lot of abuse there for trying no poo =\
I’m not sure if vinegar and water alone is gonna be okay for my hair. Any ideas?My ACV rinse is 1/2 tbsp to 1 cup of water.