Comments on: No more poo

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.

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:50:21 +0000

Oh and I have long white/asian girl hair :-)

The waxy hair that happens when I use the lye soap on all of my hair actually helps keeps my hair in braids and such.

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:47:31 +0000

I tried the baking soda and vinegar thing a year or two ago. It was good for a week but then my hair got oily. Now I know that if I would’ve stuck it out it would’ve been all right in the end!

I started using natural shampoo (just random things from Whole Foods) and even that is a million times better than regular brands of shampoo. I only had to wash my hair every other day and it felt lighter.

These days I use my own homemade lye soap on my roots, rinse and spray vinegar on my hair out a repurposed spray bottle. If you use the lye soap on all of your hair it gets really waxy. The roots are clean and nice, but the rest gets weird. Thats why I only use it on my roots. Works great. In between washes whenever my hair gets too oily I use baby powder to freshen up.

By: Karla

Karla — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:42:11 +0000

I’ve been trying the no poo method for about a week and a half. Its been great for my scalp – unlike some posters, my hair hasn’t been as oily as usual. The trouble I’m having is the length of my hair (I have long, fine hair and an oily scalp) is getting dried out. I tried putting a few drops of Vit E oil or an essential oil in the ACV mix, and it doesn’t help at all. Any suggestions? I really want this method to work for me too! :)

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:08:27 +0000

I just used the baking soda wash and vinegar rinse method for the first time, as I am forever on the search for all natural products to shampoo my hair with. I have to say my hair is naturally wavy/curly, kind of dry but a great tendancy to be oily at the crown, and fine. After using 1 tbsp baking soda into 2 cups of water to wash with, I rinsed with 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar into 2 cups of water to rinse with and my hair has never looked so shiny, felt so soft, or had so much volume. I havent gotten results this nice from many professional products. It is really quite amazing. Like I said this was my first time so I will continue to see the results.