Baking Soda Shampoo- Does It Work for You?

I tried various non-shampoo hair washing options years ago. I had enough grease in my head to fry chicken.

Baking soda has occasional usefulness for hair, but used regularly it can lead to breakage, just has you have read. That damage is not repairable and has to grow out.

When I had that issue, I used the vinegar rinse alone, no baking soda. It was easy: 1 tablespoon vinegar in 1 cup of water put through my hair in lieu of conditioner after my regular shampoo.

I used this quite diluted version because I did not want to wash the color out of my hair. It worked and my color remained intact. I used it about once every 2 weeks. I liked it when my hair was short

Side note: now my hair is long and I had to change everything to keep it from getting dry so I no longer use this.

When I have a build up I do a vinegar rinse after washing my hair.
Half water and half vinegar (whtle or apple cider vinegar - either is fine).
I use it as a final rinse then towel dry my hair - by the time my hair is dry the vinegar smell is gone.
It leaves your hair very soft.
I've used baking soda and water - as a paste - on my scalp and hair - but only if I have an oily dandruff build up.
You can't do it all the time as it can dry your scalp out too much.

There are so many home made hair masks you can put on your hair!
Google it and just about anything in your cupboard can help your hair.

https://bellatory.com/hair/DIY-Organic-and-Natural-Homema...
https://www.pinterest.com/explore/hair-masks/

Rinsing your hair with beer (room temp) will give it more body.
Soaking your hair in olive oil or coconut oil and then washing it will help your hair too.
Have fun with it!

Never heard of that, although have tried vinegar as a rinse. Apple cider vinegar worked well if you do go that route.

Just to add - we get buildup from our pool and use the Neutrogena shampoo to remove build up. Works really well. We use once every couple of weeks for a day or two. Might be a problem for color treated hair.

I stopped using shampoo several years ago. I think I've used shampoo twice in all that time.

I use Dove conditioner. It's a white bottle with dark blue on it, extra conditioning or something.

I wet my hair then rub the conditioner on my head, just like I was scrubbing with shampoo. Then I rinse it out and do it again. I comb the tangles out then rinse again.

I was the rest of me afterwards and then I let my hair air dry most of the time. I have long curly hair that is wavy when it's long. When it's shorter and in layers it goes into natural curls, not kinky but loose curls.

Shampoo makes my scalp itch for days afterwards. So I had to find a way to not use it anymore.

I worked as a nurse's aid for several years and we did patient baths in their beds sometimes. We put LOTION in the water and wiped the patients with that. No soap. I asked the RN why we didn't use soap and she said that before soap was invented people cleaned with lotion like things and they did just fine.

Soap dries our skin and damages it to some extent. So I figured out that soap isn't the only thing we can do to clean our skin, and furthermore, our hair.

I have lovely hair. It's clean and has body and isn't anything like people expect it to be if I don't "wash" it.

Please just try it a few times and see for yourself. Wet, apply conditioner only, scrub your hair and scalp, rinse, repeat, rinse well. It's going to feel very soft and silky but if the conditioner is out then it's done.

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I have a friend who has dandruff and she only uses baking soda. Her hair looks normal to me so I'd say it works okay. I don't think she does the vinegar rinse every time but I don't know for sure.

i use clean shamoos, right now its garnier fructis natural clean or something.. its biodegradable and gets the oil out of my hair. but i have super oily hair and need something to get it all out or i look like a greasey head