How to Be Shampoo Free

Make your hair shiny, bouncy, healthy, free from dirt and oil...WITHOUT shampoo or conditioner! You will never have to use shampoo and conditioner again! Watch out shampoo companies, you have been defunked.

Tried, tested, and true.

K-Funk style

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Baking Soda
• Water

1. 
    

   Take a tiny lesson in chemistry and clean your hair the simple way. With an acid and a base. Any kind of acid will do but I use Apple Cider Vinegar, it seems to be the hair friendliest. It leaves hair silky and smooth with curls being bouncy, shiny, and naturally separated.
   
   Two ounces of Apple Cider Vinegar is all you'll need in a cup or two of semi cold water. Once every three days maybe. Depending on how your hair feels.

2. 
    

   Sodium Bicarbonate..IE..Baking Soda. Simple as that..household baking soda will clean your hair better than any shampoo ever made.
   
   Two tablespoons Baking Soda in about two cups of water. Once every one to two weeks.
   
   The Baking Soda rinse is almost like real shampoo...it suds up a little and immediately softens your hair while cleansing. You can tell immediately how much better it feels. When done your hair feels bouncy, soft and light. Only once every two weeks is recommended but you can vary according to your individual needs.

3. 
    

   Rinse hair with Apple Cider Vinegar immediately following the baking soda. Use cool water and run the vinegar and water mixture over the scalp saturating the hair completely. Rinse the vinegar out with cool water.

4. 
    

   Final clue to the Rescue your Hair mission. Cool water! Never use HOT water on your hair, or hot anything for that matter. Cool water closes the cuticle on the scalp and smooths down the scales along the hair shaft.
   
   Always rinse in COOL water. Not freezing cold, just enough to smooth your hair.

Tips & Warnings

• Things to avoid: hot irons, blow dryers, hot air, hot sun, matches, small children with fire.
• When going to sleep put your hair in braids or inside a silk wrap to minimize breakage and tangles.
• You may need to supplement oil to the ends of your hair if you do not brush it with boar bristle regularly. Jojoba and olive oil are great choices. A couple drops rubbed into your palms is sufficient. Depending on your climate you may need more or less oil.
• Shampooing strips your scalp of the essential oil it needs and then your scalp goes into over production of oils in order to compensate.
• Conditioner was invented to cover up the damage done by our shampoo!
• Spread the word!

Resources

• 1 year No Poo trial with pictures!

[tomandjami]

on 7/31/2009 sounds interesting but I love love love my hair smelling good and its way too long to try this. Great article though I may have a friend with shorter hair try it.

[naturalpath]

on 3/27/2009 Interesting article. I will definitely try this..

[lmccray4]

on 3/13/2009 interesting Great article thanks for sharing 5* and recommendation

[lynnhsmomof2]

on 3/13/2009 Very interesting!!! I may have to give this a try. 5* and adding to my favorites.

[SchoolOfLife]

on 3/12/2009 Great article, well written too! Thanks, keep them coming! :)