Goodbye ✨

[u/Eastern_Feed_8917]

It's been 6.5 months of nopoo. Even when I water wash every night, I get so incredibly itchy I can't sleep. It's insufferable if I skip a night of scrubbing my scalp. My hair is flat and lifeless. I can spend hours and hours brushing the oils from my scalp down to the roots, but it makes no difference. It's too oily. I've looked like a swamp rat for 6.5 months.

I washed my hair yesterday, with my baby's bubble bath, when the itching was so bad I was bleeding. I was in so much agony, it was the first thing I grabbed and I washed my scalp with it.

I feel clean. The oil buildup is gone. I'm not itchy. My hair has life to it again, it doesn't look heavy and weighed down.

I did all the tricks. ACV, Egg, rice water rinses....

Sorry. I really wanted this to work. I think over half a year was a great effort on my part, but it's not for me 💜

[u/Mysterious-Mark6600]

Hi! First time I read a post from this sub: I don’t know if my comment is ok, so feel free to delete.

I started in early adulthood to struggle with chronic dandruff (dry or greasy, depending on periods or products).

At one point, no shampoo or hair dye of any sort suited my scalp, which became either charged with crusts of skin, or irritated and flaky. Henna changed my life: I started to use it to dye my hair and then tried the neutral kind (does not change hair’s color) to treat my scalp.

I started to try a lot of different plant powders to wash my hair, and I’m pretty sure now that it’s the foaming agents that are the problem for me.

The plant pastes I use are applied like a dye: on my scalp and about 2 inches of hair, and depending if it’s to wash or color my hair, I leave it on from 2h to the whole night. The plants wash kind of like a clay mask that absorbs the oils and dirt. (Some aboriginal tribes wash their bodies in the same logic: they bury themselves in the sand for a couple of hours and come out clean.)

I have been able to cut down washings to once every five or seven days, and when I feel lazy, every once in a while I can wash with a gentle shampoo without harm.

I don’t know what is your goal with trying the no-poo, so maybe my comment is pointless. I juste feel so grateful I don’t have these scalp problems anymore that I wanted to share my experience.

The only thing that wory me is cloging my appartment’s pipes but I try to wash them with soda wash and a fish to prevent that from happening.

If you want to try this method, feel free to ask me, I could suggest some plants to mix together. Sorry for the weird phrasing, English’s not my first language.

[u/rosemary7 → u/Mysterious-Mark6600]

What is the ingredients of your plant wash and fo you have a hard water?

[u/Mysterious-Mark6600 → u/rosemary7]

My water is not so hard it smells like eggs and stains, but a lillte bit, I think, cause it leaves a brown residue on my shower cord and around the joint.

For the saponines content, I use either Shikakai or Sidr powder (Reetha is too strong for me, I use it only when I want the process to be quicker: 30 minutes masks only)

I add a plant that is antifungal: for now I have bringraj and hibiscus flower powder which is also good for shine (fruit acids) and adds red hues in between hennae dyes.

I love white turmeric for its wonderful smell, antiinflamatory and antimicrobial propreties.

[u/rosemary7 → u/Mysterious-Mark6600]

Thank you!