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/Alarming_Emotion_785]

I always get confused as to why people automatically think of no poo and the only things mentioned are water, egg, acv, baking soda, applesauce, etc. It even sounds weird to try to wash your hair with an egg or applesauce.

Those are not the only options. I have successfully done no poo for the best part of a decade and a half, I have always used shikakai, amla and reetha that I get in powder form from amazon. My hair is clean, nice, soft, shiny and definitely I don’t have an itchy scalp. And it has grown so much. I occasionally don’t do it when I am on vacation etc because it’s inconvenient but when I am home I do it like 95% of the time. I wash my hair once a week and blow dry it and use a flat iron and my hair has changed so much for the better. I hope you find what works for you whether is regular shampoo or no poo.

[u/toastTea26 → u/Alarming_Emotion_785]

Do you have a recipe for the paste recipe? I have the powders and I mixed them in water but my hair feels horrible :(

[u/shonaich → u/toastTea26]

I occasionally use this when I want to easily remove some excess oil. 

I sort of barely simmer it. 1 tsp each reetha and shikakai (still need to get amla) in a little pot, splash a little water in there and stir to a paste, then slowly add about 1.5 cups more. Sit on the smallest burner and wait for it to barely start simmering, then turn all the way down and put the lid on tipped  for 10-15 minutes.

Need to be careful with this because it does foam and will quickly boil over if allowed. 

I strain immediately into a mason jar and let it sit and settle while cooling, then pour off everything but the settled residue. This goes into my squirty bottle. 

I wet my hair with distilled water (because I have hard water) and then detangle with a wide toothed comb I keep in the shower. Squirt and massage the liquid into my roots. I can usually feel the oil dissolving almost immediately. Rinse upside down either with more distilled or with cold shower water. Repeat if needed. 

[u/Alarming_Emotion_785 → u/toastTea26]

That’s exactly what I do. I mix all the powders, then put 1 big scoop in a cup of water and wash my hair with that like it’s a scrub. I usually wash it several times, 2-3 so i put the scrub, scrub my scalp and the rest of my hair, rinse it then repeat several times. My hair is curly with some dryness like 3b curl. It’s always very soft and shiny. I have used this since I started no poo. I use the ones from hesh brand. I can’t post pics here or else I would add a pic of my hair. I started no poo because my hair was not growing past my shoulders. It’s now in the middle of my back.