Sunday, April 27, 2008

On the hair front: Went to Tempest's belly dance workshop looking like a stringy-haired hippie. Came home and realized baking soda is next to godliness. Note to self: Do not go more than three days without doing this baking soda rinse, and cut back on the apple cider vinegar, which might be causing greasiness.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
No’Poo Day Seven

It's been more than one week since I used commercial shampoo. One really bad gnarly hair day over the weekend, but other than that it looks probably better than it usually does in the humid weather, and certainly no worse. The baking soda scrub twice a week seems like it will work out fine, for now. I hear these tales of people only having to do the baking soda thing once a month, and having hair as radiant and silky as a baby's with this beauty regimen. We'll see how it goes. I don't plan to cut back the baking soda to once a week unless I am absolutely certain that I won't be walking around looking like Ethan Hawke, for pity's sake.

I'm going to try a white vinegar rinse instead of apple cider vinegar, as the acv can cause greasiness, and it seems i won't need to rinse with vinegar every week anyway.

This has been a great way to use up leftover coffee, too; I'm rinsing with that just in case the baking soda lightens my hair, which it can do, and a coffee rinse is used to darken hair.

Did you know houseplants enjoy the occasional cup of coffee, too? It's true, you can feed black coffee to your plants; I guess that's on the order of feeding filet mignon to your house cats. It's amazing what a quick search for "coffee rinse" yields. I found recipes for homemade cellulite creams using coffee grounds.