Make your own shampoo and conditioner

If there is one thing I’m crazy about, its taking all the everyday chemicals out of my life.  I like doing things as natural as possible.  So when I heard there was a way to wash your hair with baking soda and vinegar, I was excited to learn more.

I’ll admit before I tried it I was a little skeptical, I mean baking soda and vinegar isn’t that what you use to make a volcano?  Kind of sounds like a weird science experiment doesn’t it?  Well I tried it anyway, and let me tell you, it is AMAZING!  I have only washed me hair with baking soda and vinegar for about ten months and I love it.  It is for sure something that everybody should try out.  So, I’m going to tell you how to use baking soda and vinegar as your new shampoo and conditioner so you can try it out.

How to: washing your hair with baking soda and vinegar

What you need:

-Baking Soda

-Vinegar

-Water

-two plastic squeeze bottles (if you don’t have any you can just use two empty water bottles)

-optional: teaspoon measure

Steps to make the mixtures:

1.  measure about two teaspoons of baking soda into one of the bottles

2.  fill the bottle with about 1/4th a cup of warm water

3.  shake well so that the baking soda is mixed in well

4.  repeat steps 1-3 with vinegar in another bottle

How to use:

1.  when your hair is wet turn off the water and slowly pour the baking soda mix evenly in your hair.

2.  massage the mix into to make sure that you don’t miss any spots

3.  wash out the mix

4.  repeat steps 1-2 with the vinegar mix

5.  for the vinegar mix I like to let it soak into my hair for a few minutes for optimal softening

6. wash out the vinegar mix, and your done

*Your hair may smell faintly of vinegar while it’s wet, but the smell will be gone completely when your hair is dry.

Simple right?  Depending on your hair type and length, you may need to adjust the amounts a bit.  After a while of washing your hair like this, you won’t need to measure it out anymore either.  It takes your hair a little while to get used to the different way of washing, but after a max of two weeks it will work great.  Also, when you wash your hair like this, you don’t need to wash your hair as often, and because of that it won’t get as dried out!

There are just so many pros to washing your hair with vinegar and baking soda it costs less, its healthier for your hair, and it’s fun to tell people that you wash your hair with baking soda and vinegar!!!  😉  Make sure that you give this hair method a try, you’ll be surprised with how great it is!