Wow. It’s hard to believe that shampoo hasn’t touched my scalp for three weeks. There’s definitely no turning back for me now. I never want to even look at shampoo again!

I tried out an apple sauce wash last Tuesday – no rinse – just 1/3 cup sauce and 2/3 cup water. Slathered it onto my wet hair and massaged in. The mixture felt surprisingly nice – if a little gritty. It made me realize how much I miss the texture of shampoo. Something solid, and real. With BS it’s hard to tell if you’ve applied it thoroughly, and I find myself spending twice or even 3 times as long in the shower making sure I’ve scrubbed every millimeter of my scalp.

I thought I’d washed out the apple sauce pretty thoroughly, but I found tons of apple flecks in my hair afterward. It looked like lice. Once my hair dried, it took me about 20 minutes to comb all of the little buggers out. Immediately upon drying, my hair was still greasy. It also felt like I had hairspray in my hair. My hair had massive volume, and was very course and dry, like straw. I’ve started to take these alternative washes with a grain of salt, and probably won’t be trying any more for awhile. Some members of no-poo have been encouraging me not to vary my routine as much; I should try to stick with something and allow my scalp to adjust to that.

My 2nd wash of the week on Friday was uneventful. Same old same old. Used a smidge of BS in 1 cup of water and a 1:3 vinegar/water rinse. My hair was slightly dry at the tips and very greasy at the roots. It’s becoming routine for me to pat in cornstarch to combat some of the grease, at least on the exposed part of my roots. But I’ve noticed that my hair is producing less oil than it did 3 weeks ago. On day 3 I don’t see any grease on the corn-starched parts of my hair, but I shower anyway because the rest of my hair just feels like it needs a wash.

3rd wash, Sunday. Technically the beginning of week 4, but I want to report it now. I said I wouldn’t be trying any alternative washes, but I’d ordered a bar of Dr. Brenner’s Lavender soap, and it arrived in the mail on Saturday. It’s basically castile soap, (castile soap is made by combining olive oil with lyre) with some coconut hemp oil, lavender oil, and other essential oils for good measure. All organic, and most importantly, sodium laureth sulfate-free! I could smell it through the envelope and, man, did it smell good. An almost overbearing scent of lavendar, but after putting up with ACV and WV for 3 weeks, I could almost hear the choir of angels rejoicing.

Once in the shower, I found that only a small amount of the soap was needed to cover my roots. It lathered! I feel slightly guilty about that, and was careful to keep the soap contained to my scalp; I didn’t want it to touch my lengths. I found, after rinsing it out, that I got the same rough feeling as I did with the BS, except without the stickiness. The gross waxy oil was gone! I rinsed with about 3 tbsp lemon juice in 1 cup water, and sprayed some ACV onto my tips. I didn’t want to use white vinegar because of the smell, and I was told by a no-poo member that lemon juice produces the same results as WV.

Upon drying, my hair was a bit flatter than it had been with the BS, which is kind of okay with me because I don’t really like the way my hair looks when it has too much volume. Color me crazy, I know. It’s still shiny, and pretty soft. Maybe slightly dry. But this morning I can tell that my roots are a bit oily. Next week I will attempt to return to my BS/WV routine. Until then!

I am so frustrated – my hair is constantly greasy and I can’t find any solace from it! At the beginning of week 2 I considered the possibility of my water being hard.

Hard water has a high mineral content of calcium and magnesium, and when soap or other alkalines react with those chemicals, it forms precipitates that leave behind a residue. The same thing happens when baking soda meets hard water. I do not live in an area with super hard water, but it is definitely not soft.

My mother has switched to the same routine as I have, but she is not seeing the waxy buildup that I am. She did not get greasy hair when she used shampoo though, and I always got it on the 2nd day after shampooing. So I don’t think hard water is the cause of the buildup. My scalp must still just be adjusting its oil production. It could be still trying to defend itself from the harsh detergents I was attacking it with.

The first wash of the week took place on Sunday. I had read up on a brilliant post on no-poo which talked of using eggs to clean hair.  Remembering the good experience I had with my Olive-egg treatment, I decided it was worth a try. I washed my hair with two beat raw eggs, following up with a brief apple cider vinegar rinse. I could tell the difference immediately! The oil was gone and my hair felt very clean, albeit a bit dry. My hair didn’t need another wash for 3 days.

I also read another post which raved about using white vinegar to combat any buildup from hard water and baking soda, so on Wednesday I tried that. I first washed with a 1:3 white vinegar/water solution. Then I used a miniscule amount of baking soda (about 1 teaspoon) in 1 cup of water. I rinsed with the same 1:3 ratio white vinegar/water mix. This produced the best results yet! My roots were almost perfectly clean – just a tiny bit oily, but it looked different from the usual wax. And my tips felt ultra smooth with moisture like you wouldn’t believe! Again I went about 3 days before needing another wash.

Saturday was the 3rd and last time I washed during week 2. I tried to do the same routine that I did on Wednesday, but it did not turn out well. My hair was gross and waxy again, and not as moist or smooth. Not quite sure why it turned out differently.

I would have thought my adjustmet period to no-poo would just mean that I would still have oily hair very quickly and need to wash often, but I didn’t ever think that I would have gross hair immediately after washing! I don’t want to go back to using sulfates though, now that I know how miserable its made my hair. I know this constant obsessing about my hair is probably extremely repetetive and dull, but I figure it’s a good idea to keep a log of the experiments on my hair, so that I can remember what I did and how it turned out.

I’ve had a very rough transition period to no-poo. I started two weeks ago, and a very long two weeks they’ve been. My routine so far has been switching shampoo out with baking soda and replacing conditioner with apple cider vinegar. So here’s how my first week on no-poo went.

The first time I tried washing my hair with BS (baking soda), it felt alright. The concentration that I used was 1 tablespoon to 1 cup water (15ml to 240ml), and the same for the ACV (apple cider vinegar) rinse. My hair was fuller, softer, and bouncier! But the next day oil showed up at the roots. I told myself that it was alright, that I was “detoxing”. I was prepared for an excess of oil while my scalp adjusted to the change.

The no-poo members on average wash their hair about every four days. Four glorious hair days without any sign of dirt or oil, and with gorgeous healthy hair! That’s twice as long between washes as I’m used to! Grease builds up in my hair so quickly, usually by the second day, because my scalp is over producing oil to compensate for the shampoo stripping it away constantly. I think after this first wash I made it to about three very greasy days before breaking down and washing again.

When I washed my hair for the second time with the same solutions, I took more notice to how the baking soda and apple cider vinegar felt in my hair. The first time I had washed with it, my hair felt relatively clean afterwards. As soon as I had squirted on my baking soda/water solution and rubbed it in, I noticed that it felt very slippery. I’ve read that this is what you want to happen. But when I rinsed it out, my fingers came to a screeching halt in my hair. It felt like I had hit a wall of wax! I tried scrubbing while letting water pour through my hair, but it did nothing. The more I scrubbed, the worse it became.  Even my fingertips felt sticky. Cleaning them with soap helped, but once I stuck my fingers back in my hair and rubbed the stickiness came back. Not sure if this was normal or not, I just squirted on the ACV and let it sit while I cleaned the rest of my body. I still felt this odd stickiness after I rinsed out the ACV.

There was a ring of wax around my crown after my hair dried. I’ve never ever seen this before. It looked different than normal greasy hair does. It was absolutely disgusting! My hair would stay in whichever position I brushed it into. I concluded that the baking soda was not doing its job – not removing the oil. My sister, who had been following the routine with me, was having nearly identical results. We both tried putting corn starch in our hair to absorb some of the wax but it didn’t really do much. Our hair just looked duller and remained clumpy looking at the roots. The ends of my hair still felt good and moisturized though. I brushed it into a ponytail. It looked passable but not great.

I washed one more time again last week, thinking that maybe I wasn’t scrubbing the BS in hard enough. I also decided to skip the ACV rinse thinking that was attributing to the wax, as I had read ACV can make your hair look oily. Bad idea. My hair became rough, brittle, and extremely dry. I even experienced breakage, which I don’t think has ever happened to me before. The waxiness had gone down only slightly. It didn’t really feel oily nor did it leave residue on my fingertips, but it still stayed clumpy at the roots and had no movement.

So that’s how my first week on no-poo went. I was not a happy camper that week. I thought about shampoo lustily every day, and how awesome – just a little – would feel in my hair. Somehow I managed to stick with the BS. I’m starting to think that baking soda is a load of b.s. But the longer I go with no shampoo the more I feel like I can’t go back to it – I don’t want this miserable experience to be all for nothing! Anyway, I’ll have my results for week 2, where things start to look up, posted very soon.

I think things may be looking up for my hair. I’m sure many of you have heard of livejournal.com. It’s a place I visit often; I don’t keep a journal there but I lurk around many of its communities. While uncovering the dirty secrets shampoo companies don’t want us to know, I stumbled across a curiously named community: the no-poo group. They are of the persuasion that you don’t need shampoo to keep your hair clean – that there are other ways.

I am so tickled by their name. It’s brilliant! As I have learned, shampoo is basically the equivalent of putting “poo” in your hair, so this clever phrase is very fitting. I found the community through Heather, a LiveJournal member who goes under the alias babyslime.  She wrote a guide on alternative methods for keeping your hair clean and beautiful, in which she replaces shampoo with a baking soda wash, and conditioner with an apple cider vinegar rinse. Using only these two ingredients will help your hair revert to its natural state and should give you a gorgeous head of hair. I was skeptical of this method at first. Baking soda? I never use it, but it is a commonly used cleaner.

Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, is an alkaline, and with a pH balance of 8.1. In comparison, the human body has a natural pH balance of 7.4, and neutrality on the scale is 7. Baking soda can effectively deodorize and lift dirt and oil from anything, hair included. Heather, as well as most of the no-poo members, recommends that you use a solution of one tablespoon of baking soda to one cup of warm water, and scrub it into your scalp well.

Apple cider vinegar made more sense to me based on my findings: acidic solutions flatten hair scales back down and lock in moisture. Apple cider vinegar, when ingested, may help diabetics by lowering glucose levels, and recent studies show that it may even help fight cancer and high cholesterol and lower blood pressure. It can also make you feel fuller if you’re trying to diet. Good luck trying to swallow it though – blech! A recommended solution for a rinse is one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to one cup of water. Massage it in, and use cold water to close the hair cuticles when rinsing it out. Heather says that when used on the scalp and hair, it:

• promotes blood circulation

• acts as a natural antiseptic

• dissolves excessive fatty deposits

• reduces scaling or peeling of the scalp

• clarifies, detangles, and balances the hair’s pH level

• seals hair cuticles

Despite my skepticism, I had to try it out! I went out and bought some spray bottles and some apple cider vinegar and set about mixing the solutions. I used them after two days of not washing, because as my hair is already really dry, I didn’t want to dry it out even more. Heather warns that using the baking soda solution too often will make your hair dry and brittle. After I used the baking soda wash and apple cider vinegar rinse, I noticed a difference. My hair feels squeaky clean when I use shampoo, but with this it felt… sort of slippery. I was also worried that I would have a lot of tangles, but my hair actually felt very smooth, and once it dried it had a great volume.

Many of the no-poo members find they only need to wash their hair once a week or even less with this method, and they no longer experience greasy scalp. Shampoo completely strips your hair which throws your body into overdrive in producing oil to compensate. People switching from shampoo to no-poo will usually experience an adjustment period where the scalp will overproduce oil, but it should clear up in about two weeks. I’m in my first week, and boy, does my scalp feel gross. I also discovered that if you don’t thoroughly scrub out the oil from every millimeter of your scalp, it’s going to stubbornly stay right where it is. This is definitely not an easy switch. I’m so close to running to the shower right now and using some poisonous chemicals to get rid of the grease. But I’ve been reading that greasy does not equal dirty. So I’m going to do my best to stick with it.

If you’re like me but in a situation where you can’t/don’t want to spend money on expensive methods to fix your damaged hair, ditch the shampoo and go no-poo! I urge everyone who is interested to check out the rest of Heather’s guide; she also has a section on the dangers of the topical use sodium laureth sulfate. Going no-poo may not be the most favorable option out there for everyone, but I am going to give it a thorough try and let you know how it goes.

In my search for a remedy for dry hair, I have found some interesting information on what is lurking in your average shampoo. Shampoos have many chemicals in them that we are told are needed to clean your hair. The most common ingredients in shampoo are detergents and surfactants; sodium laureth sulfate and ammonium laureth sulfate are the most popular for use in shampoo. They’re responsible for that rich lather that builds when you start scrubbing.

Okay, doesn’t sound so bad. We’re all familiar with detergents – we use them for basically all of our cleaning purposes. Detergents are synthesized replacements for soap, not made from animal fat but from chemicals, that don’t leave behind any icky residue like soap does. But what exactly is a surfactant? A surfactant, or surface-acting agent, is just a blanket term for something that is water-soluble, meaning it allows water to spread out and attach to other liquids, in particular, fatty substances. So soaps and detergents are surfactants. Any oil or dirt that is in your hair will cling to the water and slide down the drain with the help of a surfactant.

Sounds good! I don’t like oily or dirty hair so naturally I want to get rid of oil build-up and dirt. But detergents get rid of all oil, which causes hair to become dry. Shampoo companies already know this, which is why they often add another, less harsh detergent called cocamidopropyl betainecan. This detergent, with its humectant properties, serves to lock moisture into hair and reduces static discharge. It also contains antibiotics that preserve the shampoo against bacteria.

Smell is also an important factor when it comes to shampoo. Many of the chemicals that are added to shampoo don’t smell very good, so fragrances are added to cover them up. A surfactant, ammonium xylenesulfonate, is added to help hold in these fragrances, while at the same time adding more body to the shampoo. Another thickener that is commonly added is salt, which dries out hair even more and can irritate your eyes. In higher end shampoos, more expensive substances are used for thickening.

All of these surfactants, because they dissolve in water, are very basic and therefore have high alkaline levels. In hair terms, it means that washing your hair with them will make the scales on your hair stand up – much like your pet’s hair does when you pet them the wrong way (against the fur). The strands stick together like Velcro, are harder to brush, rough to the touch, and lack shine. Acidic substances, on the other side of the pH+ scale, will do the opposite: they will make the scales lay flat, and as an effect, hair will feel smooth and look shiny.

Some attempt is made to acidify most shampoos, but it’s not nearly enough to stand on. That’s why we have more unneeded products: conditioners. Conditioners contain humectants to bring back the moisture that the shampoo has stripped, as well as citric acid to flatten the scales and cover up the damage. Fragrances, proteins, preservatives and essential fatty acids can be found in both conditioner and shampoo as well as other ingredients which you can read about here.

Companies will tell you that the proteins and essential fatty acids will rebuild hair. While they may provide some benefit to your roots and stimulate growth, they aren’t going to do much to you hair shafts. Hair is dead, so the essential acids that are responsible for the chemical processes occuring inside the body won’t have the same effect on dead cells as they do live.

All of these damaging and unneeded ingredients contained in shampoo and conditioner leave me feeling guilty. What, in my ignorance, have I done to my hair? Is there another alternative to surfactants for keeping hair clean? I believe I may have an answer to that, but I will have to do some more digging before I can share it here. All I can say is, affordable healthy hair may be a lot easier to achieve than I initially thought!

Over two weeks have gone by since my hair experiment with eggs and olive oil. My hair felt great immediately after the treatment! Shiny and moisturized… for only three days. Now it’s just as dry as ever. I had been using TRESemmé Anti-Breakage Shampoo before I tried the Olive-egg treatment. I suspect that it’s one of the culprits behind my dryness, so I decided to dilute it with 2 parts water and only wash my hair every other day. The diluted shampoo still lathers up exactly the same as before, but the cold water is so uncomfortable. I have not noticed any change – my hair is still dry.

My hair is on the thick side, shoulder-length, and naturally dark blonde with some wave. I didn’t notice this dry hair issue until I started dying my hair light blonde. But I really like the color of my hair now, so I won’t stop unless I don’t find a way to keep it simultaneously healthy and colored.

Aside from harsh detergents and coloring, I’ve found that there are other causes for dry hair. Hair can become dry by blow-drying it too much, overexposing it to the sun or pool, or by washing it too much. When you wash your hair, not only are you removing dirt from it – you are removing the natural oils that help to keep your hair moist. Washing less often, like every other day, can give your hair some time to replenish the oils that you have stripped. For me though, it’s just not enough time.

There are also some health related reasons for dry hair: anorexia and poor nutrition are just some, and they go hand in hand. The proper nutrients that your system needs to function are also needed to keep hair soft, shiny and moist. The picture of health in animals is a shiny coat – the same thing applies to humans. So when you starve yourself or don’t eat right, you don’t get those nutrients. Fish oil, salmon, or walnuts contain the essential omega-3 fatty acids that keep hair healthy.

I know in my last entry, I said I would be keeping my eyes open for any affordable, mild shampoos, and so far I have not had any luck. But I have come up with an idea: what if I just make my own shampoo? Then I would have complete control over what would be going into my hair. Answering this question will be the next step in my cure for dry hair, and as soon as I do I will be posting again.

It’s been over a week since I last posted. I’ve been kind of blocked up in the writing area, and I’m having a little bit of trouble coming up with ideas to write about. So I thought I’d talk the progress I’ve made so far in John Thornhill’s Marketing Masterclass. I’m into week 7 of the program, and about a quarter of the way up the visual mountain inside my head. I can see my old self at the bottom from here… she was clueless. She didn’t know what affiliate programs really could offer, and had never even heard of ClickBank – to her money making online was a fuzzy concept, trailing behind a comet, travelling light years out of reach.

But this new me has come a long way in just these few short months. So far it’s been an incredible journey. I do feel like some of my posts are totally irrelevant to online profit, but I’m still just trying to get a feel for my personal writing style. But I really have learned a lot – I’ve created my own blog and know how make it look just the way I want. I can now upload & download files to my blog, as well as utilize affiliate links and banners. And I finally got friggin’ accepted by Google Adsense! If they think my website is worth putting ads on, someone else has got to.

Next week, I am going to begin creating my product. As that draws time nearer, I find myself becoming anxious. I don’t see how any of my knowledge could be worthwhile to other people. What can I possibly offer up? But that comet with the money streaming behind it has swung around the far point of its orbit and is now heading back towards me. And I’m going to make it to the top of the mountain of marketing to meet it!

When I went to see Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, I thought I was going to see his interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. What I saw was not so. Burton’s Alice is a sequel to the original story, and most of our beloved characters appear in his film, but I am not sure of what’s happened to them.

Nineteen-year-old Alice is to be married to a mess of a boy, and while those around her are celebrating, she feels trapped and unsure. She runs away from her potential fiancé and her party guests to follow a rabbit down a rabbit hole into Wonderland. There she finds a colorful, mystical world filled with oddly shaped people and talking animals. To her surprise, they all know her and plead with her to rescue them all from the evil Red Queen, who is terrorizing their Underland.

When I realized this movie was not the dreamlike exploration of whimsical absurdity, but a platform for writer Linda Woolverton to push her uninspired “epic fantasy” formula, I resigned from the film and twiddled my thumbs, waiting for it to end. Gone are the characters, bubbling and brimming with a never-ending supply of creative insanity, that I loved so much. The Cheshire Cat just floats about, grinning serenely and looking soft and cuddly. The Mad Hatter, while constantly declaring his madness, is not even close to off his rocker, the Blue Caterpillar looks as though he will nod off any second and nearly succeeded in causing me to do so, and the Dodo golf club doesn’t even higgle. None of them left me wanting to see more.

Burton’s costume and set designs are crowned with vivid colors that never go anywhere. He could have done so much with sets, changing and morphing them to create a sense of hopelessness and confusion. His world is so tame; all of the characters live to serve Alice. If only he’d focused on creating his own world instead of this phone-in pile of CGI’d dung. Instead, Burton took his trusty CGI gun and lazered the crap out of anything that moved. One should never substitute CGI for the real thing when the real thing is available. It takes all of the charm out of having a real bunny, a real dog, a real horse. These critters all suffer from typical goofy Pixar facial expressions and conformations, that in reality would not even be able to walk, let alone merrily gallop about. Choppy and careless, Burton.

Mia Wasikowska is the only ray of light in this drag. She weaves maturity and innocence together gracefully, and is very believable as a young woman who has no qualms about being different. She is enchanting and has gravity. Oh yes, and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter did well with what he had. His colorful outfit was interesting to say the least, and his eyes that changed color with his mood as well as his morphing accent were a nice touch. However, neither of them were enough to save this film.

Fans of the 1951 version of Alice in Wonderland, I warn you, you will probably not find what you’re looking for here. But if you enjoyed Eragon and the new Chronicles of Narnia films, you will probably love Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.

I’m going to attempt to make this week’s recap a lot shorter. Read on if you’ve already seen Sundown or don’t care about being spoiled.

Flash sideways: Sayid reuinites with Nadia, who is married to his brother, Omer, with 3 children. Sayid charms the pants off of both of them.

Island: Sayid visits Dogen. “Let’s start with that machine,” Sayid says, recalling their last hot session. Bondage, needles, “testing.” Not this time, Dogen tells him – Sayid is just too evil.  Sayid jumps Dogen. Of Japanese descent, naturally Dogen is a martial arts expert and tops Sayid. He lets Sayid go, telling him to never come back.

Locke sends Claire to the Temple: “Pass in on.”

Flash sideways: Sayid is roused from sleep by Omer. “It’s too dirty in the morning!” Sayid chides. But that’s not what his brother wants; he wants Sayid to “take care” of some people who are after him. Sayid refuses.

Island: Sayid is packing up to leave, when Claire shows up with a message: UnLocke wants to talk. Dogen sends Sayid out, with orders to kill UnLocke/ Evil-Incarnate.

Flash sideways: Sayid and Nadia rush to the hospital to Omer’s aid when they find out he’s been attacked.

Island: Kate returns to the Temple. Miles tells her Claire is here, acting weird, but still hot. Sayid encounters UnLocke in the jungle. Sayid stabs him, but it doesn’t work. UnLocke tells Sayid that Dogen tricked him and then, continuing his game of telephone, gives Sayid a message.

Flash sideways: Sayid confesses to Nadia that he didn’t marry her because he doesn’t deserve her.

Island: Sayid announces to the Temple people that they must leave with UnLocke or die. Kate finds Claire and tells her that she’s got Aaron and is here to rescue her. Claire threatens Kate.

Flash sideways: Sayid is kidnapped by some men, who take him to Martin Keamy, who is cooking eggs. Keamy demands to be paid what he is owed. Sayid kills him. Then he finds Jin in a refrigerator.

Island: Sayid returns the knife to Dogen, who apologizes and pours his heart out. It’s too late for apologies though, and Sayid drowns him in the pool inside the Temple. After that, Miles looses a door pushing competition with Ilana, and Sayid makes Ben pee in his pants. Finally, the Smoke Monster arrives and kills everyone. Everyone except Sayid, Claire, and Kate. Then he leads all of his new followers off into the jungle.

End

I’ve always been bored with my natural hair color, dark neutral blonde. I recently started dying my hair, but I don’t have room in my budget for the salon, so I just use a kit: L’Oreal Preference Extra Light Natural Blonde. It gives me a relatively natural looking light blonde, a little darker than the box. I spend little time and money on hair maintenance, and because of that I have very dry hair.

When I went to get my hair cut yesterday, my stylist complained to me, as usual, about my hair. I told her that I won’t now or ever spend more than 5 dollars on a bottle of shampoo or conditioner. She surprisingly didn’t push this time. But it left me thinking: is there a cheap way to bring shine and moisture back to my hair?

I turned to the web, my first stop for questions or problems, and found that there are many cheap solutions. Almost all involve food, most rich in fat or protein: olive oil, mayonnaise, eggs, vinegar, avocados, bananas, even beer. I’ve heard of mayonnaise treatments before, and I didn’t relish the thought of it in my hair. Beating 2 eggs together with 2 tablespoons of olive oil seemed like the lesser evil. I threw in some Coconut Oil for good measure.

Once in the bathroom with my mixture, I realized quickly that if I didn’t get in the shower, I’d have a sink covered with Olive-eggs. This stuff is messy and sticky, and it did not want to go  into my hair. I managed to get most of my head covered though. I slapped on a shower cap (a plastic bag would work too) and waited.

After 30 minutes, I rinsed it out, making sure the water wasn’t too hot – I didn’t want scrambled eggs on top of my head. I shampooed and conditioned as normal, and let my hair air dry. I definitely notice a difference, just from that one session! My hair feels smoother when I run my fingers through it, and I can see it’s got a bit of shine to it. I’m going to continue doing the Olive-egg treatment twice a month and see where that gets me.

I also found that as far as shampoos go, if you wouldn’t wash your face with it, you probably shouldn’t wash your hair with it either. Shampoo strips hair follicles of its natural oils, which is why dry hair is so common. There are many all-natural, non-carcinogenic, low alkaline, organic shampoos out there that are less harsh on hair, but they seem to have a hefty price tag attached. For now, I’m going to continue using what I have, but start washing my hair less, dilute my shampoo with water, and of course keep using my Olive-egg recipe. I will be keeping my eyes open for any cost efficient soaps and posting them here.