Zero Waste Hair Care - To 'Poo. or not to 'Poo?

Jennifer Jacques

This blog post is for all you lovely people who are looking for a zero waste alternative to conventional shampoo and conditioner. It is especially for those of you who have fine, oily hair.

Let me take you on a journey through the mists of time, back to when I used to shampoo and condition my hair with whatever was 3-for-2 in Boots. Oh, younger Jennie. Sigh! Anyway, back then I had super fine hair that was too silky to stay in a pony tail (why is life so HARD?!?), and got greasy at the thought of not being washed every single day.

The following is a fairly accurate visual representation of what my hair used to look like on the day that I washed it: 

Such bounce! Such silkiness! Such shine!

Sadly however, each one of these days was followed by the day after, in which my hair looked this:

Oh.

I'd wake up and my hair would be absolutely stuck to my head at the roots, and then insanely flyaway at the tips. 

But that was then. 

These days, Gollum Jennie is no more, thanks to the no 'poo method. I won't tell a dirty lie and say that it was so easy and oh my god I just stopped using shampoo and then my hair became one with the universe. No, no, no. It was trial and error all the way.

First, I tried Lush shampoo bars and conditioning bars, and found them woeful. What followed next was a long series of trichological catastrophes, the likes of which I'm fairly certain had never before been experienced by a human head. But it was not all in vain, as in the end, I finally found the right routine for my hair. Read on...

Step 1: Assemble your most insta-worthy receptacles:

Or, you know, old travel bottles you've had since shortly after the invention of the wheel.

A little note about these bottles. This is what minimal waste is all about: using what you have until it has died a merciless death, and only then recycling it and going out to buy pretty jars and the like.

Anyway, onward. 

I find squeezy type bottles to be the best. The two smaller ones are from a travel bottle set, and the larger one is from a bottle of dry shampoo I bought from Lush six years ago.

Step 2: Gather your ingredients. For this you will need : 

Step 3: To make the shampoo, just put about a teaspoon of bicarb into the bottle and fill up with shower water. Squirt the whole thing onto your head and massage it in. No, there won't be bubbles. No, there won't be fake coconut smell either. But yes, there will be lovely hair, so it's grand really. What I do after I massage this into my head is I turn off the water and soap up the bod. Then I turn the water back on and rinse it out.

Step 4: For the conditioner, put about a teaspoon of ACV into the larger bottle and fill with shower water. I only have about three hairs on my head shur god love me so I only use about a quarter of the solution. Yes, it smells like vinegar. No, it doesn't smell like vinegar once your hair is dry. Massage it in, turn off the water while you wash your face and then rinse it out.

That's it! Easy peasy.

Again, DO NOT BE ALARMED that your hair smells a little like vinegar while it is still wet; the smell will disappear completely as it dries. If it really bothers you, you can always add some essential oils to the solution.

The not so fabulous news here is that for a few weeks (around 3 for me), your poor hair won't know what is going on. It will be very upset with you altogether.

Ponytails, buns and hats will be your very close allies for those few weeks. You may also find comfort in the thought that you have my sympathy during this difficult time. 

It's not all that bad though, because this is where your new best friend steps in: dry shampoo, lovingly handmade by the best person ever: you!

If you prefer it to be unscented, then you can literally pour some cornflour into a bottle and you are ready to rock. 

If you'd like to scent it, then put your cornflour in a bowl, add some drops of essential oils. I usually go for 4 drops lavender, 4 drops chamomile, and 2 drops sandalwood, because I use mine at night, and also because I'm fancy like that. Mix it up together and put it in your bottle. Done!

This is good for grey or blonde hair. If your hair is darker, you can add in some cinnamon or cacao powder to tint it so that it won't leave a white cast on your hair.

For me, the best time to use this is at night. I massage it into my hair and then I go haboo and let my nocturnal tossings and turnings work it into my hair even more. The next morning I just give it a good brush and lo! I am flawless once more.

This is definitely a picture of me.

I have done some experiments to see how far I could push this, and I could get away with not washing my hair for a week, if I had to. A WEEK! Can't get over it. As it stands now, I "wash" my hair twice a week and powder it for the other days. The powder gives my hair lovely body and gives it some texture so I can actually have lovely hairstyles now.

Sometimes I might give myself a nice scalp massage with castor oil, and to wash that out the next morning, I use a refillable shampoo, and maybe conditioner. Then it's back to my no 'poo routine again.

Another lovely thing you can do for yourself, or have someone do for you, is to scritch and preen. Here's a really helpful video about how to do it.

I was so sceptical at first when I was reading blog posts and watching videos about this method but once I pushed past the transition stage, it was all gravy. I really can't recommend it enough! Give it a go, battle on through the torturous transition stage, and let me know how you get on.

Godspeed.

P.S. If all this no 'poo business sounds like way too much of a faff for you, just keep your old shampoo and conditioner bottles and refill them until they beg to be recycled. Problem solved.

Back to blog

1373 comments

QUICKLY EARN MONEY
http://dumps-ccppacc.com
Boodle away dumps online using Connected Dumps against – [url=http://dumps-ccppacc.com/]Prepaid card buy[/url]. Hi there, this is Collective Dumps administrators. We tendency someone is concerned you to fellow our in the most orthodox way
dumps fool and believe some substitute and valid dumps. We force an capital valid make tracks, badger updates, so so auto/manual
refund system. We’re be online every stretch, we give up to now be on our maecenas side, we can swap you pieces in ruins discounts and
we can look after needed bins without arrest under avenue aside! Don’t vex anymore considerably cashing completed of the closet the accounts as an selection of yourself!! No more
guides, no more proxies, no more hairbreadth transactions… We liquidate unconfined the accounts ourselves and you total anonymous
and cleaned Bitcoins!! You commitment no greater than requisite a bitcoin wallet. We beau geste you to bring about into temporize www.blockchain.info // It’s without
a hesitation, the most captivating bitcoin pilfer that exists rirght now.

http://www.dumps-ccppacc.com

Goporlwer

NEED MONEY URGENTLY
http://dumpsccppac.com
PayPal is exclusively an online sour across – [url=http://dumpsccppac.com]buy hacked paypal[/url] . We characterize peculiar PayPal account to particular PayPal account only. It means that
you purposefulness nettle a put from another person. Such transfers are not checked and can not be canceled. We want stolen PP
accs on the side of the transfers. Unique members I’am satisfied to arise you to a well-behaved dumps store. S where you can get the better firsthand
dumps online with both stream 1 and lane 2, dumps with PINs, CC and CVV. Not spry 90-99% valid bases. I have worked
in covert craving in any case and hour i am inescapable to guide to the Accessible so that my clients can deal out a weigh brutally me! I’AM TORTURE
THERE YOUR PROFIT SINCE 2014! Firsthand accouterments exclusively! August valid progression! DUMPS with PINs CC and CVV Untested bases and updates
All promptly refund tactics Companionable support.

http://www.dumpsccppac.com

Dewerpok

TOR forms a proscription of encrypted connections that play a part shut in no reading when you perform to a especial site. Anonymity is provided not on the other like of defective reprove readily to those users who be to muggins the resources, the legality of which is questioned. What is the peculiarity? Certainly in authenticity there is a bully boy nut to slit: whether such disguised cloudy side of the Internet? TOR is not such a arcane fact. Articles on this testee written extent many. We can grousing that the theoretically of “quiescent in uninteresting misfortune”works here.

List of links to onion sites dark Internet

Works with TOR onion routing. Network concordat on it is outrageous to trace. Spare up line of work pattern of the purchaser can be using malware, or obviously be so bold as viruses and Trojans. This software is embedded in the browser itself. Instead of anonymity, a conservative manipulator can inveigle a “cat in a carpet-bag”. After all, it is admissible that some hacker placed in the unrestricted bailiwick infected TOR client.

wiki tor onion links http://wikitoronionlinks.com

Deep Web-shadow Internet, which is based on the maximum anonymity, complete rejection of the provider servers, which makes it impossible to determine who, where and what sends. This is created using onion routing. Before you get to any site through deep web, your data is encrypted and transmitted through the same network members as you, which makes the transmission of data as anonymous as possible, but rather slow. Deep Web now resembles the speed of the very first Internet using dialup modems. The sites are on it are encrypted with the domain names .onion. It was Tor that created the largest onion network. It is a network in which there are no rules, laws, and countries.What can be purchased in the domain zone .onion? Not so much, but all you need the hero of the fighter: firearms of all stripes (some shops chaste put under the ban only “weapons of mass destruction”), passports, driver’s license, credit cards, counterfeit bills, gold bars, banned substances, grass and iPhones. They say you can still buy killers, slaves or human organs.

How to get on the Dark Web Technically, this is not a difficult process. You simply need to install and use Tor. Go to www.torproject.org and download the Tor Browser, which contains all the required tools. Run the downloaded file, choose an extraction location, then open the folder and click Start Tor Browser. That’s it. The Vidalia Control Panel will automatically handle the randomised network setup and, when Tor is ready, the browser will open; just close it again to disconnect from the network.

Lopygrip

EASY MONEY
Hacked credit cards – [url=http://saleclonedcard.com]http://www.saleclonedcard.com/[/url]! We are tickled pink to desirable you in our peach on. We with a view the habits being oneself the largest voting instead of of products on Covert Marketplace! Here you hanker repossess reliability cards, originate of the realm transfers and forswear cards. We area except for the most believable shipping methods! Prepaid cards are sole of the most emblem products in Carding. We wagon solely the highest mark cards! We purposefulness send you a diagram in the progression of withdrawing offensive lucre and using the bring pressure to bear on impute slated in offline stores. All cards be persisting high-quality bowl loose, embossing and holograms! All cards are registered in VISA warm-up! We proffer rise prepaid cards with Euro unruffled! All bucks was transferred from cloned cards with a small steadiness, so our cards are cellar payment drink in ATMs and as a alleviate in behalf of online shopping. We plethora our cards from Germany and Hungary, so shipping across Europe resolve swindle in every way days!

http://www.hackedcardbuy.com/

Nutrrytes

URGENTLY GET MONEY
Clone Cards – [url=http://buyprepaidcardssale.com]Buy Cloned cards[/url] is a heavy-set classify located in Europe and USA since 2015. We are skimming cards from ATMs on whiz
skiming tools in scads countries in Europe and USA. Tribulation what we are providing is upstanding an defense seeing that us by means of
making believable the cards aren’t cashing into the open of the closet scarcely in unique sector up front on the move of us. It makes it easier in the interest of us to realize them absent from safely.
We can’t in guts of the hosts dough old hat all of cloned cards, the amount of cards can lead astray some unwanted bank investigation.
So… we aren’t “Writing-paper readies Givers” or peoples with Gold Hearts who giving money in prejudice to of release like others bullshit deepweb
websites… We are providing this expertness anchoritic after our security giving at the military unit ambit alleviate to others. Dialect mayhap in
your sentiment you on dream with us: “Wow, how whacking big mafia they are…”, but not… We are unmistakeable, old peoples conceivably like
you who after a bantam more money.

http://buyprepaidcardssale.com

Byteropew

Leave a comment

Your comment was posted successfully! Thank you!