I feel like I'm kinda talkin to myself here, but oh well, I guess people don't post in this section alot.
Anyway, I found another interesting news article about a water only experiment.
If you're interested: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=394226&in_page_id=1879
So I'm on day..15 now. Just going into week 3. My scalp hair is
pretty much just as greasy as it's been since about day 3, but the oil
is slowly moving down the length.
ON the days that I water wash my hair, my bangs and scalp look pretty
good for half the day, only slightly oily. I saw a friend who I hadn't
seen since starting this, and she couldn't even tell I hadn't washed
(hair was up, but bangs were down).
IF I comb my hair after showering though, I brush the oil right back in 'cause my comb has so much sebum on it.
My length is getting so much softer. Especially the nape hair
underneath, which usuially is coarse and tangly. After fingercombing my
hair, I can comb through the whole length with a fine-toothed comb and
not not have it tangle or rip. Woohoo!
OH and I pretty much have no more flyaways! I use to get a lot.
Why would anyone want to do that? Why, for beautiful,
shiny, strong, self-cleaning hair of course. Well, supposedly...
WHAT I"M DOING:
So I decided to start a 3
month experiment where I'm only going to wash my hair with water.
Why 3
months? In this article I read (which I talk about in the next
paragraph), it took the lady a month for her scalp to adjust. But she
had dry hair, and I have a super oily scalp. So, 3 months it is. I
wrote a little bit about this in my intro message here:
Hey, My name's Jessica. This seems like a great place to learn how to take care of my hair since I'm trying to grow it out.
I also thought I'd join 'cause I'm trying an experiment on my hair
where I'm only using water to wash it (now you think I'm crazy right?).
I read this article about a lady who hadn't washed her hair for 11 yrs
and supposedly it be came self-cleaning and beautiful so I thought why
not try it? I don't mind looking like a bum in public so it shouldn't
be too hard.
I was searching on this board to see if any one else had tried it, and
I couldn't find anything so I thougth I'd start a thread to share my
own experience. I think I'll put it in the alternative hair care
section if you want to follow my experiment.
Anyway, it's nice to meet everyone. From what I've read you guys seem friendly and helpful.
HOW IT WORKS:
So the logic behind this is we're sort of in a viscous
cycle with our hair where we strip our hair of it's natural oil with
shampoo. Then we use conditioner to imitate our natural oils. Well that
seems sort of silly to me. I mean, sebum was made for our hair, so I'm
sure it's good for us. But, you might be asking, won't that lead to
nasty, dirty hair?
While the scalp is balancing out, the hair will probably be super
greasy at first, and I'm sure that will attract dust and whatnot. But
once that's done with, the sebum will actually create a slightly acidic
environment that prevents most bad bacteria from being able to thrive
while allowing the good ones to live. When we wash our bodies with
soap, we may kill the bacteria that's on our skin for the moment. But
bacteria is everywhere and it's soon back on our skin in no time. So
our natural body oils are actually very important in keeping those bad
bacteria at bay. That's why not shampooing the hair will actually make
it cleaner!
Wooh, thanks for reading all that. Now... to the actual experiment.
THE EXPERIMENT:
So far I'm on day 9. I have really oily, straight, blonde hair. So
I usually have to wash my hair every day if I don't want it looking
oily. I don't use shampoo though, I've been using conditioner only to
wash my hair for the past half-year (if you want to know how that works
you can ask me, but I think this post's pretty damn long already).
I've been washing my hair in the shower everyother day with luke warm
water and ending with cold. I've also been combing my hair with my
horn-comb twice a day, massaging my scalp and using my fingers all to
pull the oils down.
Needless to say my hair is pretty damn greasy. I wear it up, so it
looks alright in public. The sebum's not all the way down my length
yet(hair waist-length), so I've been lightly oiling the ends with
cocnut oil when they feel dry so I can comb easier without ripping my
hair out.
Oh, and the water here is medium-soft. I think that would be an issue
cause when I lived wher there was hard water, it caused alot of build
up in my hair, which I think would make it hard for someone trying to
do water only washings with hard water.
That's it for now. If anyone else would like to join in, feel free. It
would be interesting to see other's experiences (and what works and
what doesn't).
Thanks for reading. Hope you found this at least somewhat intriguing.
Edited to add link to the article: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13291687,00.html
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