Almost Free: Baking Soda Hair Wash Method
86If you've never heard of it before, your going to think I'm crazy but the Baking Soda hair wash method is a womens best friend when it comes to hair care. A baking soda hair wash will clean out the excess product, remove impurities, and clean your hair better then any expensive product on the market.
There are two ways to enjoy the benefits of washing your hair with Baking Soda.
- Wash with Baking Soda Regularly (Those who use baking soda all the time in place of shampoo only wash their hair every 4 to 5 days) Do some more in depth research on this as there is a detox period to expect.
- Do a Baking Soda hair wash a few times a month to refresh hair by thoroughly clean the hair of dirt and product build up from shampoos, conditioners, and styling products
My method of choice is to wash my hair with baking soda just a few times a month. I love my shampoo's and conditioner but this is like getting a new start. It's like a getting your teeth cleaned at the dentist. Your other hair care products just work better afterwards. I always feel the same after using baking soda in my hair.
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The Baking Soda Hair Formula
Other users of the baking soda hair cleaning recipe I've heard make their baking soda to water mixture a lot stronger then mine, some baking soda shampoo recipes are almost a thick paste. That's way to much work for me to have to wash out. I found that the amount of baking soda that I dilute into the water makes the liquid thin enough that I can completely cover my hair with it but it has enough baking soda to get the job done and really clean my hair completely.
The Baking Soda Hair Cleaner Recipe
- 1/2 cup of baking soda
- 3 cups of very warm water
Mix the two together just before getting into the shower. I keep a plastic spoon or fork so that I can even mix it while in the shower to get more baking soda in the water and less at the bottom of the container. I mix it in a old cleaned out plastic food container, but a plastic water bottle will work great too. Just be sure to make a new mixture of the baking soda hair cleaner each time you use it.
How To Use Baking Soda Hair Wash
On the days that I do the baking soda hair wash, which is about 4 times a month, I have my container ready to go just before I jump into the shower. Then once my hair is wet in the shower I get in and pour the baking soda hair wash over my head and start massaging it into my hair and scalp.
It's a weird feeling to get used to at first when you are used to the sudsy feel of shampoo's. There are no bubbles here and it will actually feel a little grity. Kind of like your pouring baking soda water on your head =P
I don't leave it in for long, Once I'm convinced I have cleaned all of my hair and scalp I start washing it out. I take much more time to make sure I have the baking soda hair wash completely out of my hair then with regular shampoo just because I want to make sure there is no powdery residue left. I finish washing the rest of me in the shower and I don't use a conditioner. I want my hair to dry without any product except my BioSilk Silk Therapy I use while blow drying.
When you rinse out the baking soda hair wash your hair is going to feel squeeky clean. Unlike with shampoos' that leave product in and your hands glide through your hair. When wet, your hair is going to feel very different. It will feel almost like your fingers don't want to slide against the hair. It's a very clean feeling because you will feel that there is no product left on your hair.
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BioSilk Is Secret Guilty Pleasure
I know that many who use baking soda as a hair shampoo think that you shouldn't need any other product. Supposed to stay natural. I agree that when I am out of the shower I can just blow dry as normal and infact my hair is softer and lighter with just the baking soda. Even without having used conditioner and find that my hair is soft and shiny.
But, I'm such a big fan of BioSilk Silk Therapy that I can't help but put a dab in the middle of my hands, rub them together and then lightly pull my hands from the top of my hair to the bottom. The shiny silky look that BioSilk Silk Therapy gives my fly away hair is amazing. There are just some parts of my beauty routine that I could never give up right after a shower. Moisturizing my face, and putting BioSilk in my hair.
I totally recommend this product, but it's not necessary as part of the baking soda hair wash. It's just my personal favorite. Its actually pretty expensive if you are uses to using drugstore leave-in hair products. But it is salon quality and the littlest amount goes very far even on long hair.
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your welcome ivorwen
Wow this sounds interesting. I wonder how well it works on naturally curly hair. I am thinking it might take a long time to rinse it out.
Sunstreeks: I gave it a try and love it! My hair has more body then it has in ages, and is more the color it was when I was in college... a color I haven't seen in almost ten years. It also dried quickly, which is a bonus.
Fantastic! This hub was a God-send. I had just been going to look up homemade shampoos, as I was about out of my commercial stuff and didn't plan on buying more. Lo and behold, a friend sent me this hub to look at, and, voila! Problem potentially solved.
I love apple cider vinigar as well...maybe I should try mixing or alternating...
Ivorwen - Glad you love it. =) I've found when I use it, no conditioner is needed either.. just a little silk therapy stuff spread on the ends and a tiny bit on the length of my hair and thats it.. Ready to go out.. I'm considering switching to just the baking soda for awhile and seeing how that goes. I hear there are great results with just BS.
Joy - good luck. Let me know if it worked for you..
Meggin - You can use both.. use the baking soda to clean, and the apple cider vinegar as a way to soften the hair.
I'll try this - thank you for the simple instructions
It works great! I've used it a couple of times now, with a light vinegar rinse, and not only did I get my natural red highlights back that I had in highschool, but my split ends began literally healing. I've never been able to grow my hair past a certain point because it tends to get raggedy...maybe now I'll be able to grow it as long as I want. I'm hooked.
Fascinating. I'm going to try this. We all spend a fortune on hair care products. Now if you could come up with something to banish gray hairs :-)
I had no idea! Wow! And how cheap a thing to do. Wow. Well i'm going to try it. Good point about the detox issue. Thanks for the great tips here!
mythbuster - so how did it work for you? did you try it yet?
Joy -Awesome results huh! =) I forgot about that, I noticed the hair color thing as well the first time I had done this. Now, I think I take it for granted and because I do it regularly, I think I'm able to keep the build up that dulls the color to a minimum.
My color didn't change or anything it was just more vibrant. I think that be removing the toxins, impurities, dirt, hair care product build up, that we are also removing the dullness they cause from coating the hair strand. So when we use the baking soda hair wash, it strips off all the junk and makes the hair seem to reflect it's color better when the light hits it.
dink98 - sorry, nothing to banish grey hairs cept hair coloring =) Garnier Nutrisse hair color is a good one.. comes in the green box. That's what I use to color my hair.
Frieda - very cheap=) I used to always search for the perfect clairifing shampoo. You have no idea how much I've spent trying out salon shampoos that are supposed to take everything out of the hair. (drug store shampoo's and conditioners give me scalp sores). Found this and it works better then anything I've tried. Costs just a few pennies each use.
I have also found baking soda and salt to make a great combo for brushing teeth. This is what my great grandma used back in early 1900's. I used it once when I ran out of toothpaste and Voila! Squeeky clean. (I would use it as a shampoo but shave my head so that I dont have to worry about that sort of thing) =)
Good suggestion papermoon. I also make a baking soda paste and then use my spin brush to brush my teeth with every once in awhile. Not as a subsitute for brushing with toothpaste but more just to get rid of the surface stains which helps to whiten them a little bit too. I never knew to use salt in the mix. I will have to go look up what the salt does.
thanks for the share
Never heard of this before. Will it take the color out of your hair if you're using hair dye (too many greys in mine...sigh)
is baking soda the same as bicarbonate of soda? Or baking powder?
SusanWestly I recently dyed my hair with a very dark brown color. Some of the color has lighten but honestly, it had started before I did another baking soda wash so I honestly could'nt say if the baking soda took some of the color out or if it was just because I used a cheap color.
londongirl- yep, baking soda is just another name for Sodium bicarbonate =)
Bicarb is great stuff - I use it for all sorts of things, like getting stains off a a metal sink and keeping the fridge fresh.
i have not used shampoo now for over 2 weeks. i tried this at first because i was sick of how nasty my fine hair looked if i did not wash it everyday. i love it, my hair kinda feelks like "beach hair" in a good way. i'm still in the trans. phase so i can only guess it will look better and better. i'm not a big "green" person. i just wanted nice hair. but it does feel good to know i'm helping. p.s my hair has all but stoped falling out and my scalp is never itchy any more!! love it
When I was young Borax was used for the same purpose.
I just know that baking soda can be use for our hair, nice HUB. thanks for great information.
Detox issue? What do you mean? I like the idea of a super clean, natural product. As a natural blonde I find a lot of shapoos just don't do it, they leave my hair dull and dingy.
I wonder if you go out on a hot day after the baking soda wash, ifyour hair gets all puffed up. (hahaha) Maybe if you add a little egg.
I LOVE doing the baking soda wash and the apple cider vinegar rinse. Always makes my hair feel sooooo much better. Then I fall off the wagon, and use my husband's shampoo! AUGH! Drying out my hair. I'm starting back on baking soda, and had to look up the recipes. My bone straight normal brown hair always feels silky and looks shiney after a few days of using the method. It's wonderful, and I love using it on the children, as I know there is nothing to sting their eyes, as it is diluted enough. Shampoos that claim not to burn eyes mostly have numbing agents in them! So, they add a chemical that numbs the eyes so the child doesn't actually feel the irritation the shampoo may cause. It never worked for me as a kid, and usually doesn't work for my kids. Baking soda works great! And the ACV rinse is wonderful, too!
Baking soda, also, makes a great body scrub! It's great for getting rid of the dry skin without stripping your natural oils, like soap. I LOVE it on my dry senisitve skin! And it helps clean the tub drain as it's going down!
Some claim a dab of baking soda in each armpit makes a great natural deoderant, as well. I haven't been able to go that far, just yet... But I know there are tons of other wonderful household uses for it that are often near miraculous in how easy they work and soooo safe around pets and children (as long as they don't eat it).
Great, helpful article, thanks! :D
Well I might just have to give this a go. I've never heard of such a thing.
Cool! You like using baking soda too! Good hub!
Great ideas everyone. If i use baking soda as a bath scrub, do i still need to use soap?.
Very useful tips indeed...
Hi,
I think I must be a new age hippy at heart cos Im always mad to hear about and try out natural potions and the like.
One question,
Will plain white vinegar also replace ACV. If so I can try this tomorrow!!
Where odes one get this Biosilk conditioner. sounds nice.
These are two good articles on this topic. Enjoy.
Ditching shampoo a dirty little beauty secret
An underground, eco-friendly hair trend finds followers and fights frizzies
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30337386/
Can you wash your hair -- without washing it?
i can't wait to try it!
here are some stacey-tested tips:
i have very frizz-prone hair and had tried biosilk in the past. it seemed to either not work or grease me up (no happy medium). after searching for years i finally found something in my kitchen that worked better than anything i had ever bought in a store...coconut oil! not too much of course, it IS oil. but the happy medium is much easier to find. nothing has ever been able to do this for my hair. and i will spread the word till the day i die. i just know there is someone out there like i was just searching endlessly for something to stop frizz.
and also someone mentioned baking soda for deodorant. i don't know about that, but i use lavender essential oil. just a few drops works great! lavender is a natural antibacterial and after all, it's not the sweat that stinks, it's the bacteria that builds up in it. and just between us, internet, i actually have a condition called hyperhydrosis. it basically means i sweat a lot more than 99% of the world. so if anyone knows about stink prevention, it would be me =)
Ivorwen says:
7 months ago
I had never heard of using baking soda as a shampoo before. It sound wonderful. I will definitely be giving it a try. Thank you for telling.