all about shampoo

I found that lots of store bought general shampoos were full of too many words I couldn't pronounce, left my hair too dry. I tried making my own shampoo once. Basically i just boiled some rose petals that I got really cheap from the florist in water. I removed the rose petals and added avocado oil, a beaten egg, and a small amount of soap flakes. This worked pretty well but the first time I used water that was too hot and the eggs began to get thick like they were cooking in my head. But when I used cooler water, it worked better.

I did the co-wash most often. It was the easiest. Co-washing is simply washing your hair with conditioner. Conditioners have a cleansing agent in them usually and it helps to keep the hair soft. I would wet my hair with warm water. Put conditioner in. The conditioner I had most handy was just plain old cholesterol conditioner or Carol's daughter hair smoothie. I'd let it sit for a few minutes. Brush out the kinks with a denman brush and rinse while running my fingers through each section.

There are ingredients in shampoos and all hair products that I tried to stay away from. These are words that I would look for. If a product had these words or any variation of these words, I would try to avoid using that product. The way ingredients are listed, the most prevalent ones are listed first. So if it was a product I really wanted to try, and the word was listed last or near the end of the list, I sometimes would just go ahead and try it. But the words...

Petroleum, petrolia, etc.

sulfate, suflonate,

alcohol

fragrance

color pigments(fd&c)

dea(acronym for some big word)

mea (another acronym)

cholorine

propylene glycol

...there's more but basically what i want to see in an ingredient list are words that I recognize and words that describe something I know. for example, extracts. avacodo extract, peppermint extract, coconut extract...i can understand that that is. If the list says 'essential oils' and doesn't name the oils, I don't trust it.

I love carol's daughter's shampoos. But I am not always willing to spend 15 bucks for 8oz of shampoo. If I absolutely had to use regular beauty supply store or walmart shampoo, I preferred cream of nature organic shampoos, and organic root stimulator brand.

I never tried to ACV(apple cider vinegar) rinse but I hear good things about it.

Coming up, conditioning.