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I too started to go gray very early and now color my hair monthly at the salon – I will continue to do it until I can no longer afford to have it done. I have 85% gray so henna is out for me, unless I want to look like an orange which I don’t! Hubby does not want me to have completely gray either yet, so he is happy for me to go to the salon – if my hair is not right I don’t feel good – and hubby deserves a wife who tries to look nice I think – but one day I will let it go….Linda
Update:
I washed with baking soda before applying a new non-sulfate shampoo and conditioner to my hair this morning. My hair is so soft and bouncy, much like the younger hair I remember. I am almost considering NOT doing highlights now!
Thanks for the tip!
I just wanted to add that when I poured the vinegar on my hair it smelled at first but when I rinsed it out it didn’t have that smell. I could feel it working on my scalp though! I also think if it has a smell it is the smell in your o-factories in your nose. The smell seems to linger even though it isn’t really there. Kind of when someone who smokes walks by you. You can’t get that smell out of for a several minutes. If you are a smoker you don’t seem to notice you even smell.
Another note… If you are really gray and you want a color, sometimes blonde is a better choice then mousey gray/or brown. Depending on your complexion and how light your eyebrows have gone grey.
Just sayin’ 🙂
Even though my 5 year old is proof that blondes have more fun, I think I will stick with my darker brown. :). I do have a little auburn tint if you look at it in the sun, but overall it appears dark. Not a lot of gray yet, but there are strands here and there that I feel will only get worse in my forties. :0
Many ladies look beautiful with gray, and I hope to be comfortable with gray hair but probably not until I’m in my 60’s. 🙂
Exactly how do you wash your hair with baking soda? Do you just put some on your head and start rubbing? Or do you dilute it with water first?
Also – if you do color your hair, does the baking soda hurt/strip the color out?
I used to have full, thick hair, but it has grown thinner over the years, especially after the pregnancies. I have an especially thin section on top that looks “balding” to me and I am self-conscious about that…
Thanks!
-Tanya
I dilute it in water. I fill a small squirt bottle with water and 1-2 TBS of B.S. and then squirt it on my scalp a little at a time and rub gently. I don’t squirt it onto the lengths of my hair or rub it into my hair at all. Just my scalp. Then I rinse out while rubbing and spritz the hair with diluted apple cider vinegar. I needed to play around with the proportions and exactly how to use each one in order to find the right ph balance for my hair. It would be hard to say what to do EXACTLY for someone else’s hair. I had a time of trial and error at first. But I think it is worth it.
I found a bunch of information helpful for this topic just by googling it and looking for youtube videos on it as well.
HTH!
-Miranda
I think I’m going to try the Baking Soda! We just moved, and the water here is well water and VERY hard, and is leaving everything with an orange tint from something in the water. So my hair is now highlighted with orange, and I have a film of orange stuff on the top of my hair. It’s quite gross, and the normal shampoo and conditioner are not doing it. Anyone else have any sugestions for hair with really hard water? I think that combined with 4 pregnancies has pretty much killed my hair.
Laura.bora,
I would google ‘washing hair with well water’ and see what comes up. I would definitely not be using it on my hair if it’s colored water. I might consider some sort of sink filter and wash my hair in the sink if needed. Put a shower cap on to bathe afterwards.
Hope the baking soda helps!
Friends of ours have a well and they needed to get a distiller. So, I think all of their water is run through the distiller before it even comes out of any taps. I don’t know how much that costs though. I think the orange water sounds like mineral build up.
Wow – this is a popular topic!
I have a question for those of you who use the baking soda and vinegar method:
I was feeling desperate enough so that while the kids were eating their lunch, I disappeared to take a shower and try this! I did a final rinse with the apple cider vinegar, and when I got out of the shower, my hair was so tangled I couldn’t get a comb through it. When I pulled, it felt like my hair was tearing, and my hair felt very straw-like and stiff. I ended up getting back in to put conditioner in and then rinsed.
What did I do wrong?
Wow, this has NEVER happened to me with this method! If anything, my hair feels softer. How much bs did you use? To much bs will be very drying. Also, you cannot pile your hair on top of your head and scrub with this way, either. I lalways brush my hair before my shower (I had to do this when I used to use normal shampoo, too, though) and make sure that the bs is dissolved in the water bottle first. Then, starting at my hairline along my forhead, I squirt a little bit and rub with fingers into my scalp. I do the same all along the hairline down to the ears and work my way to the back of the head. I always try to get it only on the scalp and the rubbing is only ever done on scalp with the roots of the hair being the ONLY hair that would be rubbed with the bs solution. Rinse it out while rubbing your scalp again in the same way. And always very gently. Then I spray on the diluted apple cider. 1-2TBS to about a cup of water using a spray bottle. This much spray is good for at least two weeks worth. So I don’t use to much at a time. And I leave it on sometimes while I wash the rest of my body before rinsing it out. If I do use to much, my hair actually gets “to conditioned” feeling. Almost oily or stringy, sort of. I have softer hair now, actually, and less staticky (sp?).
Don’t know if any of that will help you or not. Just thought I would break down what I do very specifically and see if it would help identify the problem. Maybe others will be of more help.
Sorry you had such troubles!
Okay – I think I see parts of my problem:
I think that I used an okay amount of baking soda (1 tbsp to a little less than 1 1/2 cups of water in a bottle). I did put it just on the scalp, but I think I probably rubbed too vigorously, and I did pile hair on top of my head.
I also did not rinse out the apple cider rinse afterwards (about 1 tbsp diluted in 2 cups of water) because I thought it was a leave-in.
I’ll try again another time…
Also – my hair tends to be quite dry, especially towards the ends. You don’t find the need for any extra conditioning? Just the apple cider?
Thanks!
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