I have now embarked on a new adventure, the road to eliminating commercial products from my personal care (can you add something like..routine?) personal care routine?
These series of blogs will cover how to replace everything from Shampoo/Conditioners to body lotions to skin scrubs with household natural products.
And why is Roseann doing this?
1. Be healthier by eliminating chemicals 2. Reduce & finally eliminate my dependency on unconscious companies
I try everything before I recommend it, this will give you the best options, should you decide to follow.
I also have two other people trying the recipes, Mellisa and Lupita. This way I can present options because what works on me might not work on everyone. These two ladies have been formulating lotions inspiring me to share the information with you.
I hope you will find these blogs informative and life changing.
To start, for the last 3 months I have not used commercial shampoos or conditioners. First I needed to cleanse my hair from years of commercial products with silicone and other chemicals. I used a mixture of Baking Soda and water:
1 tablespoon of Baking Soda 2 cups of water Shake well, then pour on your head while in the shower. Rinse it with Bragg organic Apple Cider Vinegar. I did this twice, four days apart.
Then after I was able to remove the silicone and other product residue from my hair, I started a different protocol:
2 egg yokes
1/4 cup of organic yogurt
1/2 cup of Bragg organic Apple Cider Vinegar (mixture should be 1/3 Bragg + 2/3 water)
After several different mixtures which include but not limited to Beer, I am now using the yoke of an egg with yogurt. A few times a week I have egg whites for breakfast... It was bothering me that I didn't know what to do with the yoke! Don't like any form of waste! Other days I just have yogurt. So I mix 2 yokes with a 1/4 of a cup of yogurt (organic). I mix it and let it sit on my head for 10 - 20 minutes. I bring the Braggs in the shower and just rinse the mixture out of my hair. I'm not concerned about rinsing the Braggs from my hair, its fine if a little is left behind.
The results are wonderful, my hair is shiny, thick and healthy looking. I now have more "great hair days" then not. I'm able to go 4 to 5 days without having to wash it. It never looks greasy, that's what the silicone and other ingredients were doing to my hair, weighing it down with chemicals. Remember what your hair smelled like when you came out of a club when people were allowed to smoke? The commercial chemicals actually attracted pollutants and smells to your hair.
Let me know if anyone tries this and what your results were. Or if you have another recipe I can post, I love having alternatives to Conscious Health and Beauty..
Until next time....
