Most of todays styling products contain an ingredient called silicone. It’s a wonder product that helps to make hair look shiny, healthy, and it helps achieve the “piecey, chunky” texture that defines today’s trends.
BUT… silicone has a dirty secret. It is not water soluble. It stays on the hair and builds up. If you’ve noticed that your hair doesn’t behave or lies flat and tired it may be time to remove the excess build up.
There are lots of shampoos on the market for clarifying your hair. They are best used once a week for fine hair or once a month for thick, coarse hair. They strip the hair of what ever has built up on it. The old wives tale was that your hair got used to a certain shampoo and would respond better when you used a new one every once in a while. That myth is probably based on the build up factor.
A little known secret (and a great money saver, recessionistas) is using a mixture of 50% shampoo (any type will do) and 50% apple cider vinegar. Shampoo this watery stuff carefully on your hair (if it gets in your eyes it wont hurt you but you’ll remember it for a while). Leave it on for 5 min and rinse. Clean shiny hair.
“I’ve been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes. “
Ann Beattie ( I don’t think she new about apple cider vinegar)
I’m going to add apple cider vinegar to my shopping list! I didn’t actually wash my hair in the shower last time, and I loved the results! Thank you again for sharing.
Great!! Thank you for telling me about your success with skipping the shampoo.
Years ago I saw a stylist on tv (can’t recall his name, but he was pretty popular and wore a cowboy hat w/ a feather) that recommended using a baking soda and water paste to do something similar. Do you find the cider vinegar to work better? Do you think one works better than the other? Both are fairly inexpensive.
Yep!! They both work. However, as a girl with course hair I find the paste tough to completely remove. I can remember one time trying a similar formula and having matte hair until I rewashed it.