Everything we use on our body has a potential impact on our health, including our shampoo and conditioner. Have you ever thought there might be dangerous chemicals in your shampoo? Fortunately, natural alternatives exist for your hair and do not represent any danger for them, like this shampoo with baking soda!
Baking soda is an incredibly easy way to clean your hair. It sounds weird but you'll see the results as soon as you've tried it.
Danger of chemical substances
Commercial shampoos can contain a lot of harmful ingredients. The worst of them, the following chemicals:
- Sodium lauryl
- Sodium laureth sulfate
- DEA (Diethanolamine)
- parabens
- Silicone
- Fragrance
The word "Fragrance" may not sound so bad, but on a label, it may mean more than 4,000 different chemical ingredients.
This article will present you a miraculous recipe made of baking soda and cider vinegar that will help you solve all the problems of your hair. They will have more volume and strength than with other shampoos, products and special care for hair.
This method of baking soda and vinegar is cheap, effective, simple and above all without chemicals.
It may be difficult to adjust to the lack of foaming action of the shampoo at first, but it is worth it.
Baking soda shampoo
Start by mixing 1 quantity of baking soda with 3 quantities of water. You can adjust this according to the length of your hair.
Apply the mixture of baking soda and water on your dry or wet hair starting with the roots and massaging them to the ends. Let stand for 1 to 3 minutes then rinse with warm water.
After washing and rinsing with the baking soda mixture, you will need to apply a vinegar rinse.
Rinsing with vinegar
Mix 1 part apple cider vinegar with 4 parts water. To minimize the smell of vinegar, you can add essential oils of lavender, peppermint or rosemary to the vinegar mixture.
Tilt your head back, close your eyes, to avoid the mixture touching the eyes, and pour the mixture on your hair.
If you have long hair, always keeping your eyes closed, tilt your head forward and rinse well to the ends. After a few seconds, rinse with cold water. Cold water helps seal the moisture inside the hair, smooth it and give it shine.
The results will amaze you and you will certainly want to share this with everyone.
Benefits of ingredients
Baking soda
Baking soda dissolved in water helps eliminate any buildup of oils, soaps and other ingredients in typical hair care products. By removing this build-up, baking soda can leave hair clean, shiny and soft.
In addition, the powdered consistency of baking soda makes it an exfoliant, so it can help remove dead skin from the scalp. People concerned about additives in commercial shampoos, or the cost, may prefer baking soda as an alternative.
Apple cider vinegar
Rinse the hair with apple cider vinegar after washing with baking soda, helps restore the balance of the natural pH of the scalp, since the bicarbonate of soda has a high pH of 8.4, while the vinegar has a pH of 4.5 to 5.5.
The majority of hair care products are strongly alkaline. Washing your hair with apple cider vinegar helps balance the pH of your hair and eliminates the accumulation of chemicals caused by these shampoos.
Apple cider vinegar also acts as a protective shield on the surface of each hair shaft. Indeed, your hair becomes healthy, smooth and shiny.
Itching, hair loss and other hair problems are caused by dandruff. The enzymes and acids found in apple cider vinegar help kill bacteria that clog hair follicles and cause dandruff, itching and hair loss.
Caution :
Baking soda is a natural bleach, people who are coloring should avoid it.
