Didn't expect that one, eh? I'm doing a tile tub surround for a lady and the shower has been down for four days, it's the only bathroom. She said no big, I've been doing baking soda and vinegar shampoo and I can do that in the sink.

I said "not together?" She said no, in a sequence.

The theory is that commercial shampoos over strip the hair of oil and thus stimulate the oil glands excessively.

She had developed badly itching scalp and this got rid of it. This was interesting news for me as I've often suffered itching scalp. I hate scratching my head in public like some head lice case so I sublimate it and and pretend it's not there.

I've done it 3 times By her instructions. Results encouraging. You mix 1 part baking soda to 3 or 4 parts water, has to be shaken every time - I used a small sports water bottle - the cap is useful for it. Get the hair thoroughly wet and work it - let sit for a minute, some more working, then rinse well. Then spray on a 4 to 1 dilute of apple cider vinger - she says no white wine vinegar - work, let sit for a minute or two, then work and rinse. As for "natural shampoo," baking soda is not exactly natural, isn't usually found in nature. It's a more simple shampoo at any rate.

It cleans plenty well. Found this bit online, not sure how scientific it is:

What I've Learned From Three Years Without Shampoo | The Hairpin

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

No Soap, No Shampoo Experiment

As my experiment drew to a close, I found myself reluctant to return to my old routine of daily shampooing and face treatments. A month earlier, I packed all my hygiene products into a cooler and hid it away. On the last day of the experiment, I opened it up, wrinkling my nose at the chemical odor. Almost everything in the cooler was a synthesized liquid surfactant, with lab-manufactured ingredients engineered to smell good and add moisture to replace the oils they washed away.

I have done this. Baking soda wash and apple cider vinegar for conditioner. Never used apple cider vinegar for anything in my life but it seems to be useful for this. 1/2 cup in a quart of water for each mixture. I use purified or distilled water.

It started with me because I was working around a lot of sodium hydroxide and I think I became sensitized to it. Some soaps made me itch. I experimented with different soaps and it led to trying different hair products.

The baking soda tastes foul and the vinegar smells foul. They both rise off and leave nothing noticeable behind.

I would quit every product in corporate stores if I could.

There's a lot of money in soap. Look at Proctor and Gamble and Amway for starters.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I may have to try this for oily scalp. I'm bald on top, and shave the sides, so there's no hair to mess with. The oily scalp gets to be a real pain in the summer, as it seems to migrate to my face.

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Prepping some does for a show this week. First a bath. They haven't been bathed all winter and are shaggy and dirty. I use Mane and Tail horse shampoo. Then they get clipped to 1/16", then drenched with ACV in water. The ACV is the best conditioner I've found for them. Cures their dry flaky skin and makes them sleek and shiny.

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

This is a great thread.

It makes me happy.

So happy that I do not have itchy nor oily scalp.

Try shaving less often. I shave mine before drill weekend, or in other words about once a month. I get a little oily the first couple days but it goes away as soon as I get a little stubble.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

It drives me nuts when there's hair on my head...even if it's stubble. It's rather uncomfortable at night when I'm wearing the CPAP mask. It's because of that mask that I shave as often as I do.

I wash my head in the shower in the morning, and again in the sink before bed. I shave it every other day or so...the same time I shave my face.

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

When I was a young hippie with long hair, I had trouble keeping my hair the way I liked it. If I shampooed every day or ever every other day, it would get way oily and stringy looking. I know, it does sound like a tragic story, doesn't it? I survived somehow, though it took years of therapy to heal the wounds.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Years of therapy? Drowned your troubles in tonic?

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Every kind of hair tonic known to man. And woman.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K