Let’s see, I left my Lazy Day post saying that I might wash my hair that night with Baking Soda, and I did. I made a watery paste (very watery) using BS, water, and a few drops of peppermint and grapefruit essential oils. The result was decent. The har at the top of my head was shiny and seemed clean, the lower, more permed length of my hair felt… Sticky to the touch. I’m not entirely sure why.
Anyway, that was the day before yesterday, and yesterday I didn’t wash my hair at all.
This morning I washed my hair doing the exact same thing, but this time I decided to use a vinegar rinse afterwards because my hair felt really heavy with a greasy residue, and I’m guessing that’s a mixture of my hair oil with the baking soda, even though I rinsed and rinsed and rinsed. For the vinegar rinse I splashed a bit of distilled white vinegar (that’s all I had in the house) into a cup, added a few drops of my peppermint and grapefruit essential oils, and filled the cup to the top with water and poured it over my scalp and attempted to get it down the length of my hair. Then I rinsed with water again. This time my hair feels a lot lighter. It’s air drying right now, and it feels a lot less sticky, although the permed ends feel dry and crunchy, not really soft. But I will say that the top of my head, where the hair is not really changed by the perm, that feels soft.
I guess I’ll just have to see how it turns out.
