Comments on: Baking Soda Experiment

By: Theresa

Theresa — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:28:59 +0000

If ever you get nits/lice again, use Olive Oil! No need to use the nasty pesticide in your hair. The Olive Oil, which is an awesome conditioner too, smothers the lice. Adults and eggs get smothered and die. The trick is lice and their eggs absorb oxygen out of the air to stay alive (go look at a chicken egg and notice the texture, the shell is porous to allow air flow), by smothering them in oil they suffocate. One treatment does it, no follow-up shampoo treatments or anything. Just come them out as normal after that.

By: noshampoo

noshampoo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:39:36 +0000

Hi Guen,

Actually I tried both. I found bicarbonate de soude and it is very different than using baking powder (which is bicarb de soude mixed with cream of tartar). I quite enjoyed the baking powder version, but it seems stronger than just bicarb de soude.

I will give the baking soda another try and see how it goes…

By: Guen

Guen — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:04:14 +0000

Hello,

My guess: you used baking powder, not baking soda. I’m French too. In little enveloppes, it’s baking power, eg sodium bicarbonate plus tartar cream… you don’t want that acid tartar cream on your head! Go to Chinese supermarkets, they have baking soda. Just ask for plain “bicarbonate de soude”. You can as well as to your pharmarcist.

Best regards.

By: noshampoo

noshampoo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:17:45 +0000

Hey Chris,
The reason my head was itchy was the nits! The point of the whole thing was that your hair shouldn’t be itchy. If it is, there is something else going on.

For a full report on exactly how to go noShampoo, read the latest post, the definitive guide to going noshampoo.

Using shampoo at all will really ruin the whole project. The basic idea is that your body really knows how to take take care of itself. The only thing you need is a little perfume occasionally, if you like it.

If, as you said, you like thick strands of hair, noshampoo will certainly work.

-D

By: CorneredBeef

CorneredBeef — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:33:39 +0000

“My head was still itchy, which was the only reason I washed in the first place!”
Do you mean it was useless washing it, or just useless because you just used it once?
“So I did another wash with baking soda…”
Was it better(not itchy) after the second time washing your hair,
or after some more times using baking soda?
I also have another question:
I’m not shampoo free already but I think about it.
I like my hair(male,around 6inch long)sticking a bit together in strands so i don’t use a brush.(Cobain-like)
But when i have all this stuff on my scalp, and I don’t dispense it all over my hair, is that a problem, or is it enough scraping my skin a bit with my fingers?
Hope you can help me, otherwise: trial and error
Thx and greetings from Germany

Chris