Natural Shampoo Alternatives

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Yes. I use Fiorinel's egg shampoo for about half a year now. Usually I use one egg, but when I heavy oil before I use two.
I don't think I really need the two, but one is not enough, and I do not know what to do with the half of an egg that would remain

I don't use acidic rinse (my hair does not like it) and since I put a bit of citric acid in the shampoo mix, my scalp and hair are just fine.

[HotRag]

Yes. I use Fiorinel's egg shampoo for about half a year now. Usually I use one egg, but when I heavy oil before I use two.
I don't think I really need the two, but one is not enough, and I do not know what to do with the half of an egg that would remain

Make the smallest omelett in the world

I don't use acidic rinse (my hair does not like it) and since I put a bit of citric acid in the shampoo mix, my scalp and hair are just fine.

My hair does not like acidic stuff either. But I found it hard to get a balance of acid and alkalines in the egg blend.
How much citric acid do you use?

Scalps seams to really looove egg wash.

[ALICIA]

Do you think this will help my very thin, balding in the top of my head hair?

I have just recently learned about 'transitioning' and have not had a perm since 4-24-09.

I am asking for help, ladies and thanks so very much for any advice, tips, etc. to get my

hair to grow.

I love this forum, btw!

TIA

Alicia

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Make the smallest omelett in the world

Hehehe

My hair does not like acidic stuff either. But I found it hard to get a balance of acid and alkalines in the egg blend.
How much citric acid do you use?

Scalps seams to really looove egg wash.

Auf, my best answer is "a little". I never measure it, just put a pinch of the powder in... and have not had any scalp or hair problems with using this acidic egg shampoo and just plain tap water with rosemary tea as a rinse...
I tried not using acid in the egg mix, but my scalp feels waxy after two washes or so.

In fact, water here is hard and I tried to use distilled water, but my hair just felt flat. Also, I tried to make acidic rinse with tap water and distilled water, but it felt dry. The best thing for me is tap water and no acid in the rinse.


To sum it up, here is how I see it:
It takes optimisation because water differs in different parts of the world (not that I use water in the recipee, but it is a factor in washing), eggs differ from chicken to chicken, and honey is probably the biggest source of variation in this recipee.

So play around with it, that is the best thing I can say.

[wahmof9]

Shucks, thank you! That's the soapnuts! :-)

Where do you buy the soapnuts?

[Fractalsofhair]

Do you think this will help my very thin, balding in the top of my head hair?

I have just recently learned about 'transitioning' and have not had a perm since 4-24-09.

I am asking for help, ladies and thanks so very much for any advice, tips, etc. to get my

hair to grow.

I love this forum, btw!

TIA

Alicia

Well, it might take quite a while for your hair and scalp to recover from a perm. A gentle shampoo certainly won't hurt the process, but if you're balding from a perm, all you can really do is wait, and maybe try some rograine.

[ratgirldjh]

I love how egg shampoo makes my hair feel. I've used it in the winter but in the summer here no matter how much I rinse or even if I do an acid rinse after my hair starts to smell of egg. In the winter I don't notice it as much - but here in the summer it gets over 100 degrees F every day and I guess this cooks whatever protein is left in the hair somewhere... how do you deal with the smell issue - or are you egg shampoo users all in a colder climate than me?
I would LOVE to use eggs.

also - thinking it might just be my cheap grocery store eggs LOL - i bought fresh eggs from the farmers market - same thing! even when i do an egg mask on my face which i love, i smell the egg smell later.

I also gave a thought that it might just be me (i have a very sensitive nose) but my boyfriend notices it too - and then one day my lawyer asked me what that smell was... so i stopped.

About the only way I have found to combat this is to do an acidic rinse with quite a bit of lavender essential oil in it after - and then I still get whiffs of egg sometimes.

I do see that you Fiorinel use a rosemary rinse afterwards... hmmm rosemary is smellier and i have a rosemary plant... well perhaps i will try this next!

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ratgirldjh, I do not combat the smell of eggs. I do not mind it, thank god.
But my boyfriend really minds it and he keeps complaining about it. (so we made a packt. I will not smoke except when I drink beer, and he will stop complaining about the natural smells )
So if someone finds a good solution, I am very interested.

Btw, it is I who uses the rosemary rinse, and though it smells wonderful, and is plain magic on my hair, it does not dull the egg smell.

Good luck though!

[ratgirldjh]

Well no eggs for me I guess - last time I tried it everyone around me complained and I was starting to feel ill - but I am super sensitive to smells - even good ones and eggs dont smell good to me but they sure make my hair feel nice.

Actually I even had to give up using my egg masks on my face because the lingering odor (in the summer) just got to me after a while... even my hands seemed to retain this odor.

One thing I did find to help was to put a few drops of lavender or rosemary or even better patchouli EO in the egg mixture before using...

But then you just smell EO and eggs LOL

Same thing happened to me when I tried yogurt.

I guess that it is just too hot here most of the year to use protein substances for washing.

[juliesglory]

hi mellie
thanks for the great info on using soapnuts for hairwashing.

i only wash my hair once every 2 weeks, and so i would prefer to have a fresh soapnut liquid ready for hair washing day as opposed to making a huge amount of liquid that would go rancid probably before i would get the chance of using it

how many soapnuts should i use with how much water to make the liquid for one wash of let's say 1 ounce?