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Automatically translated by machine. Hello and welcome to Friday video number 2.
Today I'm gong to be talking about using baking soda as shampoo.
So baking soda. Firstly, is baking soda the same as baking
powder? No. Not the same thing at all, only use baking
soda also known as bicarb soda. I use mckensie's because it's the cheapest
one. You really don't need to use much each time so for $1.50 you'll probably get a whole
month or more's worth. So step by step, how do you actually use it
as shampoo? #1 don't use shampoo obviously.
Instead of shampoo you would get a little cup of water. I use the lid from James' shaving
cream. Put a couple of spoons in there and then fill the rest up with warm water.
Then I mix it around with my finger until it's mostly disolved and put it through your
hair. Massage it to the roots like your would a
normal shampoo and make sure to get it really close to the roots because that's where most
of the oil and grease is. Then I leave it on there for a couple of minutes,
maybe 3 minutes? I don't really have a clock in my shower so.
Once I'm satisfied that my hair is clean I wash it out.
So that's really it. Afterwards if you want to you can use a conditioner.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. And if I do, I avoid the roots because again
that's usually where my hair gets oily. Using the baking soda took me a while to get
used to because it really doesn't feel like shampoo.
And honestly until you get out of the shower and completely dry your hair it doesn't feel
clean, not even a little bit. When it goes in it's kind of grippy, I guess
is the word, like when you rub two pieces of velvet together and all of the little fibres
catch on each other. When you shampoo you get a lather, this doesn't
lather at all. Also when you shampoo your hair and you dry it it had that light airy
feeling, you know you feel like you're in a Pantene commercial and you're flipping your
hair around and you've got a big fan blowing in your direction to get the perfect hair
flick off to the side. This isn't like that.
Once you dry your hair it feels amazing. It's really soft and smooth. The texture of
my hair feels a lot better now than when I was using shampoo.
I could totally do the commercial with the fan and the wind blowing.
It takes a bit longer to dry than traditional shampoo, I imagine it's because that has special
ingredients to quicken the drying time or whatever and this is just baking soda, nothing
fancy. And that's pretty much it.
With baking soda I don't seem to was as often because it doesn't seem to need it.
I think that's probably to do with the fact that some shampoos strip the natural oils
out of your hair and that's stuff you want in there.
So your scalp maybe overcompensates and makes extra. Again I'm not an expert so I haven't
no idea the science behind this, I just know it works for me.
This seems a bit more gentle though and I don't have to wash as often.
As I mentioned in my previous video on using it as dry shampoo, there were a lot of comments
asking whether it was the same as using talcum powder.
Or baby power. Yes and no. It's the same in that they do both get the job done.
But when you wash it out it comes out a lot easier than talcum powder does.
I've used talcum powder a lot over the last few years.
for people with darker hair, it also doesn't show up as much as talcum powder does.
When you do go to wash it out, because it is cleaning, when you put the water through,
it gives a bit of a clean as is. So you're kind of already one step ahead.
If you want to learn more about using it as a dry shampoo check out my video over here-ish.
In the same way you can kind of use it as a styling agent as it provides grip. Just
a little bit, not hugely grippy but it does give a little bit of texture so it feels fuller
and a little more volumous so it's easier to get volume.
I've found that since using this it's easier to manage when it comes to styling and my
curls seem to last longer and are easier to make.
I can wash and dry my hair, run a brush through it and it actually looks nice and straight
not that pouf it usually is when I wash it. I can't tell you if it will work for you or
not because I don't know all of your individual hair types.
But it's something that's worked really well for my hair and I'm really happy with it and
it's nice and cheap which is great for budget conscious people like me.
The biggest hurdle I had using it was the feeling. I'd read about it online but no one
ever mentioned the feeling of it being in your hair. It doesn't feel traditionally clean.
But once the hair is dry it looks and feels awesome.
The feeling was something I got used to after about a month of using it.
My hair feels stronger and in better than condition before so I'm pretty happy with
it. So that's pretty much, I think that was all
of the questions. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments and I will answer
them as best as I can. If you do try it out, let me know your experiences
in the comments. In other news my bergamot store finally launched.
The charms are now officially online in my etsy store, link below. It's got charms, bracelets,
earrings and you can buy little individual charms if you want to do your own craft projects.
So check it out and let me know what you think. The plushies should be there for you guys
soon but that's a little delayed because we've had some difficulties getting them done overseas.
Fingers crossed I'll be able to have plushies up soon.
The competition I was planning to launch today has been pushed back to next week so I can
put some more prizes in there for you guys. Hopefully I should be announcing it next week
if all goes to plan. Also let me know what you want next Friday's
video to be about. It could be my foundation routine or make up routine or I could show
you guys my make up collection or I don't know.
You guys tell me what you want to see and I'll see if I can do it. I think that's everything
for now. I hope this was a useful video, please check
out the blog post linked in the description for more information and tutorials.
Thanks so much for watching. Bye!